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#39;Soft patch #39; not so soft, as US economic growth revised higher WASHINGTON : The US economy #39;s quot;soft patch quot; was not as weak as initial estimates, according to government data Wednesday showing a 3.3 percent pace of expansion in the second quarter. | 2 |
CA cutting 5 of workforce SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Computer Associates International Inc. plans to cut 800 positions worldwide, 5 of its workforce, in the hope of shaving \$70 million annually off its operating costs. | 2 |
Air Canada to Buy 45 Embraer Jets Air Canada (AC.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (ACErv.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy 45 regional jets from Embraer SA (EMBR4. | 2 |
Black amp; Decker Gets OK to Buy Tools Unit Black amp; Decker Corp. received regulatory approval for its \$775 million cash acquisition of pump maker Pentair Inc. #39;s tools group, and expects the deal to close in early October, the power tools maker said Wednesday. | 2 |
SpaceShipOne: A giant leap for high-tech vets? update MOJAVE, Calif.--A venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen got a jump Wednesday on rivals eyeing a \$10 million prize for the first privately funded junkets into space and back. | 3 |
Amazon, Microsoft Sue Spammers Amazon and Microsoft have filed lawsuits against companies that used their names to commit fraud on the Internet. One suit accuses Gold Disk Canada of quot;spoofing, quot; or sending e-mails that appear | 3 |
Asteroid Comes Closest to Earth Since 12th Century, NASA Says Toutatis, a mountain-sized asteroid, came the closest to the Earth since at least the 12th century, allowing scientists to gather data about its trajectory and features, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. | 3 |
Consortium Forms to Set Network Centric Communications Standards The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) formally introduced itself this week at a Tuesday (Sept. 28) press conference in Washington, DC The new group, consisting initially of 28 companies | 3 |
3 Indian Female Weightlifters Banned for Life After Positive <b>...</b> The Indian Olympic Association has banned three female weightlifters and their coach for life after the athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. | 1 |
Group F: Wenger: #39;Reyes is our Rooney #39; On Tuesday night everyone was talking about one Wayne Rooney, after the young prodigy inscribed a magnificent hat-trick on his Manchester Utd and Champions League debut. | 1 |
Roddick betters Parmar AMERICAN Andy Roddick wasted little time in trouncing Britain #39;s Arvind Parmar 6-1 6-4 to advance into the second round of the Thailand Open today. | 1 |
44 N.Koreans Break Into Canada #39;s Beijing Embassy A group of 44 North Korean asylum seekers used makeshift ladders to scale the fence and leap into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, officials said. | 0 |
Intel No. 1 for helping workers with commutes (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - The federal government releases a list Wednesday lauding Fortune 500 firms that make a major effort to ease commutes for their employees, which helps ease traffic congestion and air pollution. Intel is No. 1 on the list of 69 companies to be de... | 3 |
China exports 73.4 mln cellphones in first seven months, doubling earnings (AFP) AFP - China more than doubled its export earnings from cellphones, shipping 73.4 million handsets overseas in the first seven months of the year, state media reported. | 3 |
Jarvis slumps as debt deadline nears Shares in Jarvis have plunged by more than 20 per cent after the support services contractor warned that it may yet fall victim to its 230 million debt burden. | 2 |
Support Linux Standard Base (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - LSB 2.0 represents the best chance to prevent Linux fragmentation. | 3 |
Top Count Is Withdrawn in Tyco Retrial (AP) AP - Prosecutors have decided to abandon the charge of enterprise corruption, the top count against former Tyco International Ltd. executives L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark H. Swartz, when the two are retried in January. | 3 |
Federal Scientists Search for Lost H-Bomb (AP) AP - Spurred by what appear to be unusual radiation readings offshore, the U.S. government is sending a team of 20 scientists to try to find a hydrogen bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958. | 3 |
FDA Eases Rules on Drug Manufacturing (Reuters) Reuters - Drug makers will not need regulatory\approval for every change in their manufacturing processes\under new guidelines designed to prevent supply disruptions,\U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Merger Creates World #39;s Third-Largest Firm Piper Rudnick and the British law firm DLA have agreed to combine in the largest merger of law firms to date. The combined firm, which is to be known as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, will have | 2 |
Economic Growth Better Than Thought WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew faster in the second quarter than previously thought as business inventories rose at the strongest rate in four years, the government said on Wednesday, a sign the soft patch was not as soft as feared. | 2 |
Blue Chips Slip as Oil Stocks Weigh NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips slid back into the red on Wednesday as oil company shares fell on a report showing an unexpected rise in U.S. oil inventories last week, which drove oil prices lower. | 2 |
Computer Associates to Cut 800 Jobs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software maker Computer Associates <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CA.N</A> on Wednesday said it would cut 800 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force, to cut costs amid weaker de... | 2 |
Martha Stewart Going to W.Va. Jail-Source NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia, a source close to the case said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Orbitz: Travelzoo's Line in the Sand A smart investor pays \$1.25 billion for Orbitz. So what's Travelzoo worth? | 2 |
Private Spacecraft Roars to Space and Back <I>SpaceShipOne,</I> the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space, roared to space and back again this morning from a launch site in California's Mojave desert. | 3 |
Penguin Tags Are a Drag -- Can Rubber Improve Them? Hoping to monitor penguins unobtrusively, scientists are testing a tag made of silicone rubber. Stainless steel tags used currently can impede the birds' ability to hunt. | 3 |
Birding Column: Sweet Song of the Winter Sparrows Birding columnist Mathew Tekulsky considers the joys of sparrows wintering in his California backyard. | 3 |
Nokia extends outsourcing deal with HP The deal is valued at about \$100 million, but the handset maker will be billed based on actual service consumption. | 3 |
IBM #39;s Blue Gene Wins Fastest Supercomputer Honors IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world #39;s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36. | 2 |
Tense Moments During Trailblazing Private Space Flight MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - In a mission that could herald a new era of space tourism, a privately built, three-person rocket ship flew to space and back today in a mission that frightened those who watched from the ground and on a live webcast. | 3 |
IronPort Appliance Uses E-Mail Analysis To Fight Viruses New version of IronPort product draws on data from E-mail-monitoring network to quarantine viruses within minutes. By Thomas Claburn. | 3 |
Reform to Rules for Putnam Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), who led much of Congress #39; oversight of federal information technology during the past two years, has left the House Government Reform Committee and joined the Rules Committee. | 3 |
Mets to revamp front office again NEW YORK - The New York Mets are revamping their front office for the second straight offseason, hiring Omar Minaya from the Montreal Expos to become the head of baseball operations. | 1 |
Circuit City picks up AT T Net phone plan The retailer will sell CallVantage in many of its outlets and through its Web site. | 3 |
Apple software to help garage bands jam "Jam Packs" expand features and portability for musicians mixing music on their Macs. | 3 |
HD-DVD Standard Earns Approval Rewriteable version of the next-gen DVD format moves closer to mass production. | 3 |
HSBC Group Chairman to Retire LONDON - David Eldon will retire next year as chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. and the Hang Seng Bank, HSBC Group, one of the world #39;s largest banking and financial service organizations, said Monday. | 2 |
Telecom Italia Poised for TIM Buyout Telecom Italia plans to use cash for a bigger-than-expected chunk of a 20 billion-euro (\$26.69 billion) buyout of its mobile unit TIM, a source close to the deal said on Monday. | 2 |
Biometric gear to be deployed in hospitals and GPs' surgeries Early sighting of ID scheme budget-laundering | 3 |
Magna subsidiary Decoma to close Toronto-area plant, post US\$36M <b>...</b> CONCORD, Ont. (CP) - Decoma International, a subsidiary of auto parts giant Magna International, is shutting down its anodizing plant just north of Toronto and posting \$36 million US in special charges for that move and restructur... | 2 |
News: Warspammer pleads guilty under anti-spam law A Los Angeles man who spewed porn advertisements from his car likely faces up to six months in jail.\ | 3 |
News: Ha, ha you're infected A new version of the infamous Bagle worm series is spreading widely across the net. | 3 |
.Mac Increases Email amp; iDisk Storage .Mac, the popular suite of Internet software and services, now offers both new members and its more than half million existing members 250MB of combined online storage for .Mac mailboxes and iDisk folders, perfect for sharing photos, movies and documents with family, friends and... | 3 |
MP3 Creator Warns Tech Impasse Dooming Downloads (Reuters) Reuters - Rival technologies that baffle consumers\will run more companies out of business in the nascent music\download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the\lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday. | 3 |
France Cautious About Purported Iraq Hostage Talks (Reuters) Reuters - France was torn between hope and doubt\about its two hostages in Iraq on Wednesday after a purported\French negotiator announced their imminent release but\officials insisted they knew nothing about his efforts. | 0 |
Britain's Labour Party struggles to shift conference focus from Iraq (AFP) AFP - Britain's ruling Labour Party struggled to shift the pre-election focus to domestic politics, as Prime Minister Tony Blair faced renewed pressure over the fate of a British hostage in Iraq. | 0 |
Lawyer for teen killed by police says door still open for criminal charges (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - The door is still open for criminal charges against a Toronto police constable who shot a teenager to death, despite an investigation clearing him, a lawyer for Jeffrey Reodica's family said Wedne... | 0 |
MP3 Creator Warns Tech Impasse Dooming Downloads BERLIN (Reuters) - Rival technologies that baffle consumers will run more companies out of business in the nascent music download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday. | 3 |
Rockets Kill 2 Israeli Boys; Raids Kill 6 Palestinians SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - Palestinian militants eluding an army crackdown killed two Israeli children in a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday and troops killed six Palestinians in raids in the coastal strip and the West Bank. | 0 |
Tussle at the Top Not so long ago many Western CEOs couldn #39;t even say what the renminbi was, much less whether it should appreciate. Today China #39;s currency, also known as the yuan, is all the buzz. | 2 |
44 N.Koreans Break Into Canada's Beijing Embassy BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of 44 North Korean asylum seekers used makeshift ladders to scale the fence and leap into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, officials said. | 0 |
EU chiefs to discuss asylum camps European Justice and Home Affairs ministers are to start talks on whether asylum seekers could be processed outside the EU. | 0 |
World growth highest since 1973 The world's economy should grow at its fastest rate in 30 years in 2004, despite rising oil prices, the IMF says. | 0 |
Stewart to Serve Time in West Virginia NEW YORK - Martha Stewart, convicted of lying about a stock sale, has been ordered to serve her sentence at the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va. Stewart had asked to serve her five-month sentence in Danbury, Conn., close to her 90-year-old mother and her home in Westport, or a... | 0 |
Stocks Are Mixed on Latest GDP Reading NEW YORK - Stocks were narrowly mixed Wednesday as investors digested a jump in the second-quarter gross domestic product, while keeping a close eye on falling oil prices. Investors saw the Commerce Department report, which said the nation's GDP grew 3.3 percent from April to J... | 0 |
Two Sentenced to Death for USS Cole Attack SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday, the first convictions and sentences for the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an attack blamed on Osama bin Laden's terror network. Saudi-bo... | 0 |
Large Asteroid Safely Zooms By Earth Jet Propulsion Lab -- A mountain-sized asteroid made its closest approach to Earth at 6:35 a.m. Pacific Time (9:35 a.m... | 3 |
Rocket Attack Kills Israeli Child An Israeli child was killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants on Wednesday, an Israeli rescue service said. | 0 |
Foodland shares placed on trading halt SYDNEY: Shares in Australian grocery food chain Foodland Associated Ltd were placed in a trading halt on Monday after a takeover offer from Metcash Trading Ltd. | 2 |
Briefly: Circuit City picks up AT T Net phone plan roundup Plus: Tech firms rally against copyright bill...Apple .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches...Alvarion expands wireless broadband in China. | 3 |
Crude Oil Price Hits \$50 Mark The Minister of Energy, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, has said government policy on the subsidy of ex-pump prices of petroleum products would remain unchanged even though crude oil price has topped the psychological milestone of \$50 per barrel last Tuesday for the | 2 |
World Bank says RP suffers from poor image among foreign investors The countrys rich natural resources and skilled workforce, coupled with improved business climate, could turn the Philippines into an investment haven in Asia, but, so far, the trouble-plagued country has failed to communicate these qualities | 2 |
Economic Growth Better Than Thought The US economy grew faster in the second quarter than previously thought as business inventories rose at the strongest rate in four years, the government said on | 2 |
New charges for HealthSouth ex-CEO Scrushy faces fewer counts for role in accounting scandal after grand jury consolidates old charges. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury Wednesday consolidated charges against HealthSouth Corp. | 2 |
Jamdat shares up 45 percent in first day of trade Shares of wireless game maker Jamdat Mobile Inc. (JMDT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose as much as 45 percent on Wednesday in their first trading day, boosted by investors betting | 2 |
India Added To Windows XP Starter Edition Roster Designed as a result of Microsofts ongoing collaborations with international governments, Windows XP Starter Edition Pilot Program is part of Microsofts comprehensive commitment to enable individuals, communities and countries to gain access to the | 3 |
Security Watch Letter: Inside the JPEG Virus The end of summer lull for viruses and worms continues. We #39;re still seeing new versions of RBots, and a new Bagle, but nothing with teeth. | 3 |
Apple software to help garage bands jam Digital musicians will have a few new riffs for their virtual production boards, at least those using the latest Apple software. Apple Computer on Wednesday announced new versions of its pro and midrange digital | 3 |
HD-DVD Standard Earns Approval The DVD Forum has approved the physical disc specifications for the rewritable version of HD-DVDs (High Definition/High Density-DVDs), taking the format an important step nearer to mass production. | 3 |
Philadelphia Goes Wireless Since April, baseball fans attending San Francisco Giants home games at SBC Park have enjoyed wireless internet access if they bring a portable computer with them. | 3 |
Soccer: Rooney is dazzling in his United debut For about \$20, you can tour the Theater of Dreams and inhale the history of Manchester United in its Old Trafford Stadium. For \$10 more, you could join the waiting list for a seat on match days - and witness the new arrival Wayne Rooney. | 1 |
FACTBOX-Luigi Del Neri factbox - After a modest playing career in Serie A and B with Spal, Foggia, Novara and Udinese, Del Neri takes up his first coaching job in August 1990 with Teramo in Serie C2, Italy #39;s fourth division. | 1 |
Chiefs suddenly struggling in red zone To the expanding litany of woes that has plagued the winless Kansas City Chiefs through the first three weeks of the 2004 campaign, a spate of unexpected problems that extends far beyond | 1 |
Norwegian pilots land plane after axe attack by passenger OSLO (AFP) - A seemingly unstable passenger attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane with an axe but the aircraft was later able to land, amid concerns over lax security on the country #39;s local flights and at regional airports. | 0 |
Israel stays silent as #39;spy #39; pair leave NZ Israel is maintaining its silence over an alleged spy scandal as it prepares to receive two men deported from New Zealand for passport fraud. | 0 |
Palestinian Rocket Kills 2 in Israeli Town A Palestinian rocket hit an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two people, according to Israeli media. Soon after, witnesses said an Israeli helicopter launched a strike near a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza. | 0 |
Rodman to Play in Mexico on NBA Comeback Trail MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Retired basketball great Dennis Rodman is to play two games with a Mexican league side next month as part of his slow-burn campaign to return to the NBA. | 1 |
Oil Falls Below \$49 on Nigeria Cease-Fire LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices slid from record highs above \$50 a barrel on Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a surprise increase in crude stocks and rebels in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region agreed a temporary cease-fire. | 2 |
Conoco Invests in Russia Oil Major LUKOIL MOSCOW (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips won a \$2 billion stake in Russia's LUKOIL and said it aimed to raise that to 20 percent in a sweeping alliance that allows the two oil majors to tap vast reserves in northern Russia and Iraq. | 2 |
Martha Stewart Going to W.Va. Prison NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia she said on Wednesday. | 2 |
IBM Claims Fastest Computer The company's Blue Gene/L System beats out Japan's Earth Simulator. Also: Microsoft releases Hindi Windows XP in India hellip;.The Sims 2 sells more than a million copies hellip;. and more. | 2 |
First Google ratings show search engine revved up Five Wall Street firms that helped take Google Inc public started investment coverage of the internet search engine on Tuesday, giving it their highest stock ratings and predicting substantial gains. | 2 |
Microsoft Releases Low-Cost Windows XP for India a pilot program targeting first-time and beginning computer users -- comes on the heels of a similar customized version for Russia. | 3 |
Porn JPEG Virus will Hijack your PC #39;s Hackers are using porn images posted on Usenet newsgroups to take advantage of the flaw in Microsoft programs regarding JPEGs. An overflow occurs in the GDI JPEG decoder from malicious code in the JPEG. | 3 |
Toutatis Safely Passes the Earth Summary - (Sep 29, 2004) As predicted, Asteroid Toutatis made its closest approach to the Earth today, passing a mere 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) away from our planet - 4 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. | 3 |
Microsoft open-sources Web authoring application SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - 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. | 3 |
Giants #39; rookie faces biggest game of career Unbeaten and coming off his second career complete game, rookie Noah Lowry will try to continue his brilliant pitching when the playoff-hopeful San Francisco Giants wrap up a three-game series with the San Diego Padres. | 1 |
Rock credentials fail to cool protest anger Even Peter Garrett, former rock star and one-time darling of Greens and the Left, could not escape the fury of demonstrators as he arrived for the official launch of Labor #39;s election campaign in Brisbane yesterday. | 0 |
Sudan #39;s southern rebel leader warns govt against delay in final <b>...</b> The leader of Sudan #39;s southern rebels on Wednesday warned that delaying a final accord to end the 21-year-old southern rebellion could lead to the disintegration of the country. | 0 |
Greek airliner resumes flight A Greek airliner diverted to Ireland by a bomb threat resumed its flight to New York after a search did not find anything suspicious onboard. | 0 |
Three small bombs explode in Turkey, no injuries Two small bombs exploded in front of branches of the British HSBC Bank in Turkey on Tuesday and a third blast hit a Turkish-American Association in the capital Ankara, Anatolian news agency reported. | 0 |
CL Preview: Bayern - Ajax Match of the week in the Champions #39; League features two clubs that have won eight Champions #39; Cups between them, the powerhouses of Germany and the Netherlands, Bayern Munich versus Ajax Amsterdam. | 1 |
Saudi Edict Bans Mobile Phone Cameras (AP) AP - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity." | 3 |
SpaceShipOne Completes First of Two X Prize Flights (Update1) SpaceShipOne, financed by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, rocketed 62 miles over the California desert, completing the first half of | 3 |
Cut-down Windows XP released in India Microsoft has developed a cut-down version of Windows XP with a Hindi interface for the Indian market. The Indian version, which will be available early next year, will also feature help and training in Hindi. | 3 |
Intel unveils latest mobile chip Intel today launched its latest mobile Pentium chip designed for use in high-end desktop replacement laptops. The Pentium 4M 548 runs at 3.33GHz with 1MB Level 2 cache, and is built around Intel #39;s latest 90nanometre technology. | 3 |
Tennis: Roddick Reaches Second Round of Thailand Open Second seed Andy Roddick of the United States has easily reached the second round of the Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok with a straight-set win over Arvind Parmar of Britain, 6-1, 6-4. | 1 |
Rider Sainct killed in Egypt crash PARIS, France -- French motorcycle rider Richard Sainct, who won the Paris-Dakar rally three times, has been killed in a crash in the Pharaohs Rally in Egypt. | 1 |
North Texas star running back Patrick Cobbs out for season DENTON, Texas North Texas has shut down star running back Patrick Cobbs for the season. Mean Green coach Darrell Dickey says Cobbs will take a redshirt this season and return to the team as a fifth-year senior next season. | 1 |
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