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Cendant in talks to buy Orbitz for \$1 billion Cendant Corporation, the travel and property services company that owns Avis and Budget, is in talks to acquire Orbitz.com, an online travel company, in a deal valued at around \$1 billion. | 2 |
Virginia Gets New Tech Chief After nearly three years as deputy secretary of technology for the commonwealth of Virginia, Eugene Huang next week will step up to be Gov. | 3 |
When staff can be more dangerous than hackers COMPANIES here more concerned with preventing computer viruses from attacking them, are neglecting their biggest information security threats - their employees and business partners. | 3 |
The Moog Synthesizer Makes a Comeback A growing number of contemporary musicians and techno enthusiasts have reignited interest in the Moog, which can synthesize any sound imaginable. | 3 |
Report: Cendant near deal to buy Orbitz Shares of Orbitz (ORBZ) jumped more than 25 in after-hours trading Tuesday on reports that the travel and real estate company Cendant (CD) is close to an agreement to buy the online travel site for about \$1. | 2 |
Caterpillar boosts 2004 revenue forecast Shares of Caterpillar (CAT) jumped more than 3 Tuesday after boosting its 2004 revenue outlook Tuesday, citing continued strong demand. | 2 |
SourceLabs Gets Venture Funding quot;There is clearly a lot of pent-up momentum, quot; says SourceLabs #39; Cornelius Willis. quot;Companies want to get off of proprietary technology, but have been hesitant because of the lack of support. | 3 |
Sun Expands RFID Testing, Tools After setting up an initial RFID test center in Dallas last May, Sun Microsystems Inc. will follow up with a similar facility somewhere in Scotland, said Vijay Sarathy, group marketing manager for RFID at Sun. | 3 |
Hamm, attorneys argue to keep gold An exhausted but relieved Paul Hamm will take today to relax in Lausanne, Switzerland, then fly home to the USA on Wednesday, hoping to leave the past and start concentrating on the future. | 1 |
7 hostages released by Iraqi captors but violence continues Iraqi kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. | 0 |
Blair unveils a 10-point policy plan as he sets out vision for <b>...</b> Tony Blair pledged to create an quot;opportunity society quot; in which everyone had quot;an equal chance to succeed quot; yesterday as he outlined the policies he would introduce if Labour wins an historic third term in power. | 0 |
Disbelief as Chechens held for Russian editor #39;s murder Russian police claimed yesterday that one of the country #39;s most brutal and enigmatic contract killings - the drive-by shooting of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov in July - had | 0 |
VIEW: Islam and Turkeys EU membership Ijaz Hussain In its ardent desire to be part of Europe, modern Turkey jettisoned its Islamic character in favour of secularism about eight decades back; was in denial of its rich Islamic past and broke ranks with the Muslim world in its quest for a European identity. | 0 |
Offshore company offering US\$400M to bail out Trump Hotels amp; <b>...</b> An Internet casino operator said Tuesday it is offering Donald Trump \$400 million for a stake in his ailing casino company. Casino Fortune, a Trinidad-based company, said it has approached | 2 |
Hicks Muse pays \$194 million for ConAgra unit DALLAS ConAgra Foods will get 194 (M) million dollars for selling its minority interest in Swift Foods to Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst. | 2 |
Viagra bought online #39;often fake #39; Half of men buying the impotence drug Viagra online are getting counterfeit tablets, study findings suggest. Dr Nic Wilson from the University of London tested Internet-sold samples using a new technique that accurately spots the ingredients of tablets. | 3 |
BoSox #39;s Astacio, Yanks #39; Halsey suspended NEW YORK - Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio and New York Yankees pitcher Brad Halsey were each suspended Tuesday for three games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball after being ejected from Bostons 11-4 win over the weekend. | 1 |
North Korea should stop boasting and return to negotiating table <b>...</b> The United States urged North Korea Tuesday to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula. | 0 |
NIGERIA: Militia group vows to attack oil workers if firms stay in <b>...</b> PORT HARCOURT, 28 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - An ethnic militia group in Nigeria #39;s southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days. | 0 |
High flyers aiming for the stars Some of the country #39;s richest businessmen said yesterday they couldn #39;t wait to splash their cash on the first commercial flights into orbit. | 3 |
Joy in Italy as hostages freed : Two Italian women aid workers and their two Iraqi colleagues abducted in Baghdad have been freed after difficult negotiations, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a delighted parliament today. | 0 |
Nader Supporters Lose Supreme Court Appeal (AP) AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch bid to put Ralph Nader on Oregon's election ballot. | 0 |
Supreme Court to Review Taking Property for Development (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on\Tuesday that it would decide whether the government can take a\person's home or business for a private development project\intended to boost tax revenues and revitalize a local economy. | 0 |
Tourist Hostages Freed from Inca Temple in Peru LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian special forces on Tuesday freed 20 foreign tourists who were briefly taken hostage by protesting coca growers in an Inca temple in the southern city of Cuzco, police said. | 0 |
Unrest hampers Haitian flood aid The UN asks for extra forces to police storm-hit Gonaives, amid a breakdown in law and order has collapsed. | 0 |
X-Prize craft set for space shot The race for the \$10m Ansari X-Prize begins in earnest on Wednesday as SpaceShipOne prepares to rocket to more than 100km above the Earth. | 0 |
Crude Oil Prices Surpass \$50 Per Barrel Crude oil surpassed \$50 a barrel for the first time and analysts said Tuesday that prices could keep rising because of a sharp rise in global demand, tight supplies and threats to output in petroleum-producing nations such as Iraq and Nigeria. Homeowners and energy-intensive... | 0 |
Kidnappers Release Seven Hostages in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S... | 0 |
UPDATE 1-Trump casinos aim to set restructuring course soon Donald Trump #39;s casino company expects to decided in the next couple of weeks whether it can reach a new debt restructuring deal with bond holders, sell assets or whether Trump will take the company private, executive vice | 2 |
Mets Beat Braves 2-1 to Open Twinbill (AP) AP - Gerald Williams and Eric Valent hit solo home runs to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday. | 1 |
Warning over fake Viagra Half the Viagra tablets sold on the internet may be fakes, the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester was told yesterday by London University researchers who have developed a way of identifying imitations. | 3 |
Microsoft Makes Its Third Contribution To Open-Source Site Microsoft Corp. has contributed its FlexWiki collaboration tool to SourceForge.Net, the third release from the software giant to the open-source development site, both organizations said Tuesday. | 3 |
FIFA to Take Action Against France, Italy, Netherlands for not <b>...</b> The International Football Federation says it will pursue disciplinary action against France, Italy and the Netherlands for not handing down tough penalties against players who use drugs. | 1 |
Four dead in Argentine high school rampage A high school student wielding a 9mm pistol shot and killed four classmates and wounded five more today in Argentina #39;s worst school rampage, police said. | 0 |
Twins-Yankees Game Postponed by Rain The game will be made up as part of a Wednesday doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium. | 1 |
McNair Our of Hospital Tennessee quarterback Steve McNair is released from the hospital Tuesday morning after a two-night stay with a bruised sternum. | 1 |
Edelin Ruled Ineligible Syracuse point guard Billy Edelin has been declared ineligible for the first semester of the academic year because he does not meet NCAA academic eligibility requirements, school officials said Tuesday. | 1 |
Astacio, Halsey Suspended Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio and Yankees pitcher Brad Halsey were each suspended Tuesday for three games and fined an undisclosed amount. | 1 |
O's-Blue Jays Postponed The Baltimore Orioles-Toronto Blue Jays game for Tuesday night has been canceled and rescheduled for Wednesday as part of a doubleheder. | 1 |
Red Hat hates money, which makes it better than Sun <strong>Letters</strong> <cite>Reg</cite> shill disgusts free software fans | 3 |
Google Shares Hit New High SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of newly public Google Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GOOG.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GOOG.O</A> on Tuesday hit a new high and posted their largest single-day percentage gain after five investment... | 2 |
Clashes as Iran Islamic fund fails One person was killed and 18 injured in clashes in Iran linked to the collapse of an Islamic loan fund, Iranian state TV reports. | 2 |
Briefly: Tech firms rally against copyright bill roundup Plus: .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches...Alvarion expands wireless broadband in China...IBM launches business research group. | 3 |
Cell phone talker's arrest stirs etiquette debate Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem? | 3 |
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future Imagine getting more than a dozen seasons of Homer and Bart all on one disc. Or, sure, you could back up a terabyte of corporate data. | 3 |
Mercury Interactive unveils a tool to let users, not just IT, test applications In an effort to reduce the cycle time between application design and testing and when the application is put into production, Mercury Interactive introduced this week Mercury Business Process Testing. The application will be part of the Mer... | 3 |
Branson #39;s tilting trains hit by technical snag LONDON: In an unfortunate coincidence for Britain #39;s favourite entrepreneurial billionaire-showman, the promise to offer the world #39;s first commercial space flights in less than three years, has hit its first stumbling block a dismal transport record back | 3 |
MS Fights SourceForge, Loses, and Gives Gift GotDotNet? Depends on who you talk to. Microsoft #39;s answer to SourceForge has been as trouble-free as a baby. Who #39;s been dropped. | 3 |
His house damaged by Hurricane Jeanne, Singh pulls out of AmEx COUNTY KILKENNY, Ireland (PA) -- Hurricane Jeanne has led to world No. 1 Vijay Singh pulling out of this week #39;s WGC-American Express Championship at Mount Juliet. | 1 |
Offensive Linemen Looking for Redemption ATHENS - Daniel Inman went home to North Carolina this weekend and tried to get away from football. It didn #39;t work. quot;The whole time I was at home, I was thinking of this game, quot; Daniel Inman said. | 1 |
Players have fun in new 4-on-4 league When Randy Gumbley called Rick Dudley last month, the founder of the Original Stars Hockey League asked the former NHL Florida Panthers general manager to be commissioner. | 1 |
qualifiers to deplete MLS In the battle between Major League Soccer and the national teams of several players over the coming weeks, there will be likely few winners. | 1 |
Embattled Blair pushes for third term Here we are again .. my toughest week yet since the last one ... and before the next one, said the ever-embattled but resolute British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the start of a | 0 |
Argentine teen shoots dead four classmates A 15-year-old youth opened fire on classmates at his school in southern Argentina, killing four students and injuring five others, authorities said. | 0 |
First Look: LCD Adds a Dimension to the Desktop Sharp's LL-151-3D offers stereoscopic mode for viewing 3D models, but it'll cost you. | 3 |
Telecom Italia buys mobile stake Telecom Italia is poised to pay 20bn euros for the 44 stake it does not already own of its mobile unit TIM. | 2 |
Google shares hit new high, analysts bullish Shares of newly public Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday hit a new high and posted their largest single-day percentage gain after five investment | 2 |
Mourinho: No love lost when we play old team Porto LONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists there will be no love lost when he comes face to face with Porto, the Champions League winners he quit. | 1 |
Gibbs bothered by questionable Monday night calls Apparently even a Hall of Fame coach doesn #39;t get a break from the officials. Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs on Tuesday reviewed the tape of the previous night #39;s loss to the Dallas Cowboys and determined he was on the wrong side of quot;two awful calls. | 1 |
Ratliff signs extension with Portland Portland, OR (Sports Network) - The Portland Trail Blazers signed center Theo Ratliff to a five-year contract extension on Tuesday. | 1 |
Google Shares Hit New High (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of newly public Google\Inc. on Tuesday hit a new high and posted their\largest single-day percentage gain after five investment banks\issued bullish reports on the leading Web search provider. | 3 |
First Look: LCD Adds a Dimension to the Desktop (PC World) PC World - Sharp's LL-151-3D offers stereoscopic mode for viewing 3D models, but it'll cost you. | 3 |
Sun Expands RFID Testing, Tools (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Its next test center will be in Scotland, the company said at EPGglobal, where it also announced its first RFID toolkit and an RFID warehouse management solution. | 3 |
UC Berkeley slows speed of light to improve networking Optical fiber can deliver data fast, sometimes too fast. Slowing light might make some networking bottlenecks vanish. | 3 |
New avian flu cases confirmed in Thailand, human transmission <b>...</b> Sep 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Thailand #39;s avian influenza outbreak is drawing widespread international attention with the confirmation of two more human cases, one of which opens the possibility of human-to-human transmission. | 0 |
Plane diverted to Ireland AN Olympic Airways plane bound for New York with 295 passengers aboard was being diverted to Shannon airport in Ireland after an Athens newspaper received warning of a bomb on board, a company spokesman said. | 0 |
Jordan #39;s king: Iraq elections impossible PARIS -- The Jordanian monarch said in an interview published Tuesday that elections in Iraq are impossible in the current chaos and that he sees no chances of improvement in the short term. | 0 |
New Toshiba notebooks highlight long-running trend SAN FRANCISCO - Toshiba Corp.'s new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks, introduced on Tuesday, are further evidence that U.S. consumers still have yet to embrace the mobility offered by Intel Corp.'s newer mobile processors. | 3 |
Web Gaming Changes Social Interactions Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Chip Collier was on a mission. "I really gotta stop bleeding and dying," the 24-year old said as he slouched in front of his computer in his ninth-floor Chicago apartment. "I'm really horrible about not paying attention to my battle fa... | 3 |
Former Foes Russia, Turkey Eye Era of Warmer Ties ANKARA (Reuters) - Russia and Turkey, putting to rest lingering Cold War tensions, said Monday it was time their political ties caught up with their booming economic links. | 0 |
Survey: Net File-Sharing Doesn't Hurt Most Artists Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work\despite online file-trading services that allow users to copy songs and other material for free, according to a study released on Sunday. | 3 |
UPDATE 1-Coeur throws in towel on Wheaton bid Coeur d #39;Alene Mines Corp (CDE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) admitted defeat on Tuesday in its \$1.8 billion bid to acquire Canadian gold and silver miner Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Hicks Muse pays \$194 mln for ConAgra #39;s Swift stake ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate amp; Furst Inc. exercised its option to buy the company #39;s minority stake | 2 |
Neiman Marcus unveils 2004 Christmas Book Neiman Marcus on Tuesday unveiled its 2004 Christmas Book, which features an extraordinary array of gifts from a his and her bowling alley to a 230-foot-long Zeppelin. | 2 |
Cloning hope for neurone disease The scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep has applied for a licence to clone human embryos in the hope of using stem cells extracted from them to unravel the mysteries of motor neurone disease. | 3 |
IXI MOBILE JOINS FORCES WITH AT amp;T WIRELESS TO LAUNCH OGOT Redwood City, CA, 28 September 2004 - IXI Mobile and its IXI-Connect OS software have been selected by AT amp;T Wireless for Ogo, AT amp;T Wireless #39; hip, new mobile messaging device. | 3 |
PARALYMPICS SOMBRE CLOSING CEREMONY Instead of the fireworks and all night partying that usually accompanies such an event, it was a scaled back closing ceremony for the Athens Paralympics in tribute to seven teenagers killed in a bus crash on their way to the Games. | 1 |
Fans to vote on Candlestick Park renaming San Francisco #39;s iconic Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco 49ers, was renamed Monster Park on Tuesday in a \$US6 million deal with an electronics cable company. | 1 |
Argentina: Teenage shooter slays three An Argentine student opened fire on his classmates Tuesday killing four of them in the southern Argentina city of Carmen de Patagones. | 0 |
Ex-CIA Chief Gates Warns on Cyberterror Cyberterrorism could be the most devastating weapon of mass destruction yet and could cripple the U.S. economy, former CIA Director Robert Gates said at a terrorism conference Saturday. | 3 |
Dolly Creator Applies for Cloning License (AP) AP - The creator of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, applied for a human cloning license Tuesday to study how nerve cells go awry to cause motor neuron disease. | 3 |
Winemaker Tests Marriage of Wine and Song (AP) AP - Plants like being talked to, right? Well, Spanish researchers want to know if yeast used to age sherry grows better with music loosely based on its own DNA. | 3 |
California Quake Area a Seismic Hot Spot (AP) AP - The area of the San Andreas fault where a magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck Tuesday is a seismic hot spot that has produced similar temblors every two or three decades and, as a consequence, is among the most-monitored quake sites in the world. | 3 |
BayStar begins selling SCO stock Investment fund sells hundreds of thousands of shares, but still has major stake--and voice--in SCO's future. | 3 |
Slowing the speed of light to improve networking Optical fiber can deliver data fast, sometimes too fast. Slowing light might make some networking bottlenecks vanish. | 3 |
Cendant nears coup for US online travel group Cendant, the American travel group that owns car rental shops Avis and Budget, is close to acquiring online travel agency Orbitz.com in a deal said to be worth more than \$1 billion. | 2 |
EU nominee defends business record, promising to be impartial BRUSSELS Neelie Kroes, the Dutch candidate to be the European Union #39;s powerful new competition commissioner, defended her nomination in hearings at the European Parliament on Tuesday, insisting that her past membership on company boards did not imply a | 2 |
Blair rallies support for 2012 London 2012 Olympic bid leaders yesterday insisted that the capital has a realistic chance of winning the right to host the next but one summer games despite starting the campaign behind the clear favourites, Paris. | 1 |
Seven foreign hostages released is all smiles as released hostages Simona Torretta (R) and Simon Pari celebrate as they arrive at Ciampino Airport in Rome September 28, 2004. | 0 |
Celtic receive double boost with Sutton in and Stam out CELTIC face a tall order in tonights Champions League match against AC Milan in Italy, but the Scottish champions were given encouragement yesterday when striker Chris Sutton declared himself fit for action. | 1 |
Former BEA executives launch open source company Three former BEA Systems Inc. executives who left earlier this year have resurfaced as founders of a Seattle startup that plans to begin integrating and supporting a variety of open source server software next year. | 3 |
Small Wineries Find Ally Supporters of interstate shipping of wine from producers to consumers see their cause as a contest between David and Goliath: mom-and-pop wineries and connoisseurs of the grape vs. powerful liquor wholesalers. | 3 |
Freescale announces dual-core PowerPC processor SHANGHAI - While much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced Tuesday at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany, details of a dual-core PowerPC processor d... | 3 |
U.S. House approves tougher law against file trading SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that could allow criminal charges to be brought against individuals who participate in file-swapping Web sites or networks. | 3 |
ETA Sets Off Bombs Across Spain; No Serious Injuries MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque separatist group ETA set off a series of bombs across Spain Monday, but no one was seriously injured in the resurgence of violence by the outlawed guerrillas, Spanish officials and media said. | 0 |
Breeding Captive Elephants Is Difficult (AP) AP - Elephants in zoos are living as long as those in the wild, but their population in captivity is dwindling because it is so difficult to breed them, according to studies released Friday. | 3 |
Kidnappers Release Seven Hostages in Iraq (AP) AP - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Sa... | 0 |
Cuba, Russia Agree to Condemn Terrorism (AP) AP - The top diplomats for Russia and Cuba condemned all forms of terrorism Tuesday and renewed Russia's call last week to expand the war against the global scourge. | 0 |
Sudan Warns of Tribal War in Darfur (AP) AP - A top Sudanese official on Tuesday defended an accused ringleader of Arab militia attacks on African villagers as a legitimate tribal leader and warned any attempt to go after such men could ignite warfare that would tear the country apart. | 0 |
Australian men jailed for firebombing Asian restaurants (AFP) AFP - Two young Australian men have been jailed for more than two years for firebombing three Asian restaurants in a series of racist attacks earlier this year. | 0 |
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