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Motorola to shed 1,000 jobs Telecoms equipment maker Motorola said that it is cutting 1,000 positions globally as it completes the spin-off of its former chip unit, now known as Freescale Semiconductor. | 2 |
Trump offered \$US400m for casino stake An internet casino operator said it is offering Donald Trump \$US400 million (\$561.25 million) for a stake in his ailing casino company. | 2 |
Google may gain on ad sales, IPO firms #39; analysts say Shares of Google Inc., the world #39;s most-used Internet search engine, may continue to rise as the company boosts advertising revenue, research analysts at securities firms that underwrote | 2 |
Creator of Dolly the Sheep Aims To Clone Human Embryos According to geneticist Ian Wilmut, who used cloning to create Dolly the sheep, quot;We owe it to the people who suffer from motor neuron disease and are going to suffer from it in | 3 |
UPDATE 2-Bayern thrash Ajax as Makaay nets hat-trick Bayern Munich #39;s Dutch striker Roy Makaay hit a hat-trick as they romped to a 4-0 victory over Ajax Amsterdam in Champions League Group C on Tuesday. | 1 |
Mogilny has arthroscopic surgery on hip Team general manager John Ferguson Jr. said the procedure was performed by Dr. Marc Philippon at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at St. | 1 |
Titans Lose To Jacksonville Wide receiver Derrick Mason of the Tennessee Titans says the team just is not playing well right now. Fred Taylor ran for a one-yard touchdown with nine seconds left for the victory. | 1 |
United Rentals Sees 3Q Goodwill Charge Equipment rental company United Rentals Inc. on Tuesday said it will likely report a non-cash charge in the third quarter to write down the goodwill of its suffering traffic control business. | 2 |
DaimlerChrysler and Bombardier settle dispute over Adtranz sale Automaker DaimlerChrysler AG and transportation company Bombardier Inc. have settled a dispute over the 2001 sale of railcar maker Adtranz, the companies said Tuesday. | 2 |
Stocks Set to Open Higher Stocks were set to open higher Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow industrials aiming to push back above 10,000 mark. Oil prices remain in focus, with crude reaching above \$50 a barrle in premarket trading. | 2 |
Cendant near \$1.2B deal to buy Orbitz Source says travel and real estate giant is close to reaching agreement to acquire travel Web site. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Travel and real estate company Cendant Corp. | 2 |
Adtranz price slashed 30 as Bombardier settles with <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - Bombardier Inc. will get a \$209-million-US reduction in the price it paid DaimlerChrysler AG in 2001 for the German company #39;s rail equipment division. | 2 |
Schwarzenegger OKs Ban on Paperless Voting (AP) AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law requiring that all electronic voting machines produce paper records of every ballot cast, beginning in 2006. | 3 |
US House Passes Bill Targeting Net Song Swappers (Reuters) Reuters - Users of Internet "peer to peer"\networks, already dodging lawsuits from the recording industry,\could face up to three years in prison under a bill passed by\the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. | 3 |
For schools, Apple offers special iMac G5, eMac (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple has a habit of quietly releasing special Macintosh models for schools and colleges. There were, for example, the Power Mac 5000 line and the G3 All-in-One Mac for education (both of which resembled early and somewhat pedestrian precursors t... | 3 |
Stocks Up on Caterpillar, Oil Companies NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks staged a late rally on Tuesday after Caterpillar Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CAT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CAT.N</A>, the world's largest maker of heavy equipment, raised its revenue ou... | 2 |
Caterpillar Sees 25-30 Pct. Revenue Rise CHICAGO (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CAT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CAT.N</A>, the world's largest maker of heavy equipment, boosted its 2004 revenue outlook on Tuesday, citing strong demand... | 2 |
SpaceShipOne Going for X Prize Wednesday By JOHN ANTCZAK MOJAVE, Calif. (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 \$10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism... | 3 |
Exploring the Final Frontier NASA -- When the National Research Council recommended Solar System exploration goals for 2000-2010, the number one priority was sending a probe to explore Pluto and an area just beyond it known as the Kuiper Belt. NASA plans to make that goal a reality... | 3 |
Storm Stress Hitting Many Floridians By JILL BARTON WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- It's not just roofs that have come apart and walls that are falling down... | 3 |
New defense consortium aims for greater systems interoperability The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, an international group of 28 defense-oriented companies, hopes to create a network-centric framework that allows a variety of communications and information systems and sensors to interact globally. | 3 |
EPCglobal: Users to get RFID progress update IBM, HP, Sun and Manhattan Associates head the list of vendors launching new products and services at this week's EPCglobal U.S. Conference 2004 in Baltimore. | 3 |
Munich set to approve Linux despite patent worries More than a year after the German city moved to abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux, city councilors are finally ready to vote on the switch. | 3 |
Government panel says cybersecurity mandates not needed Despite real threats and little sense of urgency by many company executives, now is not the time for the U.S. government to mandate cybersecurity standards to private industry, a panel of of government officials said. | 3 |
Bank of America to deploy 180,000 IP phones Bank of America has unveiled plans to eventually put an IP phone on every employee's desktop -- a three-year, corporatewide IP telephony rollout that involves about 180,000 phones. | 3 |
Compuware readies tools for Microsoft apps development It targets application performance, code quality and security. | 3 |
Dell introduces new compact desktop PC It's the first Dell PC to feature a multiformat expansion card reader. | 3 |
I2 sets up software development operation in Beijing Composite applications require user interface work in native language, company says. | 3 |
Network emulator eases WAN pain Company says replicating network latency, bandwidth and packet loss problems enables better lab testing. | 3 |
Microsoft open sources Web authoring application SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its flirtation with open source, Microsoft Corp. on Monday posted the code of a little-known collaboration application to open-source development site SourceForge.net. | 3 |
Turner to Provide Content for Net TV Company SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Akimbo Systems Inc., a startup that plans to deliver video over the Internet to television sets, has signed a deal for mainstream content from Time Warner Inc... | 3 |
US consumer confidence slips for second straight month: job <b>...</b> Job worries helped push consumer confidence down in September for the second consecutive month, the Conference Board reported Tuesday. | 2 |
Delta Air cutting some wages 10 ATLANTA Delta Air Lines is cutting the pay of executives, administrative staff and ticket and gate agents by 10 percent, increasing the shared cost of health care coverage and making changes to retirement benefits as part of its turnaround plan. | 2 |
Motorola cutting 1,000 jobs Motorola Inc. announced Tuesday plans to cut 1,000 jobs worldwide and take a charge of \$50 million for severance benefits. The job cuts are part of a restructuring resulting from the spin off of its semiconductor division into Freescale Semiconductor. | 2 |
Update 1: Jury Orders Medtronic to Pay \$110 Million A federal court jury on Tuesday ordered a Medtronic subsidiary to pay about \$110 million in a dispute between the company and a doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies. | 2 |
Microsoft, Amazon Team Against Phishers Seattle-area neighbors Amazon.com and Microsoft today announced the filing of several lawsuits in connection with spoofing and phishing scams that deceive consumers and misuse Amazon #39;s brand name. | 2 |
JoS. A. Bank 3Q Profit Rises 19 Percent Men #39;s apparel retailer Joseph A. Bank Clothiers Inc. on Monday reported third-quarter profit climbed 19 percent as results benefited from growth in catalog and Internet sales. | 2 |
13 Things We Can Expect From Ric Virgin CEO Richard Bransons Virgin Space Ship Enterprise Is Set To Set The World On Fire. We Dose Him With Cold Water With Our Rundown Of Things To Expect With The Launch Of Virgin Galactic. | 3 |
JPEG Exploit Hits Usenet, Worm Close Behind An exploit attacking the most recent Windows bug is circulating on Usenet, security experts said Tuesday, that crashes machines, yet another indicator that attackers will chase the vulnerability until they #39;ve launched mass mailing-style worm-based attacks | 3 |
Yahoo Working On New Design Yahoo unveiled new versions of its Front Page and My Yahoo, showcasing enhancements in design and functionality to both. Beta versions of both pages will be rolled out on a phased basis beginning today. | 3 |
Health Highlights: Sept. 28, 2004 About half the Viagra sold on the Internet could be fake, according to University of London researchers. The scientists used near infrared (NIR) microscopy to check the ingredients of various samples of Viagra that were purchased online. | 3 |
EPCglobal One Year Later Sept. 27, 2004This week EPCglobal US, the US chapter of EPCglobal, holds its second annual user conference and celebrates EPCglobals anniversary, as well as its own. | 3 |
Soccer: Rooney guns down Turks with hattrick on Man United debut MANCHESTER, England : Wayne Rooney opened his Manchester United career in spectacular fashion, scoring a hattrick as his new team thrashed Turkish champions Fenerbahce 6-2 in a Champions League Group D tie. | 1 |
ARON ON COWBOYS: Dallas plays better, but still scraping out wins IRVING, Texas - They never trailed and didn #39;t have any turnovers. They made five sacks and got strong play from a rookie cornerback forced into action when a starter was hurt. | 1 |
Sparta Prague 1-2 Lyon: FT Report Sylvain Wiltord #39;s second half goal gave Olympique Lyon a 2-1 win over Sparta Prague on Tuesday and handed the French side their first win in Group D of the Champions League. | 1 |
Just in time the Cubs put it all together in win over Reds A message on a dry-erase board greeted the Cubs in their clubhouse Monday and explained how they should approach the final days of the regular season. | 1 |
Coming soon Awesome foursome, starring Vijay Singh NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 28: Local golf fans are in for a treat: For the first time ever, the sports top-ranked player will be in India. | 1 |
Lyon find their Sylvain lining REVITALISED former French international striker Sylvain Wiltord hit the winner in Lyon #39;s 2-1 Champions League victory at Sparta Prague in a virtuoso display contrasting sharply with his fruitless time at Arsenal. | 1 |
Nigeria #39;s oil rebels fuel fears of global shortage A revolt in the African state is threatening to disrupt the country #39;s most important export. Christian Allen Purefoy reports from Lagos on the latest conflict driving up the price of crude. | 0 |
Palestinian PM Urges Tactical Rethink in Conflict Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie marked the anniversary of a Palestinian uprising against Israel on Tuesday by calling on both sides to rethink tactics that have brought four years of bloodshed. | 0 |
Iraq: Italian Hostages Released ROME (CBS) The Arab television network Al-Jazeera announced that two Italian hostages were released Tuesday in Iraq. Italian news reports said Premier Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed the release. | 0 |
Clear Channel Selects Fox to Supply Radio News Clear Channel Radio, the largest US radio station chain, has selected Rupert Murdoch #39;s Fox News Radio as the main news supplier for about 100 of its news/talk stations, the companies said on Monday. | 2 |
News: House votes to make video cameras in movie theaters a federal crime The Associated Press By Ted Bridis | 3 |
Infocus: Defeating Honeypots : Network issues, Part 1 The purpose of this paper is to explain how attackers behave when they attempt to identify and defeat honeypots, and is useful for security professionals to deploy honeypots in a more stealthy manner. | 3 |
Report: French Hostages in Iraq to Be Freed Soon (Reuters) Reuters - A man Al Arabiya television said was\negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage\in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an\agreement had been reached to free them soon. | 0 |
Italy Rejoices As Hostages Released (AP) AP - A relieved Italy broke into celebration after two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago were released Tuesday, arriving home hours later aboard a private jet. | 0 |
U.S. Official Sees No N.Korea Talks Before U.S. Vote (Reuters) Reuters - North Korea has apparently decided\against holding six-party talks on dismantling its suspected\nuclear arms programs until after the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential\election, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Drivers, those who heat with oil, to feel the most pain from crude oil hike (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - With the price of crude oil continuing its summertime climb to hit a record high of #36;50 US per barrel this week, Canadian consumers are feeling the pinch at the gas pumps and gearing up for a... | 0 |
Wavering Voters Anti-Iraq, Wary of Kerry (AP) AP - In an election where most voters have already chosen sides, the presidency could be decided by a small slice of America in the mushy middle #151; wavering voters who are more likely than others to question President Bush's honesty and think the war in Iraq was a mista... | 0 |
Tough Quarter for Circuit City Circuit City (CC:NYSE - news - research) Monday said same-store sales fell 4.3 in the third-quarter, attributing the decline to decreased promotions as well as weaker sales of music and movie software and wireless products. | 2 |
Observers Foresee Snags in U.S. Election (AP) AP - Problems loom for the presidential election including voting equipment changes that could delay the outcome past Nov. 2, a group of international observers said Tuesday in a report. | 0 |
Lawmakers Optimistic on Spy Agency Overhaul (Reuters) Reuters - Key lawmakers said on Tuesday they\were optimistic of quick approval by Congress for reforms of\the U.S. intelligence services including a powerful new\director, despite disputes between the Senate and the House of\Representatives. | 0 |
Report: French Hostages in Iraq to Be Freed Soon DUBAI (Reuters) - A man Al Arabiya television said was negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an agreement had been reached to free them soon. | 0 |
AmerisourceBergen to Boost Flu Vaccine AmerisourceBergen Corp. (ABC) said on Monday it has signed a 10-year agreement with ID Biomedical Corp. (IDB) of Canada to distribute ID Biomedical #39;s flu vaccine in the United States. | 2 |
U.S. Official Sees No N.Korea Talks Before U.S. Vote WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has apparently decided against holding six-party talks on dismantling its suspected nuclear arms programs until after the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Falluja faces 'decisive action' Iraq's interim prime minister says decisive military action may soon be carried out in the rebel city of Falluja | 0 |
'American Taliban' Seeks Commuted Sentence SAN FRANCISCO - John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the Taliban. His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said that Lindh was fighting alongside the Taliban in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he is not a te... | 0 |
Peru Coca Growers Briefly Hold Tourists Coca growers protesting government plans to eradicate their cocaine-producing crop briefly held a group of European tourists visiting Inca ruins in the Andean city of Cuzco Tuesday, police said. | 0 |
Briefly: Alvarion expands wireless broadband in China roundup Plus: .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches...IBM launches business research group...Verbatim to make discs with HP labeling feature. | 3 |
Caterpillar Boosts 2004 Sales View Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday raised its full-year sales expectations, as stronger demand in North and South America fueled a sharp increase in global machine and engine sales. | 2 |
Motorola sends 1,000 drones packing Motorola plans to axe 1,000 workers across a number of business units, hoping to reduce costs as it refocuses on its wireless business. | 2 |
Investment Firm Sells All MCI Shares The investment firm which said it may buy more than half of MCI Inc. #39;s shares has now sold all of its holdings in the telephone company for a quick profit, raising doubts about whether the courtship was sincere or designed to stoke interest in the stock. | 2 |
Microsoft, Amazon file phishing, spamming lawsuits SEPTEMBER 28, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. today said they have filed one joint and several separate lawsuits against companies and individuals accusing them of trying to defraud | 2 |
SEC Accuses Former NextCard Executives Securities regulators are suing the management team behind the rapid rise and fall of online credit lender NextCard Inc., alleging the company #39;s top executives cooked the books and then scrambled to sell their stock before the ruse unraveled into | 2 |
Oil soars above US\$50 to a new high CRUDE oil prices surged past US\$50 a barrel for the first time yesterday to a new record high, raising concerns that higher energy costs could slow the global economy next year. | 2 |
Vermeil's Friends Back Troubled Coach (AP) AP - Since his Kansas City Chiefs fell to 0-3, Dick Vermeil has gotten phone calls and e-mails sending words of encouragement. | 1 |
Raptors Coach Doesn't See Carter As Issue (AP) AP - Vince Carter wants out of Toronto, but new Raptors' coach Sam Mitchell doesn't think it will be an issue when training camp opens next week. | 1 |
Branson reaches for the stars in latest venture LONDON - Britain #39;s Sir Richard Branson reinforced his reputation as an entrepreneurial showman by announcing a US\$100 million (S\$170 million) plan to take well-heeled passengers, with him possibly being among the first, for a sub-orbital ride into space. | 3 |
#39;JpegOfDeath #39; Using Windows Weakness To Spread Trojan Security firm F-Secure warned that the latest Windows vulnerability appears to be attracting more than the typical interest among the hacking community and that given the speed at which the | 3 |
Half Of Online Viagra Bogus often via spam-style blastings that plague mailboxes worldwide -- is fake, a British researcher said Tuesday. Dr. Nic Wilson of the School of Pharmacy | 3 |
PalmSource Targets Smartphones Looking to compete with the likes of Symbian and Microsoft, PalmSource is unveiling its new operating system geared specifically for the creation of smartphones. | 3 |
Oracle looks beyond big-ticket contracts This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Oracle has begun selling business applications software to small companies in conjunction | 3 |
When the Sun lost its heat Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today #39;s global warming. | 3 |
Users Hamper Information Security Employees still pose the biggest corporate security threat, while IT systems are the main corporate security focus, reports audit and business advisory firm Ernst amp; Young in its latest Global Information Security Survey. | 3 |
Chicago Bears Sign QB Chad Hutchinson (AP) AP - The Chicago Bears signed former Dallas quarterback Chad Hutchinson to a two-year contract Tuesday as insurance after Rex Grossman was lost for the season with a knee injury. | 1 |
American Express Cship: Woods eyes fourth title after Vijays <b>...</b> LONDON: Three-times winner Tiger Woods bids for a third successive title at this weeks WGC-American Express Championship in Kilkenny, Ireland. | 1 |
Time now for boring Arsenal LONDON - Entertaining football in the Premiership, boring in the Champions League. That is the key to Arsenal #39;s success, insists Robert Pires. | 1 |
New Raptors coach doesn #39;t think Carter will be a distraction Vince Carter wants out of Toronto, but new Raptors #39; coach Sam Mitchell doesn #39;t think it will be an issue when training camp opens next week. | 1 |
Hope lingers at Olympic Stadium as Expos set for possible last <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - A large crowd is expected at Olympic Stadium for what may be the last home game for the Montreal Expos on Wednesday night, but who knows if the mood will be that of a party or a funeral? | 1 |
Twins-Yankees Game Postponed by Rain (AP) AP - The game between the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees on Tuesday night was postponed by rain. | 1 |
Misgivings from Jordan on Iraq vote King Abdullah II of Jordan said in an interview published Tuesday that he thought it was impossible under quot;the chaos which Iraq knows today quot; to go ahead with elections there scheduled for January, and that if the vote were held quot;the extremists quot; would win. | 0 |
Two Arrested in Death of US Journalist Two Chechen men suspected of taking part in the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov have been arrested, police said Tuesday, and one commentator cited his interviews with a rebel leader as a possible motive. | 0 |
US forces launch airstrikes in Fallujah, Sadr city US forces launched Tuesday a series of air strikes on Fallujah and Sadr city northeast of Baghdad. Residents in Fallujah say that US aircrafts launched two rounds of attacks on the city, but the US military | 0 |
3-1 Notre Dame Unfazed by Being Unranked (AP) AP - Only one other time has Notre Dame been 3-1 and unranked. | 1 |
Dottie Pepper to Join Golf Channel Next Year (AP) AP - Two-time major champion Dottie Pepper is moving to the broadcast booth next year, signing a contract with The Golf Channel to be a lead analyst for its tournament coverage. | 1 |
San Francisco's Candlestick Renamed Monster Park SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Candlestick Park, home of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team, was renamed "Monster Park" on Tuesday in a \$6 million deal with an electronics cable company. | 1 |
Cell phone talker arrest refuels etiquette debate Cell phones in public are annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem? | 3 |
High oil prices may slow US economy, won't cause recession: experts (AFP) AFP - The surge in crude-oil prices to 50 dollars a barrel is likely to hold back the US economy but probably not cause a recession, analysts say. | 2 |
Cendant Near Deal to Buy Orbitz PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CD.N</A> is nearing a deal to buy online travel site Orbitz Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investo... | 2 |
Delta to Cut Wages 10 Percent CHICAGO (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DAL.N</A> said on Tuesday it will cut wages by 10 percent and its chief executive will go unpaid for the rest of the year, but it... | 2 |
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