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Synnex Beats 2Q Estimates; Net Income Up 50 Percent Synnex beat Wall Street estimates and reported a 50 percent increase in net income for the third quarter ended Aug. 31, and a 29-percent increase in sales. | 2 |
Good news: #39;Phishing #39; scams net only \$500 million The online cons known as quot;phishing quot; have cost US consumers \$500 million, according to a study released Wednesday. In addition, the study found that three-quarters of wired Americans have noticed an increase | 2 |
Oil prices fall on rising US inventories, easing Nigeria fears Red-hot oil prices cooled, easing below 50 dollars a barrel in New York after news of stronger-than-expected US inventories and oil in the United States and diminishing fears of unrest in Nigeria. | 2 |
DHL Sees Loss As FedEx, UPS Dominate Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. moved higher in trading Wednesday, while DHL Express appears not to be garnering the US market share it originally expected. | 2 |
SalesLogix and Salesforce.com Expand Their Customer Service <b>...</b> Two leading midmarket CRM vendors released expansions of their platforms this week, branching further into the service side of CRM. | 3 |
AC Milan #39;s denies brave Celtic AC Milan scored twice in the last two minutes to beat Celtic in a dramatic Champions League clash which edged the Italians closer to the knockout stages. | 1 |
CLIJSTERS ADVANCES IN HASSELT Former world number one Kim Clijsters showed little rust in her first match in more than than four months. On her home soil, the second-seeded Clijsters made a successful comeback from a wrist injury with | 1 |
Pitcairn men linked with #39;a culture of sex abuse #39; are named His name is Steve Christian, and he is the mayor of Pitcairn Island and a descendant of Fletcher Christian, the Bounty #39;s first mate. | 0 |
FACTBOX-Profiles of key figures in new Irish cabinet Ireland #39;s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has shuffled his cabinet to re-energise his party after a poor showing in local and European elections earlier this year. | 0 |
IBM Partial Settlement in Pension Suit (AP) AP - IBM Corp. and plaintiffs challenging the legality of its pension plan agreed to a deal Wednesday that settles most claims and caps the company's potential liability at #36;1.7 billion. The company previously had estimated a settlement could cost as much as #36;6.5 bill... | 3 |
Toxic Algae Bloom Grows Off Wash. Coast (AP) AP - A toxic algae bloom off the coast of Washington state has grown to about 30 miles wide, the largest and most potentially lethal algae yet found by scientists in the region. | 3 |
Electronic Back-Seat Driver System to Be Tested (Reuters) Reuters - Drivers may soon have no excuse for\ignoring road signs. | 3 |
SSH Proxies and Timeouts \\The other day I blogged about setting up SSH proxies . \\It turns out this is only 90 correct. You need to specify a timeout for the\'nc' command or they will block forever on your proxy machine and then you'll\run out of processes.\\The new command is \\"nc -w 60 h p "\ | 3 |
U.S. Treasury Debt Prices Fall (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 |
'Soft patch' not so soft, as US economic growth is revised higher (AFP) AFP - The US economy's quot;soft patch quot; was not as weak as initial estimates, according to government data showing a 3.3 percent pace of expansion in the second quarter. | 2 |
U.S. Treasury Debt Prices Fall 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 |
IBM Settles Pension Claims NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM on Wednesday said it has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to its pension plan and said the potential liability for the other claims that remain on appeal is capped at \$1.4 billion. | 2 |
AIG Says Unit Faces U.S. Criminal Probe NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether 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 insur... | 2 |
Techs rally on Internet deal NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Technology markets rallied Wednesday. They were boosted by soaring Internet stocks on news that Cendant plans to buy Orbitz and by investors looking for general bargains in the recently battered sector. | 2 |
Synnex 3Q Profit Rises 50 Percent Synnex Corp., a provider of technology supply chain services, on Wednesday said its third-quarter profit jumped 50 percent, helped by higher revenue and a settlement gain from the acquisition of its British subsidiary. | 2 |
US Air, Delta target executives for new cuts Washington, Sep 30. (PTI): Embattled American airliners US Airways and Delta Airline have announced that they are targeting executives for new cuts. | 2 |
IBM regains speed lead The latest machine for helping the Energy Department model nuclear explosions has become the world #39;s most powerful computer. An IBM Corp. | 3 |
Dell Aims To Drive Down Cost Of High-Performance Computing Vendor offers server, switch, and host-channel adapter bundle with increased I/O bandwidth, processing capability, and memory. By Larry Greenemeier. | 3 |
India cracks down on dopers India imposed a life ban on three women weightlifters for doping on Thursday, including a pair thrown out of the Athens Olympics. quot;We are taking very serious steps to root out doping from this country. | 1 |
Palestinian Rocket Kills Two Children A Palestinian rocket slammed into a street in this southern Israeli town Wednesday, killing two preschool children playing in a yard as Israelis ushered in the fall harvest festival of Sukkot. | 0 |
Speakers debate RFID benefits, challenges Several speakers at this week's EPCglobal conference talked about how RFID tagging can help companies track products, cut down on theft and reduce supply chain costs. But analysts said U.S. companies are moving cautiously on the technology. | 3 |
IBM gives a kick to CICS To modernize its venerable line of mainframe-based CICS middleware, IBM last week introduced an updated version of its CICS Transaction Server that enables IT to extend the product to work better with SOAs (service-oriented architectures) through Web services. With the release of CICS Transacti... | 3 |
Dad ID's Kidnapped Daughter in Colombia (AP) AP - Daniela Vanegas, a bright-eyed girl with thick, dark tresses, was kidnapped almost a year ago as she boarded her school bus in Bogota. | 0 |
Four injured in rocket attack on German base in Afghanistan (AFP) AFP - A rocket attack on a German-run peacekeeping team in northeastern Afghanistan has left four people injured, one seriously, a spokesman for the multinational security force in the country said. | 0 |
Dr. Phil Interviews President, First Lady (AP) AP - President Bush says it's "awfully difficult" for parents to urge their children not to drink and drive if they do it themselves. | 0 |
Edge Dynamics launches new breed of enterprise app Enterprise software takes an evolutionary step forward as Edge Dynamics and Tibco Software develop software that combines elements of both ERP and BI applications. | 3 |
Booming China raises workers' hopes - and discontent Low pay and poor conditions drove employees at two shoe plants in the Pearl River Delta to riot. | 0 |
Football: Rosenborg hold Arsenal Arsenal are held to a draw in Norway, despite Freddie Ljungberg's sixth-minute opener. | 0 |
Blair pledges over Bigley captors Tony Blair says the government would respond "immediately" if Ken Bigley's captors make contact. | 0 |
Baseball Returns to Washington as Expos Move From Montreal Major League Baseball will return to the nation's capital for the first time in more than three decades next season. | 0 |
Kerry Sees Debate as Chance to Shed 'Flip-Flop' Label Senator John Kerry conceded today that the Bush campaign had been "particularly successful" in portraying him as wobbly. | 0 |
Staph Strain Infects More Healthy People TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors... | 0 |
White House: Guard Never Disciplined Bush WASHINGTON - President Bush never was disciplined while serving in the Texas Air National Guard, never failed a physical and never asked his father or family friends for help to get him into the guard during the Vietnam War, the White House said Wednesday. The White House an... | 0 |
Saudi Edict Bans Mobile Phone Cameras RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has issued an edict barring the use of cell phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity" - a final resort after a ban on their sale and import to the kingdom failed to dent their popularity. ... | 0 |
Bush Seeks Aid for Fla. Hurricane Victims LAKE WALES, Fla. - President Bush, touring hurricane-battered Florida on his way to Thursday night's presidential debate, pressed Congress on Wednesday to approve his latest request for emergency federal aid for storm victims, this time for more than \$7 billion... | 0 |
Stocks Edge Up on GDP Reading, Oil Prices NEW YORK - Stocks moved higher Wednesday as investors digested a jump in the second-quarter gross domestic product while keeping a close eye on falling oil prices. The tech-dominated Nasdaq composite index posted especially robust gains... | 0 |
CBS Works Past Troubles for Premiere Week NEW YORK - During a week that CBS was fined \$550,000 for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash and its news division had to apologize for shoddy reporting, at least the prime-time ratings gave its executives something to smile about. CBS handily won the ratings race during the f... | 0 |
Two Sentenced to Death for USS Cole Attack SAN'A, Yemen - A U.S.-held Saudi suspected of being an associate of Osama bin Laden and a Yemeni militant were sentenced to death by firing squad Wednesday for the bombing of the USS Cole four years ago, the first convictions in the al-Qaida terror attack that killed 17 Americ... | 0 |
IMF Says Russia Must Save Energy Windfall WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday raised its outlook for Russia #39;s economy but warned Moscow to resist spending the extra oil revenues it has received as a result of record energy prices. | 2 |
LUKoil-Conoco Deal Opens Way to Iraq In the country #39;s biggest-ever privatization auction, ConocoPhillips on Wednesday paid nearly \$2 billion for a 7.59 percent stake in LUKoil, sealing a strategic alliance between the oil majors and revitalizing energy ties between Russia and the United | 2 |
Clearing Out Fannie #39;s #39;Phantoms #39; Score one for the lion tamer. The federal regulator that oversees home-mortgage giant Fannie Mae finally persuaded that government-sponsored enterprise to agree to clean up its questionable accounting practices. | 2 |
IBM Settles Pension Claims IBM on Wednesday said it has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to its pension plan and said the potential liability for the other claims that remain on appeal is capped at \$1. | 2 |
Stocks End Up, Boosted by Techs, Oil US stocks ended higher on Wednesday as Internet and semiconductor stocks led advances in technology shares and crude oil retreated from record high prices. | 2 |
Chip-Maker Posts Profitable Quarter Higher prices and increased production gave Micron Technology Inc. its second straight profitable quarter, but its fourth-quarter results still fell short of Wall Street estimates. | 2 |
Private spaceship leaves Earth #39;s atmosphere MOJAVE, Calif. - He was told to abort the bumpy flight, but the pilot of a spiraling space rocket stayed at it, and successfully flew into space and back. | 3 |
DC #39;s Ballgame The leaves are just turning in the nation #39;s capital but with a hint of spring, perhaps because Washington is getting a slice of Americana back: a baseball team of its very own. | 1 |
Wayne Rooney enters Man U folklore with hat trick in debut Yet none made the breathtaking impact in his Man U debut as 18-year-old Wayne Rooney did Tuesday night. Support your favorite team with official Champions League gear from the FOX Soccer Shop! | 1 |
AC Milan defeats Celtic 3-1 on late goals in Champions League Andriy Shevchenko celebrated his 28th birthday by scoring one goal and setting up Filippo Inzaghi #39;s game winner with a minute remaining to help AC Milan beat Celtic 3-1 for its second win in as many matches. | 1 |
Ichiro leads an assault on baseball #39;s records He #39;s poised to rack up most hits in a season. Other marks look vulnerable, too. By Erik Spanberg Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. | 1 |
Name of Washington Team to Be Decided (AP) AP - The wait for a baseball team is over. The debate over the name begins. | 1 |
Champions League Soccer: Chelsea Defeats Porto LONDON (Reuters) - Porto suffered the agony of being by outwitted by their former coach on Wednesday as the Champions League holders slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Jose Mourinho's Chelsea. | 1 |
Cox Wins 2,000 Games as Braves Beat Mets Bobby Cox became just the ninth manager in to win 2,000 games when the Atlanta Braves scored four runs in the seventh inning and beat the Mets on Wednesday. | 1 |
Circuit City Posts Weak Sales; Shares Off NEW YORK (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CC.N</A>, the No. 2 U.S. electronics chain, on Monday reported a surprise 4.3 percent drop in quarterly sales at ... | 2 |
Talbots Cuts Earnings View on Slow Sales (AP) AP - Talbots Inc., the women's clothing retailer, cut its third-quarter earnings forecast Wednesday, citing low September sales. | 2 |
Computer Associates to Cut 800 Jobs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Computer Associates will cut 800 jobs, the software maker said on Wednesday, reducing its work force 5 percent in its biggest cost-cutting effort since 2001 amid slack demand and falling prices for software and services. | 2 |
Micron Technology Posts Profit SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MU.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MU.N</A>, the No. 3 computer memory chip maker, on Wednesday reported a quarterly profit on stronger pricing, reversing a... | 2 |
#39;); //-- gt; Eye On Stocks Research in Motion (nadsaq: RIMM - news - people ) will announce second-quarter results. The maker of Blackberry handheld devices is expected to report quarterly earnings of 43 cents per share on revenue of | 2 |
#39;Soft patch #39; not so soft, as US economic growth is revised higher The US economy #39;s quot;soft patch quot; was not as weak as initial estimates, according to government data showing a 3.3 percent pace of expansion in the second quarter. | 2 |
Private space plane rockets towards \$17m prize MOJAVE (California) - SpaceShipOne, a privately built three-seat rocket plane, punched into space yesterday, moving a step closer to a US\$10 million (S\$17 million) civilian space prize. | 3 |
Web founder says cooperation needed to create the Semantic Web #39; #39; The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind | 3 |
Name of Washington team to be decided The wait for a baseball team is over. The debate over the name begins. With the Montreal Expos headed to the nation #39;s capital, ideas for a suitable nickname for a baseball team at the seat | 1 |
Chelsea beats defending champion Porto Jose Mourinho #39;s Chelsea outplayed the team he led to Champions League glory, FC Porto, 3-1 on Wednesday, leaving his former club with a huge task to stay in the competition. | 1 |
Chelsea overpower champions Porto LONDON, England -- Jose Mourinho #39;s new club Chelsea defeated his old side Porto 3-1 to leave the European champions with an uphill battle to qualify from Group H of the Champions League. | 1 |
Nigerian talks may aid oil price There are some signs of progress in resolving the Nigerian conflict that is riling global oil markets. The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria #39;s oil-rich south has | 0 |
China blasts Taiwan PM #39;s threat of missile strike BEIJING - China yesterday slammed Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun for threatening to fire missiles at Shanghai in the event of an attack by the mainland. | 0 |
AIG Target of Justice Department Probe Insurance giant American International Group Inc. on Wednesday said its financial products unit is being investigated by the Department of Justice over possible violations of securities laws. | 2 |
Martha heading to West Virginia jail Martha Stewart released a statement today saying she is headed to a federal prison Alderson, W.Va., to serve her five-month sentence. | 2 |
Iger: Pixar deal nearing end at Disney Walt Disney Co. president Bob Iger said Wednesday that a renewal of the studio #39;s deal with Pixar is unlikely, adding the partnership has approached the end of its natural life span. | 2 |
US rocket team halfway to winning \$10-million prize MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a \$10-million US prize. | 3 |
Amazon and Microsoft team up to fight spammers Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., both influential companies, have joined hands in order to take legal action and persue spammers who are targetting these companies and their customers. | 3 |
Gartner: Piracy driving Linux PC shipments Although Linux may be shipping on a growing number of PCs sold in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, about 80 of PCs shipped with the open source operating system this year will eventually run pirated versions of Windows | 3 |
Micron Technology Posts Profit Micron Technology Inc. (MU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the No. 3 computer memory chip maker, on Wednesday reported a quarterly profit on stronger pricing, reversing a year-earlier loss. | 3 |
House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps The US House of Representatives approved legislation Tuesday night that could put some peer-to-peer (define) file swappers in jail for up to five years. | 3 |
Agere Adjusts for Soft Demand Facing soft demand from major customers, semiconductor and software specialist Agere Systems said it will lay off 500 people and close three facilities to cut costs. | 3 |
Mourinho #39;s Chelsea Beats Porto in Champions League (Update1) Chelsea beat Porto 3-1 in European soccer #39;s Champions League, giving coach Jose Mourinho a victory over the team he led to the title last season. | 1 |
Fitness test for wounded Tiger Tiger Woods, who is due out at lunchtime in today #39;s first round of the WGC American Express Championship at Mount Juliet, says that his morning warm-up will determine whether he is fit enough to defend his title. | 1 |
French driver killed in motorcycle rally racing in Egypt #39;s desert French driver Richard Sainct died in a crash Wednesday during the fourth stage of the International Cross Country Rally, Pharaohs Rally in Egypt. | 1 |
Dodgers #39; Bradley Ejected for Throwing Bottle Milton Bradley became the latest Major League Baseball player to go after the people who pay to see him perform. In the same month that Texas pitcher Frank Francisco was | 1 |
Italy denies paying ransom for hostages ROME - Italy insisted on Wednesday it did not pay a million-dollar ransom to win the release of two aid workers, as the country rejoiced in the homecoming of the women who said they were ready to return to Iraq to continue their work there. | 0 |
Latham #39;very proud #39; of wife OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today praised his wife Janine Lacy for taking centre stage at Labor #39;s official campaign launch. Ms Lacy took the extraordinary step of introducing her husband at the ALP launch | 0 |
Oil prices retreat as US supplies rise Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday after a government report that US inventories of crude rose 3.4 million barrels last week, surprising many traders and analysts who had expected to see supplies shrink because of lingering production problems in the wake | 2 |
Cendant buys Ortiz for \$1.25B Cendant Corp., the world #39;s largest hotel franchiser and owner of the Avis car-rental company, said Wednesday it agreed to purchase Orbitz, a popular Internet travel agency, for \$1. | 2 |
US publisher cuts jobs after scandal Seeking to restore the confidence of investors and advertisers after discovering exaggerated circulation figures at The Dallas Morning News, Belo Corp. | 2 |
Bumpy ride for a private rocket ship MOJAVE, California A test pilot returned successfully to Earth on Wednesday after a foray into space that was marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds and he had to fight to regain control. | 3 |
Scientists rumble Earth #39;s hum Scientists have solved the mystery of a global hum which has plagued them since it was discovered in 1998. The constant drone at low frequencies, well below the range of human hearing, shows up in seismic | 3 |
RFID gets a reality check BALTIMORE--Radio frequency identification may be a hot topic among tech types these days, but proponents of the technology gathered here this week are keeping their exuberance in check. | 3 |
News Bits: New Pentium 4 M, New Sharp 64-bit Notebook, OQO Relase <b>...</b> A new version of the Pentium 4 aimed at the #39;desktop replacement #39; market was introduced by Intel this week. The new chip is called the quot;Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 quot; supports Hyper Threading Technology and... | 3 |
Roundup: Roma appoints Del Neri as coach Del Neri replaces Rudi Vller, who resigned Sunday after less than a month in charge of the Serie A club. He will become the third coach at Roma since Fabio Capello quit the club to take over at Juventus in May. | 1 |
India slaps life ban on three weightlifters caught for doping NEW DELHI: Indian sports officials on Wednesday handed life bans to three women weightlifters who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, officials said. | 1 |
Italians shrug off claims that \$1m was handed over to free women <b>...</b> Beaming smiles at the millions who prayed for their freedom, Simona Torretta and Simona Pari returned to a relieved Rome last night. | 0 |
Rocket kills 2 Israelis, prompting clash in Gaza JERUSALEM A Palestinian rocket killed two Israeli children and Israeli forces killed four Palestinians during a day of bloodshed Wednesday along the northern edges of the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Britain #39;s Blair Faces Poll Amidst Iraq Hostage Crisis The anguish of a British hostage in Iraq hangs over Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday as he faces the twin test of a local election and a debate by his Labour Party about the divisive war. | 0 |
New Zealand deports suspected spies New Zealand has deported two Israelis who admitted trying to fraudulently obtain passports, the BBC reported Wednesday. In July, Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara got six-month sentences for the crime. | 0 |
Israel considering #39;all options #39; to curb Iran A military strike is among Israel #39;s options to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Wednesday in the latest threat by the Jewish state against its arch-foe. | 0 |
System of pet passports to apply fully from Friday BRUSSELS New EU-wide legislation introducing a pet passport will be fully applicable from Friday, allowing pets and their owners to travel legally within the European Union, the European Commission said Wednesday. | 0 |
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