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Study: CDs Still Overshadow Digital-Music Downloads The CD will remain the dominant format for music distribution in Europe at least until the end of the decade, according to a new study. | 3 |
Dolly #39;s Creator Applies for Human Cloning License Scientists who created Dolly the sheep, the world #39;s first cloned mammal, applied for a license on Tuesday to clone human embryos to obtain stem cells for research into Motor Neurone Disease. | 3 |
French forward Youri Djorkaeff joins Blackburn French forward Youri Djorkaeff joined Blackburn on a short-term deal Tuesday. The 36-year-old former World Cup winner, who has been a free agent since his contract with Bolton expired | 1 |
Turin Unveils Mascots as Countdown Begins Italy revved its marketing engine on Tuesday with the unveiling of two frosty-faced mascots for the 2006 Winter Olympics. Meet Neve and Gliz: a grinning snowball and an upbeat | 1 |
Assassination Of Hamas Leader In Syria Sparks Calls For Revenge Israeli diplomatic and other missions abroad have raised their alert levels in response to threats after the assassination of Hamas terrorist Iz a Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus Sunday. | 0 |
Virgin Mobile update hits shares (FT.com) FT.com - Shares in Virgin Mobile fell back below July's float price on Tuesday as analysts and investors interpreted a trading update from the company as a surprise revenue warning. | 3 |
Cheetahs Flourish on Spanish Plain (Reuters) Reuters - Stalking teddy bears and towels\before retiring to harass the family dog, 12-week-old cheetah\cub Bunjee was blissfully unconcerned by the cameras trailing\him around the Heidenreichs' house. | 3 |
Memo to Carly - HP customers need help! <strong>Letters</strong> I ordered ProLiant servers, but all I got was this lousy fan | 3 |
Rooney Needs to Make Up Ground Wayne Rooney will have to improve considerably on his showing last season if he is to make an impact at Manchester United, according to the Actim Index. | 1 |
Britain's combative Blair refuses to apologise for Iraq conflict (AFP) AFP - A combative Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to apologise for taking Britain into the Iraq war, as he rallied his governing Labour Party to unite and win a third straight term in a general election likely to take place in 2005. | 0 |
INTERVIEW: Sony Chases Rivals in Image Chip Race TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp., the world leader in video equipment, finds itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up in the next battleground for technology used in cameras, video recorders and phones. | 3 |
Sudan's government, rebels call on world to provide 300 million dollars in aid (AFP) AFP - Representatives of the Sudanese government and the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) urged the world community to provide 300 million dollars (244 million euros) in aid to cover emergency needs. | 0 |
Kerry, Bush Votes Could Affect State Races (AP) AP - State Sen. Neil Schuerer is a small-town lawmaker not accustomed to rubbing shoulders with world leaders. But the Republican shared the stage with Dick Cheney during a recent campaign appearance in which he was given a few minutes to talk to the crowd before the star... | 0 |
Greek Plane Diverted to Ireland After Bomb Threat DUBLIN (Reuters) - A Greek plane heading for New York from Athens made an emergency landing in Ireland on Tuesday after a bomb alert -- the second such incident in three days. | 0 |
Indian probe of 'mad cow blood' India orders an investigation into reports it may have received contaminated blood from Britain. | 0 |
Consumer Confidence Dips on Job Worries NEW YORK - Job worries helped push consumer confidence down in September for the second consecutive month, a New York-based private research group said Tuesday. The Consumer Confidence Index fell 1.9 points to 96.8 from a revised reading of 98.7 in August, according to The Con... | 0 |
Americans Forces Strike Fallujah BAGHDAD, Iraq - American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by the militant group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah on Tuesday, and the military said its frequent strikes have taken a toll on the leadership of the Jordanian-born terror leader's network. But in a sign of streng... | 0 |
Upgrades, staffing costs squeeze British IT budgets A U.K. survey finds little money left over for new investment, and that Linux is not leaving its mark on the desktop. | 3 |
With RFID, corporate might makes right Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in Baltimore to push development of controversial tagging technology. | 3 |
Dell, Topspin tout InfiniBand clusters Dell's new servers, which use 96-port TS270 switch and other networking equipment, will be available by Oct. 31, Dell said. | 3 |
Oil Is Steady After Reaching Record \$50.47 on Supply Concern Oil futures were little changed after touching a record \$50.47 a barrel on concern Nigerian rebels will follow through on threats to cut shipments from the fifth-largest supplier to the US. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Delta to cut employee pay 10 pct, CEO declines pay Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said it will reduce executive and employee pay by 10 percent starting in January and its CEO will go unpaid for | 2 |
Motorola Makes Cuts, Focuses On Wireless In a move designed to hone in on its wireless business and reduce operating costs, Motorola is handing out 1,000 pink slips and will take a charge of \$50 million. | 2 |
Why are oil prices so high? LONDONUS crude prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit fresh record highs on Tuesday, hitting \$50.47 a barrel, up nearly 55 percent from the start of the year. | 2 |
Centene expands into Missouri, Kansas markets Centene Corp., the parent company of West Allis-based health maintenance organization Managed Health Services Insurance Corp., said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy two FirstGuard health plans serving a total of 136,000 members in Missouri and Kansas for | 2 |
SEC focusing on drug makers The Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing biotechnology companies as part of a wider effort to ensure that companies don #39;t mislead investors | 2 |
Amazon and Microsoft Join in Lawsuit Against Spammers The joint lawsuit was filed yesterday in federal court in Seattle against Gold Disk Canada and its principals -- Barry, Eric and Matthew Head -- and accuses them of misusing Microsoft #39;s Hotmail | 3 |
-Posted by dan.farber 10:50 am (PDT) Former Microsoft senior vice president Brad Silverberg and some ex-BEA executives are teaming up to launch an open-source company that aims to become the Dell of the softwareindustry. | 3 |
Freescale unveils dual-core PowerPC architecture Freescale, Motorola #39;s semiconductor subsidiary until July of this year, announced first details about its dual-core core strategy for the e600 PowerPC platform. | 3 |
AT amp;T Offers IM, Email and Text Messaging On The Go At an affordable device price of \$99 (after \$30 mail-in rebate) with unlimited messaging plans starting at only \$17.99 per month, Ogo provides customers with a wireless messaging device priced for the typical consumer. | 3 |
Mascots for Turin Winter Olympics Unveiled (AP) AP - Cartoon characters named Neve and Gliz, representing a ball of snow and a block of ice, are the mascots for the 2006 Turin Olympics. | 1 |
Founding father Gerry Snyder feels city government let Expos down MONTREAL (CP) - Ask a dozen Montreal Expos fans why the team is on the verge of departure after 35 years of existence, and you #39;ll get a dozen different answers. | 1 |
Porto experience is no advantage says Chelsea #39;s Mourinho Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes he has no advantage over new Porto boss Vitor Fernandez despite having led the Portuguese side to Champions League victory last season. | 1 |
NBA, NBRA Approve Collective Bargaining Agreement (Reuters) Reuters - The NBA has entered into a new\five-year collective bargaining agreement with the National\Basketball Referees Association (NBRA), thus eliminating the\possibility of having replacement officials work the upcoming\season. | 1 |
Top al-Qaida man dies of heart attack The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon, who was arrested 10 days ago after authorities uncovered a plot to bomb embassies of Italy and Ukraine, and kill diplomats, died of a heart attack Monday, hospital officials and the Interior Ministry said. | 0 |
McAfee updates target 'phishing' New versions of SpamKiller and personal firewall aim to hook phishers, as online fraud continues to grow. | 3 |
NBA, NBRA Approve Collective Bargaining Agreement NEW YORK (Sports Network) - The NBA has entered into a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA), thus eliminating the possibility of having replacement officials work the upcoming season. | 1 |
PalmSource's BlackBerry effort bears fruit The company plans to make available an API that lets Palm OS-powered devices work with BlackBerry wireless e-mail services. | 3 |
Tech industry struggles with age-old conundrum The silver-haired set is a growing yet elusive demographic for IT product engineers and Web site designers. | 3 |
NBA Ratifies Referees Five-Year Contract NBA referees have entered into a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the league, removing the possibility of having replacement officials work the upcoming season. | 1 |
Oil surges to \$50.47 a barrel Oil prices soared to a new record above \$50 yesterday as uncertainties over Nigerian output heightened worries of a severe supply disruption ahead of winter. | 2 |
Branson reaches for the stars Strapped in, flat on their backs, passengers will accelerate to 4000km/h in just 25 seconds. For no more than five minutes they will float about, 130km above planet Earth. | 3 |
Intel Launches Next-Gen Chip After 10 years in the making and multiple delays, Intel released its state-of-the-art 64-bit Itanium microprocessor on Tuesday. The microprocessor, which is designed for servers and workstations, is based | 3 |
Tennis: Spain and the US will square up in Seville for Davis Cup <b>...</b> BARCELONA, Spain : Spain will play the United States in the Davis Cup final in Seville on December 3-5, Spanish tennis federation president Agusti Pujol said. | 1 |
Browns #39; Suggs cleared to play Cleveland Browns running back Lee Suggs may be ready to play his first game of the season Sunday. Suggs, who had been expected to start at running back this season, missed the first three games because of a neck injury. | 1 |
Two Italian, two Iraqi hostages released in Iraq Two Italian aid workers have been released, three weeks after being kidnapped in Baghdad. Also free are two Iraqis abducted at the same time. | 0 |
Protesters interrupt Blair speech Tony Blair #39;s keynote speech to the Labour party conference in Brighton was twice interrupted today. The first interruption came from a lone protester against the war in Iraq, while the second was from pro-hunt demonstrators. | 0 |
Unease in Gulf, Nigeria makes oil, financial markets jittery THERE is eerie nervousness in oil and financial markets amid fears over oil supply as prices are edging towards \$50 (around Rs 2,298) a barrel mark. | 2 |
Mexico-Based Cemex To Buy RMC quot;This is the right acquisition at the right time for Cemex, quot; says Lorenzo Zambrano, chairman and chief executive of Cemex. | 2 |
American Financial to Buy Office Space American Financial Realty Trust on Tuesday agreed to acquire 252 commercial properties from Bank of America NA for a total price of about \$570 million excluding unspecified transaction expenses. | 2 |
Colonial BancGroup buys Union Bank Colonial BancGroup of Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday agreed to acquire Union Bank of Florida in in Sunrise, Fla. Under terms of the deal Colonial BancGroup will acquire Union Bank | 2 |
Hackers Exploit Microsoft's JPEG Flaw (AP) AP - In a harbinger of security threats to come, hackers have exploited a newly announced flaw in Microsoft Corp. programs and begun circulating malicious code hidden in images that use the popular JPEG format. | 3 |
Rocket Plane to Attempt Space Flight (AP) AP - A test pilot in a stubby rocket plane will try to climb more than 60 miles over the Mojave Desert and punch through the atmosphere Wednesday in the first stage of a quest to win a #36;10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism. | 3 |
Half Of Online Viagra Bogus Half of the Viagra sold over the Internet -- often via spam-style blastings that plague mailboxes worldwide -- is fake, a British researcher said Tuesday. | 3 |
San Francisco at San Diego, 10:05 PM SAN DIEGO (Ticker) -- After one final day off, the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants resume their quest to reach the postseason when they begin a three-game series. | 1 |
Italian hostages in Iraq released Two female Italian hostages seized in Baghdad three weeks ago have been freed on Tuesday and are safe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says. | 0 |
Olympics: Powerful moments stir emotions at Paralympic Games ATHENS : As the Athens Paralympics drew to a close 1,001 moments, each more poignant and powerful than the last, rise to the surface in the search for the defining image of these unforgettable Games. | 0 |
Bishops chide Spain over same-sex marriage The Spanish government #39;s plans to legalize same-sex marriage was lambasted by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC reported Tuesday. | 0 |
Briefly: Dell, Topspin tout InfiniBand clusters roundup Plus: Ex-HP exec joins StreamServe board...Credit union beefs up database security...Computer scientists slam e-voting machines. | 3 |
Upgrades, HR costs squeeze British tech budgets A U.K. survey finds that little money is left over for new IT investment and that Linux is not leaving its mark on the desktop. | 3 |
Motorola Plans To Cut 1,000 Jobs Motorola Inc. plans to eliminate 1,000 jobs in the spinoff of its semiconductor unit, the company said Tuesday in a filing with government regulators. | 2 |
RIM releases new BlackBerry in U.S., European markets The new model of Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry e-mail device includes a quad-band phone and Bluetooth. | 3 |
Internet fails to shine for 'silver surfers' The Modern Maturity set is a growing yet elusive demographic for IT product engineers and Web site designers. | 3 |
Italian, Egyptian Hostages Freed in Iraq Two female Italian hostages seized in Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but | 0 |
Euro Disney Strikes Restructuring Deal Euro Disney SCA said Tuesday its lenders have agreed unanimously to extend a debt plan designed to keep the troubled theme park operator afloat. | 2 |
Gunfight At The Artery Wall NEW YORK - Today at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference, AtheroGenics was met with pointed skepticism over trial results for its drug, AGI-1067. | 2 |
Virgin Group Enters US Online-Music Market The online digital-music business became a little more crowded as Richard Branson #39;s Virgin Group launched a music Web site in the US The Virgin Digital service sells songs for 99 cents each | 3 |
Former BEA Execs, VC Heavyweights Launch Open-Source Startup It appears something positive has emerged from the recent mass exodus of executives from BEA Systems. On Tuesday, three former BEA executives, with the help of two venture-capital heavyweights, launched a | 3 |
#39;Dolly #39; scientist seeks human clone licence The British scientist who created Dolly the sheep, has applied for a licence to clone human embryos in the hope of finding a cure for motor neurone disease. | 3 |
PalmSource Smartens Up OS for Mobile Phones Analysts said the smartphone enhancements hold the potential to bring PalmSource into an expanding market that still has room despite early inroads by Symbian and Microsoft. | 3 |
RFID Deadlines Intensify Need To Manage Product Information Enterprises face dual 2005 deadlines relating to RFID and supply-chain data synchronization. Those that haven #39;t moved forward with a product-information-management strategy will be under-prepared to realize RFID #39;s value. | 3 |
Toshiba Trumps iPod with 60 GB Rival All three models to be released use a 1.8-inch hard drive that can hold up to 2,500, 5,000 and 15,000 pieces of music, respectively. | 3 |
Sports briefs for September 28, 2004 US gymnast Paul Hamm planned to return to the United States on Wednesday after resting in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a day following his 11 1/2-hour session before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. | 1 |
Rooney Up and Running Ninety-six days after his last competitive game Wayne Rooney was handed his Manchester United debut in tonights Champions League clash with Fenerbahce. | 1 |
The emergence of the past captains began when the PGA of America Pros: Fits the recent profile (44, past PGA champion, fiery Ryder Cup player); the job is his if he wants it. Cons: Might be too young to be willing to burn two years of play on tour. | 1 |
China: Paralympic powerhouse Athens - Runner-up to the United States by a handful of gold medals at the Athens Olympics, China was the big winner at the Paralympics. | 1 |
Cougars may be 1-3, but they aren #39;t hurting from lack of exposure Pardon me if this is disjointed, but I #39;ve just returned from a hugging party and ... well ... I #39;MA LITTLE WOUND UP!!! 1. Quarterback John Beck #39;s throwing motion is as effortless and aesthetically pleasing as Manny Ramirez #39;s swing. | 1 |
Kidnapped CNN producer released in Gaza An Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN was released Tuesday, a day after he was abducted at gunpoint from a van on a busy street of Gaza City, relatives and Palestinian police said. | 0 |
Blair defends war, urges Labour Party to close ranks and fight for <b>...</b> Prime Minister Tony Blair tried Tuesday to heal divisions over the Iraq war and unite his Labour Party to fight for a historic third term in power, acknowledging that intelligence used to justify the invasion was wrong but insisti... | 0 |
Nigerian Militia Threatens Armed Struggle Militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened on Tuesday to launch a full-scale armed struggle #39; #39; on petroleum-pumping operations in Africa #39;s | 0 |
Lebanese police release detained sisters of dead Al-Qaida detainee Police on Tuesday released two sisters of the alleged al-Qaida leader in Lebanon who died of a heart attack in custody, security officials said. | 0 |
Motorola Cuts 1,000 Jobs Motorola (Quote, Chart) said it would cut 1,000 jobs, a move prompted by the spinout of its Freescale Semiconductor (Quote, Chart) subsidiary. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Snow says no risk of sharp US slowdown Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday that, notwithstanding weaker consumer confidence, he did not think the US economy was at risk of a slowdown. | 2 |
Windows JPEG Exploit Ventures into the Wild The first example of a working program designed to exploit a bug in Microsoft #39;s GDI librarywhich allows malicious code to be run simply by viewing a JPEG imagehas been found in the wild. | 3 |
HP Shutters UDC Hewlett-Packard has decided to break up its Utility Data Center (UDC) program, according to company spokespeople. A long-term initiative dating back to the late 1990s, the UDC program aimed to provide enterprises | 3 |
Rooney scores twice in ManU debut Teenager Wayne Rooney has scored twice in the first 28 minutes of his debut for Manchester United in their Champions League Group D match against Fenerbahce of Turkey at Old Trafford. | 1 |
Expos to DC announcement could come later this week Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Professional baseball appears ready to make a return to the nation #39;s capital, as an announcement could come later this week that the Montreal Expos will be relocated to Washington, DC for the 2005 season. | 1 |
Icy couple to be the faces of 2006 Winter Games The organisers of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics unveiled the event #39;s mascots on Tuesday, a friendly snowball called Neve and her playful ice cube partner Gliz. | 1 |
Palestinian gunmen free CNN producer kidnapped in Gaza strip Palestinian gunmen have released an Israeli Arab producer working for the CNN television network who was kidnapped yesterday in the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Sudan Asks UN to Verify Darfur Refugee Returns Sudan has asked the United Nations to help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes, the UN refugee agency chief said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Report: PC Sales Growing as Economy Rebounds (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - New statistics from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker show that commercial \demand for PCs is rising in tandem with the growing economy, with PC shipment \growth in the second quarter the highest since mid 1999. | 2 |
All I Want for Christmas Is a #36;10 Million Zeppelin (Reuters) Reuters - Baby Boomers, this Christmas season\unleash your inner child and empty your bankbook with\jewel-encrusted Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys at #36;16,000 a\pair. | 2 |
Lockheed's MEADS Wins \$3 Bln Contract WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A transatlantic venture led by Lockheed Martin Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=LMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">LMT.N</A> on Tuesday won a \$3 billion contract to design and develop the Medium Exte... | 2 |
Cendant Nears Deal to Buy Orbitz Travel Site The deal would end a daring experiment by the nation's airlines, which created Orbitz as a competitor to Expedia and online ticketing sites like it. | 2 |
Delta CEO forgoes salary, details pay cuts; Pilots OK retirement <b>...</b> ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc. #39;s chief executive said Tuesday he is giving up his six-figure salary for the rest of the year as he detailed a 10 percent pay cut that will affect senior officials, administrative staff and ticket ... | 2 |
Amazon.com, Microsoft sue spammers, #39;phishers #39; Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have filed several lawsuits in various Seattle courts aimed at computer spammers and quot;phishers quot; who use a look-alike Amazon. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Centene shares rise on acquisition, forecast Centene Corp. (CNC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , which sells Medicaid government health insurance plans, on Tuesday said the acquisition of two new health plans would add to 2005 earnings, pushing its shares up 13 percent. | 2 |
Branson #39;s Virgin Group creating #39;21st-century airline #39; in Nigeria Virgin Group boss Richard Branson has signed an agreement with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to launch a new airline in the African country that will be majority owned by Nigerian investors. | 2 |
Vendor Consortium Works On Common Architecture For Defense Dept Defense wants to remake the armed services, and one of the critical tools would be a global, common networking architecture for US forces. | 3 |
Half of Internet Viagra Could Be Fake - Study As many as half of the Viagra anti-impotence pills sold on the Internet could be counterfeit, British scientists said on Tuesday. They analyzed samples of Viagra sold | 3 |
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