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HP Gets Extended Nokia IT Pact Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers and office equipment that also provides information technology services, said on Wednesday that it will provide the world #39;s largest cell phone maker, Nokia Corp. | 2 |
IBM spices up corporate search com September 29, 2004, 12:45 PM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
US has no objection to NKorea delaying nuclear talks until after <b>...</b> WASHINGTON : The United States said it had no objection to North Korea wanting to resume six-party talks on ending the Korean nuclear crisis after the November 2 US presidential elections. | 0 |
Argentina School Shooting Victims Buried Hundreds of mourners marched in a southern Argentina funeral cortege Wednesday for two of the three students gunned down by their teenage classmate in the nation #39;s worst school shooting on record. | 0 |
Ubuntu, a promising new Linux distribution The past month has introduced an interesting new distribution that is based on the Gnome and Debian projects. nbsp;Ubuntu Linux is the end-user-oriented distribution funded by Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical. nbsp; | 3 |
ConocoPhillips Buys Lukoil Stake for \$1.99 Billion (Update12) ConocoPhillips will buy 7.6 percent of OAO Lukoil from Russia for \$1.99 billion and may raise that stake, expanding its access to the world #39;s largest oil- and gas- producing country as energy prices surge. | 2 |
Martha Stewart to Serve Time in West Virginia artha Stewart #39;s prison stay for lying about a stock sale will take her to West Virginia, farther from home for the holidays, she said today, than she had hoped. | 2 |
Rochester Business Journal Eastman Kodak Co. and Lexar Media Inc. have expanded digital media card offerings with new Kodak picture cards. Lexar will distribute and market Kodak xD-Picture Cards through both companies global retail | 2 |
JPEG Attack Watch Continues Windows #39; JPEG vulnerability could be exploited by using Internet Explorer, a security firm claimed Wednesday, making the threat a potentially quot;devastating quot; one. | 3 |
Winter storms source of Earth #39;s hum: geologists LONDON - The Earth #39;s silent hum is created by interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and sea floor, researchers say. Planet Earth produces a deep, low frequency rumble far below the limit of human hearing. | 3 |
Consortium Works on Network Interoperability A new international group of defense contractors and systems integrators plans to accelerate increased interoperability in network systems that serve the military, first responders and, eventually, commercial users. | 3 |
Dope-tainted lifters banned for life by IOA THE INDIAN Olympic Association on Wednesday slapped life bans on tainted weightlifters Pratima Kumari and Sanamacha Chanu who were caught cheating at the Athens Olympics. | 1 |
Montreal Expos Fans Set to Bid Adieu to Team Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Canada #39;s first big league baseball team appeared set to move to Washington. | 1 |
Western Illinois football players charged in burglary, suspended Two Western Illinois football players were suspended from the team Wednesday after being charged in a weekend burglary. Defensive back William Penn and defensive lineman Michael Black were each charged with | 1 |
Group Enters Canadian Embassy in Beijing (AP) AP - Forty-three men, women and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy on Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum by North Koreans. One other man was stopped by police. | 0 |
RCMP officer was a rookie when abused woman was shot by her husband (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - BURNABY, B.C. (CP) - The RCMP officer who investigated a spousal abuse complaint from a woman who was later gunned down by her husband was a rookie with only six months on the job, a coroner's inquest heard Wednesday. | 0 |
House Votes to End Handgun Ban in D.C. (AP) AP - The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital, brushing aside pleas from city officials concerned about a surge in violence and more heavily armed criminals. | 0 |
IBM spices up corporate search Masala, an add-on to IBM's DB2 database, queries far-flung info sources on company networks. | 3 |
IBM claims fastest supercomputer title--for now New Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title. | 3 |
Study: #39;Phishing #39; scams net \$500 million Most IT Managers won #39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies. | 2 |
Lee Hits Grand Slam, White Sox Beat Tigers (AP) AP - Carlos Lee hit a grand slam and a two-run homer and Freddy Garcia pitched seven scoreless innings to lead the Chicago White Sox past the Detroit Tigers 11-2 Wednesday. | 1 |
One Flight Down, One To Go for SpaceShipOne Pilot Mike Melvill flew SpaceShipOne to the designated altitude, but on the return to Earth the craft rolled more than 30 times, causing concern on the ground. | 3 |
Bills' Losman May Practice in Two Weeks (AP) AP - Rookie quarterback J.P. Losman threw his first practice passes for the Buffalo Bills since breaking his left leg last month, and anticipates being cleared for contact within three weeks. | 1 |
Clijsters comes back from long layoff to make winning return Former top-ranked player Kim Clijsters made a winning return to the tour Wednesday, shaking off five months of rustiness to beat Iveta Benesova 7-6 (3), 6-2 and moving into the quarterfinals of the Gaz de France Stars tournament. | 1 |
Dakar legend Sainct killed in Egypt. It has been regretfully announced that three-times Rally Dakar winner Richard Sainct was killed today (Wednesday) while competing in Rally Egypt. | 1 |
Sudan bows to pressure, allows AU to monitor police in Darfur <b>...</b> KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan bowed to mounting pressure over the crisis in Darfur and agreed to allow African Union forces to monitor the activities of its police in camps for displaced persons in the region. | 0 |
WIU Football Players Charged in Burglary (AP) AP - Two Western Illinois football players were suspended from the team Wednesday after being charged in a weekend burglary. | 1 |
Study: 'Phishing' scams net \$500 million Scams that use spoofed Web sites of banks and other trusted bodies pulled in a majority of U.S. surfers, a survey has found. | 3 |
Treasuries Fall as Investors Take Profits (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. Treasury debt prices fell for a\second straight session on Wednesday as buyers' resistance to\higher prices spawned a wave of profit-taking. | 2 |
Oil Ends Below \$50 on Nigerian Cease-Fire NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid from record highs above \$50 a barrel Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a surprise increase in crude stocks and rebels in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region agreed to a preliminary cease-fire with the government. | 2 |
Treasuries Fall as Investors Take Profits NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury debt prices fell for a second straight session on Wednesday as buyers' resistance to higher prices spawned a wave of profit-taking. | 2 |
U.S. Stocks End Higher NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced on Wednesday as Internet and semiconductor companies led technology shares higher and crude oil retreated from record high prices. | 2 |
Dallas Morning News to Lose Jobs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Belo Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BLC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BLC.N</A> said on Wednesday it would cut more than 3 percent of its work force, mostly at its Dallas Morning News, which is grappling w... | 2 |
Oil Ends Below \$50 on Nigerian Ceasefire Oil prices slid from record highs above \$50 a barrel Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a surprise increase in crude stocks and rebels in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region agreed to a preliminary cease-fire with the government. | 2 |
McCormick Keeps It Spicy The spice and seasoning manufacturer beats third-quarter earnings and reaffirms guidance. | 2 |
IMF Optimistic on World Economic Growth The International Monetary Fund says the world economy is growing at the fastest past in three decades, but in its semi-annual report the international lender says growth is likely to slow in 2005. | 2 |
Hotel franchisor acquires Orbitz In a deal combining two travel industry powerhouses, hotel franchisor and real estate service company Cendant Corp. agreed to acquire Internet travel agency Orbitz Inc. | 2 |
Economy stronger in second quarter than previous estimate The economy grew at a faster pace this spring than previously thought, but was at its weakest level in more than a year, providing ammunition to both candidates in the final weeks of the presidential race. | 2 |
American Greetings reinstates dividend Greeting card maker American Greetings Corp. has reinstated its quarterly dividend after three years, as the company swings to profitability. | 2 |
Apple intros Logic Pro 7, Logic Express 7, Jam Packs Apple on Wednesday announced Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7, the newest major releases of the company #39;s pro music creation and audio production software. | 3 |
Baseball returns to Washington; Expos relocated to DC Baseball is returning to the nation #39;s capital for the first time in 33 years, in the form of the Montreal Expos. Expos president Tony Tavares said Major League Baseball told him Wednesday his team was moving | 1 |
Aussie Michael Rogers wins time trial at road cycling worlds BARDOLINO, Italy (CP) - Michael Rogers of Australia won the elite-division time trail Wednesday at the world road cycling championships, repeating his delayed victory from last year. | 1 |
Culpepper Named NFC Offensive Player Of The Week Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week. It #39;s the second time this season Culpepper has won that honor, and the fifth time in his career. | 1 |
Kidnappers treat quot;well with a lot of respect quot; during captivity ROME, Sept 29 (AFP):One of two Italian women released after three weeks captivity in Iraq said she was ready to go back to the war-wracked country to continue her aid work, and told of being given sweets by her kidnappers as a farewell gift. | 0 |
Analyst boosts retailer #39;s rating to #39;buy #39; NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Bank of America Monday upgraded Wal-Mart, citing valuation and its belief that higher energy costs have no negative surprise factor for the retailing behemoth. | 2 |
IBM Settles Pension Suit, to Take Charge International Business Machines Corp. has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to pensions, and will take a charge of \$320 million in the current quarter, the technology company said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Researchers Using DNA to Help Stop Elephant Poaching Despite a 1989 ban on the slaughter of elephants for their tusks, the illegal ivory trade is as brisk as ever. In an effort to step up efforts to protect elephants, researchers have been using genetic technology | 3 |
Salesforce.com Unveils Site Aimed At Providing On-Demand Call <b>...</b> Salesforce.com Inc. took the next step in its evolution Wednesday, introducing a new site, Supportforce.com, that #39;s designed to provide on-demand call-center and customer-service software along | 3 |
Woods seeks Ryder Cup changes Tiger Woods says he would like more of a say in future US Ryder Cup team decisions. Woods, who struggled along with the rest of the American side in the biennial event earlier this month, says he #39;d like to | 1 |
Massu cruises; Verdasco, Nadal fall in Palermo Palermo, Italy (Sports Network) - Top-seeded and defending champion Nicolas Massu of Chile advanced, but third-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco and sixth- seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal were not as fortunate Wednesday at the clay-court Palermo | 1 |
Correction: FDA-Drug-Imports Story (AP) AP - In a Sept. 28 story about the interception of drugs purportedly sent from Canada, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the medications had been ordered by Americans from the Web site www.CanadaRx.com. The drugs were ordered through www.CanadaRx.net. | 3 |
IBM Settles Pension Suit, to Take Charge (Reuters) Reuters - International Business Machines Corp.\has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to pensions,\and will take a charge of #36;320 million in the current quarter,\the technology company said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Dolly's Creator Applies for Human Cloning License (Reuters) Reuters - Scientists who created Dolly the sheep,\the world'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 |
AIG Says Unit Faces U.S. Criminal Probe NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AIG.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AIG.N</A>, the world's largest insurer by market value, on Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Justice ... | 2 |
Yen Rises Smartly as Oil Prices Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - The yen rose smartly on Wednesday as oil prices fell on diminished supply worries, while sterling slumped after a British central banker indicated the bank's rate tightening cycle may be nearing an end. | 2 |
G-7 likely won #39;t press China on yuan WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Finance ministers from the world #39;s seven richest nations aren #39;t likely to pressure China on foreign-exchange policy when they meet with Chinese finance officials for the first time as a group in Washington at the end of the week, a | 2 |
Bonds #39; 700th homerun ball tentatively kept from auction block The man who ended up with Barry Bonds #39; 700th homerun hit promised a state judge here Wednesday that he would not sell the ball, valued in the quot;six figures, quot; before a judge decides who is the real owner. | 1 |
Users: Data validity, security issues can arise during BI rollouts Although business intelligence software can yield major benefits for companies, a variety of challenges can arise during implementations, said users at the Business Intelligence Perspectives conference. | 3 |
Salesforce.com expands call center support The most significant product advancement is Salesforce.com's newly released Telephony API tool kit, which allows its sales automation software to integrate with products from partners. | 3 |
Compuware boosts application development wares Compuware announced plans yesterday to release two new products: one to purge new applications of security vulnerabilities, and a second to test applications against common errors. | 3 |
Cendant buying Orbitz.com in \$1.25B deal Travel and hospitality company Cendant Corp. today announced plans to acquire online travel vendor Orbitz.com for approximately \$1.25 billion. | 3 |
Update: CA cutting 5 of workforce Computer Associates International said today that it plans to cut 800 positions worldwide, or 5 of its workforce, in the hope of shaving \$70 million annually off its operating costs. | 3 |
Agere to cut 500 jobs amid slowing sales Citing sluggish sales, communications chip maker Agere Systems today said it will cut 500 jobs and sell or close a plant in Florida that employs 600 people. | 3 |
Freescale announces dual-core PowerPC processor Manufactured with a 90-nanometer process, Freescale's MPC8641D processor has two PowerPC e600 processor cores that run at clock speeds faster than 1.5 GHz and are connected by a high-speed interface. | 3 |
IBM reclaims supercomputer crown for U.S. IBM has assembled a 16,000-processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer, which on Sept. 16 edged out the Earth Simulator, built by IBM rival NEC, as the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. | 3 |
.Mac bumps up storage capacity, improves mail Apple Computer Inc. has improved the services offered to subscribers of .Mac, including an increase in the amount of online data storage to 250MB. | 3 |
Speakers debate RFID benefits, challenges BALTIMORE - While speakers at the EPCglobal Inc. U.S. conference Wednesday talked up the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID), analysts watching RFID adoptions said many U.S. companies are still waiting to see a clear reason to adopt the technology. | 3 |
Higher oil prices prompt downward revision to #39;05 outlook WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The global economic outlook that looked strong in April is starting to fray around the edges, according to an International Monetary Fund report released on Wednesday. | 2 |
Blue Gene/L teraflops into supercomputing #39;s top spot IBM #39;s ascension to the top of the world #39;s supercomputing ranks marks the emergence of a platform that would make its way into a wide variety of customer environments, executives said Wednesday. | 2 |
Cendant To Buy Orbitz For \$1.25 Billion SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 -- Cendant Corp. and Orbitz today reached a definitive agreement for Cendant to buy all the shares of Orbitz for \$27. | 2 |
Update 3: Ex-CEO Scrushy Faces New Perjury Charge Federal prosecutors added perjury and obstruction of justice charges to the criminal case against fired HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard Scrushy on Wednesday under a new indictment in the rehabilitation giant #39;s accounting scandal. | 2 |
IMF calls on China to drop yuan currency peg WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund yesterday called on China to drop the yuan currency #39;s tight peg to the dollar to help keep domestic inflation under control and bring more balance to the global economy. | 2 |
IBM Agrees to Settle Part of Illinois Pension Lawsuit (Update1) International Business Machines Corp., the world #39;s largest seller of computers and related services, said it agreed to settle part of a lawsuit that claimed the company #39;s pension plan discriminated against older workers. | 2 |
Microsoft To Unveil Low-priced XP Starter NEW DELHI: Microsoft will be launching substantially low-priced Windows XP Starter Edition in the Indian market early next year. | 3 |
IBM Unmasks Masala for Speedy Search Sifting through millions of documents to locate a valuable few is tedious enough, but what happens when those files are scattered across different repositories? | 3 |
Inter crush Anderlecht 3-1 to lead group by three points Inter Milan beat Anderlecht 3-1 away to open a three-point lead in Champions League Group G on Wednesday. Obafemi Martins put Inter ahead in the ninth minute when he turned in a low left cross from fellow striker Adriano. | 1 |
Norway: Pilots attacked with an ax pee writes quot;A passenger on a commuter plane in northern Norway attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an axe as the aircraft was coming in to land. | 0 |
Computer Assoc. Cuts 800 Jobs Worldwide (AP) AP - Computer Associates International Inc. announced a restructuring plan Wednesday that would reduce its work force by 800 people worldwide, saving the business software maker #36;70 million annually once the plan is fully implemented. | 3 |
Analysts, Apple on Logic, GarageBand (MacCentral) MacCentral - The focus of Apple Computer Inc. executives was on music Wednesday as the Cupertino, Calif.-based company released new versions of its professional music creation software Logic, Logic Express and new Jam Packs for its consumer level application GarageBand.... | 3 |
Lethargic Gunners fail to tie up loose Strands (AFP) AFP - Arsenal's capacity for shooting themselves in the foot in Europe surfaced again as the English champions laboured to a 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. | 0 |
Russian Foreign Minister Meets With Castro (AP) AP - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders Wednesday as the countries worked on re-creating more modest versions of political and economic alliances that unraveled after the Soviet Union's collapse. | 0 |
Bittersweet day in Montreal as Expos officially play final home game (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - MONTREAL (CP) - It's finally official. The Montreal Expos are moving on. | 0 |
RNC Creates Web Sites to Criticize Kerry (AP) AP - Republicans have one message for followers of many faiths: Sen. John Kerry is wrong. | 0 |
Congress Delays Votes on OT, Drug Issues (AP) AP - Congress' Republican leaders are postponing politically thorny votes on overtime, imported prescription drugs and other issues until after the November elections. | 0 |
Blair Says Britain Would Respond to Hostage Takers BRIGHTON, England/DUBAI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday Britain would respond to the captors of hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq if they made contact with his government. | 0 |
Wounded Pilots Land Norway Plane After Axe Attack OSLO (Reuters) - An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be linked to his asylum status. | 0 |
Former Sun, BEA execs forge grid venture Former executives from companies such as Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, and Oracle this week are formally launching a venture called Cassatt, which is endeavoring to automate IT operations, leverage commodity hardware and software, and govern network compute cycles in a grid-lik... | 3 |
Cendant Buying Orbitz for \$27.50 a Share Cendant (CD:NYSE) sewed up a \$1.25 billion acquisition of online travel giant Orbitz (ORBZ:Nasdaq), igniting another surge in shares of the airline-owned travel site. | 2 |
IBM Agrees to Settle Part of Federal Pension Lawsuit (Update2) International Business Machines Corp., the world #39;s largest computer maker, said it will settle part of a federal lawsuit that claimed the company #39;s pension plan discriminated against 130,000 older workers. | 2 |
Union workers walk at 4 hotels Union workers went out on strike Wednesday morning at four San Francisco hotels, their contract bargaining having stalled over differences about wages, pensions and the term of a contract. | 2 |
Colombian leader seeks more international support Colombia, locked in a 40-year war fueled by the drug trade, has made gains in restoring order and economic growth but needs more international help to secure | 2 |
BlueGene: IBM claims crown IBM CORP. announced Wednesday that it has created the most powerful computer ever, besting a Japanese machine that has held the world record for computing power for three years. | 3 |
Toxic Algae Bloom Seen Off Washington State Coast An unusually large toxic bloom of algae, which could poison humans and taint shellfish, has been detected in the ocean off the northwest coast of Washington state, oceanographers said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Baseball is back in DC Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Washington #39;s wait is over for the return of a Major League Baseball team, as it was announced on Wednesday that the Montreal Expos will be relocated to the nation #39;s capital in 2005. | 1 |
Inter crushes Anderlecht, leads group by three points Inter Milan beat Anderlecht 3-1 away to open a three-point lead in Champions League Group G on Wednesday. Obafemi Martins put Inter ahead in the ninth minute when he turned in a low left cross from fellow striker Adriano. | 1 |
White Sox 11, Tigers 2 When Magglio Ordonez joined Frank Thomas on the disabled list in July, the Chicago White Sox fell apart. They won just eight times during a 28-game stretch and plummeted out of first place. | 1 |
Victims of Argentine school shooting mourned Hundreds of mourners marched in a funeral procession Wednesday for two teenage victims of Argentina #39;s worst school shooting on record, a day after a fellow student #39;s classroom rampage. | 0 |
Suspected Spies Heading To Israel The Prime Minister has confirmed the two Israelis convicted and sentenced earlier this year for passport fraud, have been deported. | 0 |
Outlook on future flagging NEW YORK - Continued job worries resulted in an unexpected decline in consumer confidence in September, the second consecutive monthly dip, a New York-based private research group said Tuesday. | 2 |
Cendant to buy Orbitz for \$1.25 billion Travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant said Wednesday it will buy travel Web site Orbitz for about \$1.25 billion, making it the No. | 2 |
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