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Is Microsoft Rattling the Linux-Patent Sabers? Microsoft Corp. is denying that its CEO Steve Ballmer told Asian government leaders on Thursday that Microsoft believes that Linux violates more than 200 software patents. | 3 |
Bit Bytes : Halo 2 At gaming stores, lines went through doors as people arrived at midnight to get the first copies. Halo 2 was definitely worth the wait. | 3 |
Van Nistelrooy hurts hip Manchester, England (Sports Network) - Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy picked up a hip injury while playing for Holland in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday. | 1 |
Ireland, Austria share lead at -12 SEVILLE, Spain -- Ireland and Austria share the lead after Thursday #39;s first round of the World Cup of Golf at the Royal Seville Golf Course, while a pair of unheralded Americans remain in contention. | 1 |
The highs and lows of the Entente Cordiale When Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale 100 years ago they hoped it would bring to an end centuries of conflict, from the territorial battles of the Middle Ages to colonial disputes of the nineteenth century. | 0 |
Japan, China try to smooth over tensions Japanese and Chinese officials were trying to arrange a meeting between the leaders of their two countries on the sidelines of a weekend summit to try to calm rising tensions, authorities said. | 0 |
Palestinian PM called for end to quot;armed chaos quot; GAZA CITY, Nov 18 (AFP) - Prime minister Ahmed Qorei called for an end to quot;armed chaos quot; in the occupied territories Thursday as the interim Palestinian leadership held a raft of talks with various political factions here. | 0 |
Programs: a Checklist for Tuning Up Your PC PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - You change the oil in your car every 5,000 miles or so. You clean your house every week or two. Your PC needs regular maintenance as well -- especially if you're using Windows and you spend a lot of time on the Internet. | 3 |
US cannot verify Iran nuclear claim LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov 18 (AFP) - The White House said Thursday that it could not verify an Iranian exile opposition group #39;s charge that the Islamic republic was running a secret nuclear bomb facility near Tehran. | 0 |
Arafat died of clotting disorder -- Le Monde Paris, Nov. 17: Doctors who treated Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, believe he died of a blood condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and have ruled out poisoning, Le Monde newspaper reported today. | 0 |
Eisner: TV Interview with Ovitz Was Dumb GEORGETOWN, Del. (Reuters) - Michael Eisner, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DIS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DIS.N</A>, on Thursday said it was "stupid" to appear on a national television show in 1996 to show his support for Michael Ovitz and conceded he was less than candid with the public during the interview. | 2 |
Flying High on the Web A new study shows airline and hotel websites may sell better than online travel agencies. Who knew? | 2 |
Microsoft Threatens Patent Lawsuits \\More FUD from our friends in Seattle:\\"Asian governments using Linux will be sued for IP violations, Microsoft CEO\Steve Ballmer said today in Singapore. He did not specify that Microsoft would\be the company doing the suing, but it's difficult to read the claim as anything\other than a declaration of IP war."\\"According to a Reuters report (which we fervently hope will produce one of\Ballmer's fascinating 'I was misquoted' rebuttals*), Ballmer told Microsoft's\Asian Government Leaders Forum that Linux violates more than 228 patents. Come\on Steve, don't hold back - what you mean 'more than 228' - 229? 230? Don't pull\your punches to soften the blow to the community. "Some day," he contin ...\\ | 3 |
In Defense of Clapton's Layla Recently, GuitarWorld magazine published a list of top 100 of the worst guitar solos, riffs and licks of all time. I am a big sucker for this sort of thing, so I swallowed the \$7.95 price to purchase it, with a good expectation of what would be included. Just as literary scholars have a canon of great literature, the guitarist community has a canon of really awful guitar solos - including, for instance, Neil Young's infamous one-note Cinnamon Girl solo, anything by Van Halen, and anything played by Kurt Cobain. When I turned to the list, I suffered a cruel, horrible shock. | 3 |
'Original' great ape discovered The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered. | 3 |
Ancient Ape Discovered #151;Last Ape-Human Ancestor? In Spain scientists have discovered 13-million-year-old fossils of new species of ape. The species may have been the last common ancestor of humans and all great apes living today. <b>Photo Gallery.</b> | 3 |
Can Central Africa's Rain Forests Live With Logging? A study in Central Africa suggests that logging and tropical rain forests can coexist. Some environmental groups disagree. | 3 |
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight The Leonid meteor shower will peak tonight. Sky-watchers say long, glowing meteor trails will highlight the heavenly show. | 3 |
Calpers Tendered Its PeopleSoft Shares SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Calpers, the biggest U.S. pension fund, said on Thursday that it had tendered its 1.5 million shares of PeopleSoft Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PSFT.O</A> to Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A>, accepting its \$8.8 billion hostile takeover bid. | 2 |
Google sees Q4 rev growth slowdown NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Google said its revenue growth rate from the second to the third quarter of 2004 may not be sustainable into the fourth quarter of this year. | 2 |
David vs. Goliath vs. Goliath Laszlo Systems CTO David Temkin is taking an open-source gamble to woo Web developers from Macromedia and Microsoft. | 3 |
Athens Olympics Cost More Than Thought (AP) AP - The total cost of the Athens Olympics may exceed #36;14.6 billion, according to Greece's 2005 budget submitted to parliament Thursday. | 1 |
Study: Learning to Run Propelled Evolution long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man - was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today as humans. | 3 |
Got mail? You bet: Bill Gates gets millions of spam e-mails If you thought nobody could get more spam than you, think of Bill Gates. The chairman of Microsoft (MSFT) gets 4 million pieces of e-mail a day, most of it junk, says Steve Ballmer, Microsoft #39;s chief executive. | 3 |
MSN Renews with Overture -- For Now Microsoft today extended its 3-year-old agreement with Yahoo! to provide Overture paid listings on MSN sites in the US and Canada, Europe and Asia through June 2006. | 3 |
Duffield: Oracle's skewing facts on stock sales PeopleSoft's CEO fires back at rival, saying it's wrong about his stock transactions. Both companies scramble ahead of Friday deadline. | 3 |
Security Council agrees on Sudan resolution as foes pledge <b>...</b> NAIROBI (AFP) - UN ambassadors agreed here unanimously on the text of a resolution aimed at restoring peace to war-ravaged Sudan, as the country #39;s main foes promised to conclude talks on their 21-year-old conflict by the end of the year. | 0 |
US troops patrol Mosul US troops were seen out on patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today, following several days of clashes between insurgents and US-led forces. | 0 |
Body Found In Fallujah Believed To Be Slain Aid Worker Australia #39;s prime minister said it #39;s likely that a body found in the Iraqi city of Fallujah is that of aid worker Margaret Hassan. | 0 |
Thales, EADS have no merger plans: EADS chief (AFP) AFP - The French-British defence electronics group Thales and the European aerospace group EADS do not have a plan to merge, EADS co-chairman Philippe Camus said. | 0 |
Maverick MP Carolyn Parrish turfed from Liberal caucus (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Carolyn Parrish, the maverick MP who gained notoriety for her outspoken anti-Americanism, has been turfed from the Liberal party caucus. | 0 |
Make Love Not Spam Decentralized Lycos Europe released a screen saver that would pepper spam sites with requests for pages, in an effort to burden their bandwidth. Now it's disabled, but in very fixable ways... | 3 |
Iraqis, U.S. Hail Falluja Success, Threats Remain FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi government and U.S. commanders declared their offensive on rebel-held Falluja a success on Thursday but U.S. troops still faced dangers in the city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq. | 0 |
Cybersecurity and the question of leadership The success of the cybersecurity czar is more about the exercise of leadership than anything else, CompTIA policy chief Roger Cochetti says. | 3 |
A Misguided Merger Without clear strategic synergies, the recently announced merger between Sears and Kmart is likely to destroy shareholder value. | 2 |
Updated AOL focuses on security The revamped software for AOL's proprietary online service tackles spam and other Internet security issues. | 3 |
Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDs Banks aren't moving fast enough on requiring online customers to provide two forms of ID, the company says. | 3 |
Google Shares Fall on 4Q Revenue Warning Google Shares Slip As Co. Warns That Its 4Q Revenue Growth Rate Is Likely to Slow. The Google Inc. company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. | 2 |
Barrett: CEO Tours Intel India Unit, Sees Revenue Rise Go east, young man. Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Chief Executive Craig Barrett is traversing India. The CEO #39;s two-day trek will include a review of the chipmaker #39;s design center in bustling Bangalore | 2 |
US Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Off 3,000 to 334,000 The number of former workers continuing to receive state unemployment benefits fell by 16,000 to 2.79 million in the week ended November 6. The four-week average of continuing claims rose by 500 to 2.8 million. | 2 |
Calpers says tendered its PeopleSoft shares Calpers, the biggest US pension fund, on Thursday said it had tendered its 1.5 million shares of PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to Oracle Corp. | 2 |
Painkiller risk to gut revealed The risk of intestinal damage from common painkillers may be higher than thought, research suggests. | 0 |
Study: Learning to Run Propelled Evolution SALT LAKE CITY Nov 18, 2004 - New research suggests that developing the ability to run long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today | 3 |
Bill Gates gets 4 million e-mails a day SINGAPORE -- Bill Gates might not use AOL, but he #39;s definitely got mail. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives millions of Internet messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company #39;s chief executive. | 3 |
Paleontologists say fossil may be ancestor to great apes BARCELONA - A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday. | 3 |
New Microsoft Search Engine Rivals Google Microsoft, Yahoo and AskJeeves have adopted the quot;link analysis quot; algorithmic approach that gave Google a vast lead among search engines. | 3 |
AOL Tightens Security AOL has launched its 9.0 Security Edition, which includes McAfee #39;s VirusScan Online application, offering protection against infection from peer-to-peer file sharing, Web site downloads, CD-ROMs and disks, or multimedia files. | 3 |
Google Searches For Scholars Google late Wednesday rolled out a beta search tool designed for academics and other researchers digging through peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and theses. | 3 |
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight Astronomers say the show should be a good one. They note, however, that predicting meteor shower intensity is not always an exact science. | 3 |
Scott Speed moving up to F1 ? Red Bull Racing owner Dieter Mateschitz has not made his final choice for his team #39;s drivers line-up but he is not hiding his actual preferences. | 1 |
Controversy surrounding Owens #39; MNF promo touches deep social <b>...</b> I should #39;ve known this latest Terrell Owens story wouldn #39;t have vanished quickly. It involves sex, money, sports and, most critically, race. | 1 |
Va. Tech #39;s Beamer to coach despite mother #39;s death The mother of Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer died early Thursday morning, but Beamer said he will be on the sidelines for tonight #39;s game with Maryland, according to the school. | 1 |
Terps open ACC tournament The No. 7-seeded Terrapin volleyball team begins its ACC championship defense tonight in Charlottesville, Va., against No. 10-seed Wake Forest. | 1 |
Congress Told FDA Failed Public on Vioxx WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed the public in its oversight of Merck Co Inc.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MRK.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MRK.N</A> withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is "incapable of protecting America" from another dangerous drug, an agency researcher told Congress on Thursday. | 2 |
A Glimpse of Bristol-Myers' Portfolio Late-stage drugs are crucial for a company beset with patent losses. | 2 |
Google Warns of Slowing Growth quot;Although our revenue growth rate increased in the third quarter of 2004 compared to the second quarter of 2004, our revenue growth rate has generally declined, and we expect it will continue | 2 |
Economy: Raspy Second Wind After a batch of stronger-than-expected economic reports lately, some pundits have declared the quot;soft patch quot; dead. In fact, it could make an unwelcome return in the coming months. | 2 |
Rates on 30-Year, 15-Year Mortgages Dip Rates on 30-year and 15-year mortgages dipped this week, a development that should help keep the housing market humming. Rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.74 percent for the week ending Nov. | 2 |
Yukos lawyer faces arrest warrant Russian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Yukos #39; chief lawyer and arrested another executive from the oil firm on suspicion of embezzlement. | 2 |
Calif. insurance commish sues MetLife, Pru, others: report California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has sued MetLife, Prudential Financial Inc., Cigna Corp., and UnumProvident Corp. | 2 |
Human race off and running The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now -- whether winning a marathon, nursing a strained Achilles #39; tendon | 3 |
Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Miracle Blesses eBay A partially eaten piece of a grilled cheese sandwich has become the most talked about item on eBay over the past week, bringing in bids of almost \$19,000. | 3 |
Gates Gets 4M Spam Messages Each Day SINGAPORE -- Bill Gates, the chairman and founder of Microsoft, receives millions of e-mail messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company #39;s chief executive. | 3 |
Future of EU Patent Legislation in Doubt BRUSSELS, Belgium - The future of controversial European Union legislation that would allow for some software patents was in doubt Thursday after the Polish government switched sides, saying the directive could hurt small and medium-sized businesses. | 3 |
FIFA launches probe into Bernabeu abuse FIFA will hold an investigation and demand answers from the Spanish Football Federation after home fans hurled racist abuse at England #39;s black players in the friendly international between the two countries in Madrid last night. | 1 |
Men #39;s contest highlights Trophee Bompard skating Johnny Weir and Brian Joubert already have victories in the Grand Prix series. The American champion and European gold medalist meet this week at the Trophee Bompard. | 1 |
Device Allows Doctors to Practice Deliveries The birth simulator has now been used to determine the best way to deliver a baby whose shoulders become stuck in the birth canal. | 3 |
A Fantasy Field Trip to Jurassic Park The career of Richard Ellis advances the maxim that scientific knowledge is often moved forward by the work of committed amateurs. | 3 |
Militant groups back end of chaos Palestinian militant groups Thursday expressed support for disarming independent militias operating in the Palestinian territories. | 0 |
Merci la France: We Will Be Forever Grateful By honoring President Yasser Arafat, France has honored every Palestinian man, woman and child. For this we will be forever grateful. | 0 |
Arafat's Diagnosis May Soon Be Revealed (AP) AP - Nearly a week after his death, speculation still swirls around what killed Yasser Arafat. Cirrhosis of the liver, AIDS, a blood disorder and poisoning are frequently mentioned in unconfirmed reports #151; all consistent with the little that is publicly known about the medical condition that landed the Palestinian leader in a French hospital. | 0 |
Suspected Mastermind Held in Pakistan (AP) AP - Authorities have arrested a man they called the alleged mastermind of a deadly bombing near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi two years ago, but another key member of his network remains at large, a senior official said Thursday. | 0 |
Walmart.com Sees Electronics Leading Online Sales (Reuters) Reuters - Consumer electronics should be the\hottest online sellers this holiday, according to the head of\the online unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's top\retailer. | 3 |
Tories raise allegations of ties between NY mob and Gagliano (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper raised published allegations Thursday that former Liberal cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano was a member of a New York organized crime family. | 0 |
Oracle readies integration splash (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Dec. 5 plans to unveil Oracle Integration, a product that combines the company #8217;s application server with several other technologies for integration and enablement of SOAs (service-oriented architectures). | 3 |
Fossil Ape May Be Ancestor of All Apes -- Report (Reuters) Reuters - An ape that lived 13 million years\ago in what is now Spain may have been the last common ancestor\of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and\humans, researchers said on Thursday. | 3 |
Ancient Animal Could Be Human-Ape Ancestor (AP) AP - The last probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain. | 3 |
Several Insurgent Command Bases Found in Falluja, General Says A top Marine officer also denied reports that one of them was the headquarters of the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. | 0 |
UN Security Council, in Africa, Pushes Sudan Peace NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council, leaving its New York home for the first time in 14 years, met in the Kenyan capital on Thursday and won promises from Khartoum and rebels in south Sudan of an end to their 21-year civil war. | 0 |
Update 6: FDA Called #39;Defenseless #39; Against Bad Drugs The American public is quot;virtually defenseless quot; if another medication such as Vioxx proves to be unsafe after it is approved for sale, a government drug safety reviewer told a congressional committee Thursday. | 2 |
Not all great apes were swingers The fossil of an ancient species of ape, discovered at a construction site in western Spain, has revealed that great apes went through more evolutionary stages than previously thought. | 3 |
KOREA: Rumors Swirl over Missing Portraits Speculation surrounding the reported removal of portraits of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il from some public buildings and homes in North Korea continued to swirl Thursday but | 0 |
Airlift for earthquake-hit fish Japan's 'living jewel' koi carp are airlifted to safety after the Niigata earthquake devastated stocks of the ornamental fish. | 3 |
Sprinters Charged With Dodging Drug Test Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou and their coach were charged Thursday with avoiding a drug test on the eve of the Athens Olympics and faking a motorcycle accident hours later. | 1 |
Dow Near Flat; Nasdaq, S P 500 Down NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks rose slightly on Thursday after a court gave a boost to Altria Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MO.N</A> and other tobacco companies, but that was offset by a drop in McDonald's Corp. on new mad-cow worries. | 2 |
Photos: 'Wanna buy an iPod, guv?' Apple's new London store on Regent Street puts the iPod music player front and center. | 3 |
Dell's Photo All-In-One Printer 962 Dell's Photo All-In-One Printer 962 prints, scans, faxes and copies for \$179. | 3 |
Dell goes wireless with printers Company adds new level of convenience to home and office printing with wireless printer adapter and multifunction inkjet product.\<br />\ Photo: Dell All-In-One Printer 962 \ | 3 |
First Taste of a Once-Forbidden Fruit Long seen as a threatening land ruled by a madman, Libya has become a must-see destination ever since it opened its doors to Western tourists 10 months ago. | 0 |
Gadgets rule in digital household photos The NowHouse project in San Francisco brings together the latest in design, construction and digital wares.\ | 3 |
Photos: Handheld fever grips Japan Consumers get psyched for the release of Nintendo and Sony gaming devices. | 3 |
Cracker Barrel Rolling The country dining chain is weathering cost increases better than its rivals. | 2 |
Photo: Giant digital image A TNO engineer prepares to start capturing images for the world's biggest digital photo. | 3 |
Stern and Letterman Get Sirius Stern has a date with Letterman tonight, and you can expect fireworks. | 2 |
Seagate drive joins 400GB club The Barracuda 7200.8 series packs more data on the hard-drive platters. | 3 |
World's biggest digital pic Dutch engineers stitch together hundreds of images to create a photo with 2.5 billion pixels.<br /> Photo: Giant digital image | 3 |
Four vendors team up on new standardized Linux Four small Linux vendors are working together to create a new Linux Standard Base 2.0-compliant binary set that they hope will attract independent software vendors and hardware makers to port their wares to the new code. | 3 |
Burst.com says Microsoft destroyed evidence In court documents made public this week, Burst.com accused Microsoft managers of telling employees in 2000 to destroy evidence contained in old e-mails. | 3 |
West Coast retailer hits software rollout bumps Ross Stores has taken a hit to its bottom line because of ongoing problems surrounding the implementation of a merchandising system. | 3 |
Q A: Cordys president talks up Web services Justin Anderson, president of Cordys' Americas group, sat down yesterday with Computerworld at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit to talk about his company and its Web services platform. | 3 |
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