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Vivendi ups Moroccan phone stake Vivendi Universal increases its stake in Morocco's national telecoms business, days before it is partially floated. | 3 |
Nintendo Prepares Weekend Launch of New Handheld LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A generation of children grew up playing Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=7974.OS qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">7974.OS</A> Game Boy handheld video game system, and now that they've grown up, Nintendo has a new toy for them. | 3 |
China pledges efforts in fight against terrorism, corruption Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing vowed Thursday in Santiago to make joint efforts with other members of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in the fight against terrorism and corruption. | 0 |
UN sees surge in Afghan opium exports A UN report -- noting while opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was up 64 percent the past year, opium production had only increased 17 -- has still led one UN official | 0 |
Prince Charles embroiled in class controversy Britain #39;s Prince Charles was embroiled in a class controversy on Thursday, a day after a note expressing his candid thoughts about people who try to rise above their station in life was made public. | 0 |
Kashmir: Problem Won #39;t Go Away with Some Troops No, the verdant Kashmir Valley did not witness the return of peace this Wednesday. Quite a few Indians, however, may have rubbed their eyes as they saw on the television screen truckloads of | 0 |
Microsoft Warns Asian Governments of Linux Suits SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MSFT.O</A> warned Asian governments on Thursday they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software. | 3 |
D.C. College Students Targeted in Piracy Suit The recording industry's lobbying group today sued three users of American University's computer network, accusing them of illegally sharing digital music files online. They are among 761 suspected music pirates in the latest round of lawsuits. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</b></font> | 3 |
Ex-Viacom Chief Karmazin Joining Sirius Satellite Radio Mel Karmazin, the former president of media conglomerate Viacom Inc., is joining Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. as CEO, replacing Joseph Clayton, who is staying on as chairman, the company announced Thursday. | 3 |
Group Cites E-Voting Problems The record use of electronic voting machines on Nov. 2 led to hundreds of voting irregularities and shows the need for higher standards, a voting rights group said Thursday. | 3 |
XML security device unveiled Web-services security company releases appliance designed to authenticate access into business networks. | 3 |
Plenty to learn about services Conference focuses on challenges in services sector, such as how irritating Web-based self-service can be. | 3 |
State bill could kill city Wi-Fi Backers of a Philadelphia Wi-Fi project are worried that a bill going through the state legislature would spike a plan to blanket the city with free or inexpensive wireless access. Broadband Blog | 3 |
Calif. retirement fund tenders PeopleSoft shares Calpers joins group of big PeopleSoft investors backing a \$9.2 billion Oracle buyout. | 3 |
Start-up pitches high-end Web apps on the cheap ActiveGrid lands multimillion-dollar funding for plan to use open-source tools, low-cost servers for Web applications. | 3 |
Congress approves supercomputing bill Following report of security inadequacies, Congress passes bill for \$165 million in new supercomputing funds. | 3 |
IBM tops server speed test New top-end Power5-based Unix server has commanding lead in performance test of servers running a large database. | 3 |
AOL, Oracle tackle software safeguards Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place. | 3 |
Air Force turns to Microsoft for network security New deal aims to simplify and protect Air Force networks by introducing standard configurations. | 3 |
Following trend, Oracle sets schedule for patches Releases dates of quarterly bulletins for 2005 to allow companies to better plan system updates. | 3 |
Study: VoIP costs all over the map Companies trying to deploy Internet phone calling face varied costs depending on the technology provider, according to a report. | 3 |
VoIP: Today Des Moines, tomorrow the world Federal ruling makes Internet phone providers roll out services more actively. | 3 |
Photo: Super-slim TV tubes LG.Philips Displays' new picture tube line allows for thinner televisions.\ | 3 |
Slimmer tube TVs to challenge flat panels Television makers say 16-inch-thick tube sets will arrive next year at a fraction of the price of thin rivals. | 3 |
Wanna buy an iPod, guv? Apple's new store in London's West End has a 64-seat theater and a staff that speaks 24 languages.\<br />\ Photos: iPod lands in London | 3 |
Segway CEO scoots from company Ron Bills will take off next month, leaving Segway to find the fourth CEO in its short history. | 3 |
Dell offers Media Center on the cheap PC maker promotion lets customers upgrade from Windows XP Home to Windows XP Media Center Edition for half the price. | 3 |
Photos: iPod lands in London Apple's new London store on Regent Street puts the iPod music player front and center. | 3 |
Photo: Dell's Photo All-In-One Printer 962 Dell's Photo All-In-One Printer 962 prints, scans, faxes and copies for \$179. | 3 |
IT Forum: Exchange users to get more tools Although Microsoft won't announce the release date of the next version of its Exchange Server until next year, users can expect more management tools for existing versions in the meantime. | 3 |
LI firm #39;s cancer drug approved A breakthrough cancer drug made by a Long Island company won federal approval late Thursday in a major victory for cancer patients and the region #39;s budding biotech industry. | 2 |
Russian target Abramovich hit by 400m tax bill Chelsea football club #39;s owner, Roman Abramovich, has been hit with a 400m tax bill relating to his Russian oil company Sibneft, according to local reports, raising fears that he could be the next oligarch targeted by President Vladimir Putin in the | 2 |
University researchers challenge Bush win in Florida According to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increased support for President Bush compared to counties with paper ballots or optical scan equipment. | 3 |
Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day The next time you #39;re sifting through the mortgage offers, cheap Rolex watches or dubious business proposals from Nigeria, spare a thought for Bill Gates. | 3 |
Ape discovery fills gap in evolutionary jigsaw Scientists have found fossilised remains of what could be the last common ancestor to all the great apes living today. It will give scientists vital clues in charting the course of primate and, ultimately, human evolution. | 3 |
IBM Breaks Computing Speed Barrier IBM announced that an IBM POWER5(TM) processor-based IBM eServer(TM), running DB2 Universal Database(TM), has attained a milestone in computing history, soaring past the barrier of three million transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark and setting | 3 |
Spotted owl remains a threatened species, government says GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list. | 3 |
Racing: Best Mate in shape to hold challenge of Rembrandt Today #39;s The Day. Every blade of grass has been inspected and passed fit, every weather forecast scanned. Best Mate will, short of an overnight declaration of Armageddon, make his seasonal | 1 |
Cavaliers 106, Bobcats 89 LeBron James helped break the game open late in the second quarter by driving baseline for a windmill dunk, one of three crowd-pleasers among James #39; 19 points in Cleveland #39;s 106-89 victory Thursday night over Charlotte. | 1 |
UN warning over Afghan opium Afghanistan #39;s poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87 of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country #39;s descent into a drugs-based economy. | 0 |
Ministers line up to attack Charles as #39;patronising #39; The dispute between the Prince of Wales and the Government over education intensified last night when a second Cabinet minister rebuked the prince for claiming the current system fuelled unrealistic ambitions. | 0 |
Junta frees prisoners in Burma Burma #39;s military government began releasing almost 4,000 prisoners yesterday whose detentions were ruled irrelevant or improper, state-run radio and television said. | 0 |
Bush seems primed for Mideast push But the most important entry on Middle East watchers #39; list is George W. Bush: in for four more years. The recent death of Arafat, the Palestinian Authority president, creates an opportunity for the United | 0 |
Gateway expands Media Center PC lineup Media Center PCs allow users to record live television, burn DVDs and organize their digital media files. | 3 |
New Google Scholar search service aimed at academics It lets users search for scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, abstracts and technical reports from resources such as academic publishers, universities, professional societies and preprint repositories. | 3 |
Streaking Spurs Roll Past Sixers 88-80 (AP) AP - Tim Duncan scored a season-high 34 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the San Antonio Spurs to their fifth straight victory, 88-80 over the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night. | 1 |
Microsoft, Yahoo extend contract for Web ads The move comes at a time when Microsoft is sharpening its own tools and expertise in the area. | 3 |
Salesforce.com continues strong customer growth Company experiences 80 gain in customers in one year, to nearly 200,000. | 3 |
Cards' Smith, Berry, Dansby Questionable (AP) AP - Arizona starters Emmitt Smith, Bertrand Berry and Karlos Dansby are questionable for Sunday's game at Carolina after sitting out the Cardinals' practice on Thursday. | 1 |
Britain to Send Christmas Gifts to Troops (AP) AP - Pipes and pencils will be replaced by cameras and games when a 90-year-old royal tradition of sending gifts to British troops abroad is revived this Christmas, a defense spokesman said Thursday. | 0 |
W3C highlights Mobile Web Initiative at workshop Group seeks to make Web access for mobile device users as easy as it is for desktop users. | 3 |
Palestinians Seek Int'l Election Monitors (AP) AP - Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan. | 0 |
Oracle: PeopleSoft investors should tender shares With tomorrow's deadline approaching, Oracle today made another plea to PeopleSoft stockholders to tender their shares, telling them, "The choice is yours." | 3 |
No. 19 N.C. State Demolishes Elon 71-45 (AP) AP - Julius Hodge scored 17 points on his 21st birthday to join an exclusive group of Atlantic Coast Conference players, leading No. 19 North Carolina State past Elon 71-45 Thursday night in the semifinals of the BCA Invitational. | 1 |
Rural leaders put heat on Tory government as Alta election looms (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - EDMONTON (CP) - With just days to go before Monday's provincial election, Alberta's Tory government is taking some heat from rural municipal leaders over its provincial water policy and the handling of the mad cow crisis. | 0 |
Google sees benefits in corporate blogging Google, which implemented an internal Web log system behind its firewall about 18 months ago, has seen tremendous benefits from it and may in the future consider providing tools and expertise for this purpose to interested clients, a Google executive said. | 3 |
Do software users need indemnification? If purchasing software were as straightforward as buying a car, users would not have to think twice about the risk of intellectual property lawsuits. | 3 |
Patent hoarders intensify protection issue The chances of a user being sued for intellectual property (IP) infringement related to software usage are slim, industry observers say. But that may change, as some companies hoard patents for the express purpose of using them to extract money from sellers and users of software. | 3 |
Oracle to deliver security patches on quarterly basis Starting Jan. 18, Oracle will provide security patches for all of its products on a quarterly basis, a schedule it believes is most convenient for customers. | 3 |
Yahoo, SBC extend partnership, plan new services Yahoo and SBC Communications will collaborate to extend to cell phones and home entertainment devices some of the online services and content they currently provide to PC users.<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p><p><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.ifw.general/solaris;sz=1x1;ord=200301151450?" width="1" height="1" border="0"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;12204780;10550054;n?http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;12165994;10522295;g?http://www.sun.com/solaris10">Solaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.</a><br/>Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more\reasons for the world's most demanding businesses\to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform.\Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications\side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R),\AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems.\Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move\your business ahead today.</p> | 3 |
AOL developing file-backup service America Online Inc. (AOL) is developing a new service that will let its members back up files from their PCs on AOL data centers, so that the members will be able to recover files either deleted accidentally or lost due to a hard drive failure, an AOL executive said. | 3 |
Exchange users to get more tools Microsoft Corp. will announce the release date of the next version of its Exchange Server in the first half of 2005, but until the upgrade arrives users can expect more management tools for existing versions, a company executive said this week. | 3 |
AOL Developing File-Backup Service Members could have automatic access to easy backup on AOL servers. | 3 |
Microsoft, Yahoo Extend Contract for Web Ads Renegotiation may provide glimpse into Microsoft's search plans. | 3 |
Study Claims E-Voting Irregularities Found in Florida Even if so, state presidential results wouldn't shift. | 3 |
Enter your e-mail: Lycos Europe has found an attractive, but controversial, way to generate buzz about its business - give common folk the power to attack spammers. | 3 |
Belgian and Italian Banks Talk of Partnership Dexia, the Belgian financial services firm, and Sanpaolo IMI, the Italian bank, confirmed that they were in discussions about a partnership. | 2 |
Russia Seeks to Prosecute Two More at Yukos The Russian government issued an arrest warrant for the chief lawyer for Yukos and arrested a midlevel executive at a company subsidiary. | 2 |
Eisner Regrets Praising Ovitz on #39;Larry King #39; In a interview on CNN #39;s quot;Larry King Live quot; in September 1996, Michael D. Eisner, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, praised its former president, Michael S. Ovitz. | 2 |
Dollar Holds Gain on Concern Group of 20 Will Object to Decline The dollar held a one-day gain in Asia on speculation policy makers will express concern at its recent decline during a meeting of officials from the Group of 20 largest economies this weekend. | 2 |
#39;Lite #39; beer brand puts fizz into SABMiller profits The low-carbohydrate American beer Miller Lite, which is locked in a bitter brand war with its rival Bud Lite, was the star performer for SABMiller, helping the brewer to a 28 rise in half-year underlying operating profits. | 2 |
Gas leak from oil platform off SoCal triggers evacuation of crew OXNARD - A leak of explosive natural gas forced dozens of workers to evacuate an offshore oil platform for hours Thursday but no damage or injuries were reported. | 2 |
AOL 9.0 is Security Minded American Online (AOL) is releasing a new, more secure browser. Included in the package are a firewall, antivirus and a popup blocker all courtesy of McAfee - also included are dozens of other small utilities designed to keep users safe. | 3 |
IBM Says It Swamps Rivals in Key UNIX Computer Test IBM IBM.N said on Thursday its workhorse commercial computers have smashed the industry #39;s most demanding tests, which analysts said creates a performance gap that could | 3 |
Ferdinand almost quit Spain game Rio Ferdinand has said he was ready to come off the field after Spanish fans hurled abuse at England #39;s black players in Wednesday #39;s match. | 1 |
Second-Ranked Wake Forest Beats Virginia Commonwealth WINSTON-SALEM, NC (Sports Network) - Chris Paul scored 16 points to lead No. 2 Wake Forest over Virginia Commonwealth, 81-67, in the quarterfinal round of the Preseason NIT. | 1 |
Takeover offer for Sunderland FC Bob Murray, the chairman of Sunderland, is seeking to take full control of the football club after buying out fellow shareholder BSkyB. | 2 |
Jaguar negotiates 534m Ford aid Ford will inject 534m into Jaguar, after the UK car maker had to cover a writedown on its investments following a drop in production. | 2 |
N.Korea Denies Removal of Leader Kim Portraits-Xinhua Reports that portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a quot;groundless fabrication, quot; China #39;s Xinhua news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official on Friday as saying in Pyongyang. | 0 |
Pacers' Bender Out Indefinitely with Knee Injury (Reuters) Reuters - Indiana Pacers forward\Jonathan Bender will be out indefinitely due to his chronically\injured left knee. | 1 |
Pacers' Bender Out Indefinitely with Knee Injury INDIANAPOLIS (Sports Network) - Indiana Pacers forward Jonathan Bender will be out indefinitely due to his chronically injured left knee. | 1 |
Touchdowns and Milestones Pile Up for Martin Jets running back Curtis Martin needs just 16 yards on Sunday to become the second player to reach 1,000 yards in 10 consecutive seasons. | 1 |
Giants' Manning Gets Some Brotherly Advice: 'Don't Trip' Eli Manning, who will start his first professional game at quarterback on Sunday, insisted he would not try to establish his legacy in three hours. | 1 |
Ready to Get Started Cavaliers coach Pete Gillen believes his team is better than last season, but the improvement may not be enough to help Virginia contend in the Atlantic Coast Conference. | 1 |
Passing Marks in Peril Peyton Manning is on pace to shatter Dan Marino's single-season touchdown record and a second quarterback, Daunte Culpepper, is within striking distance of the mark. | 1 |
Memphis Stops St. Mary's Rodney Carney scores a career-high 33 points and Memphis ends the surprising tournament run of Saint Mary's with an 81-66 victory. | 1 |
Gilchrist Keeps Working The 15th-ranked Terps will look to John Gilchrist to take a central leadership role as they open the season against Jackson State. | 1 |
Dollar Sticks Near Lows TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar stayed in sight of historic lows against the euro on Friday as traders braced for a meeting of G20 finance ministers that is not expected to act against the dollar's weakness. | 2 |
For Merck Chief, Credibility at the Capitol Something finally went right yesterday for Raymond V. Gilmartin, the embattled chairman and chief executive of Merck amp; Company. | 2 |
Less Power, More Money for Sears Boss Alan J. Lacy will not be the top man at Sears, Roebuck amp; Company any longer if the announced merger with Kmart is completed. But he will receive a raise and could take out more than \$20 million by cashing out his existing options on Sears stock. | 2 |
Sirius Names Mel Karmazin as Its CEO In the latest coup for the fledgling satellite radio industry, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on Thursday named former Viacom Inc. President Mel Karmazin as its chief executive officer. | 2 |
UnumProvident Accepts Penalty The UnumProvident Corporation agreed to pay \$15 million in fines and reassess 200,000 denied claims to end investigations by attorneys general of several states | 2 |
PeopleSoft Chief Threatens to Sue Over Oracle Statements With Oracle #39;s \$9.2 billion tender offer for PeopleSoft set to expire Friday, David A. Duffield, PeopleSoft #39;s chief executive, accused Oracle on Thursday of spreading | 2 |
SABMiller #39;s profits soar 81 SABMiller, the worlds third biggest brewer, poured out a strong interim trading performance yesterday - as it also said it had a potential warchest of up to \$2 billion (1.08bn) if a major acquisition opportunity occurred. | 2 |
French Growth Halted in Third Quarter (AP) AP - France's economic growth ground to a halt in the third quarter of 2004, the official statistics agency Insee said Tuesday, reducing its earlier estimate of a 0.1 percent expansion. | 2 |
Rayovac to Buy United Industries (Reuters) Reuters - Battery maker Rayovac Corp. on\Tuesday said it would buy United Industries Corp., a maker of\lawn and garden products, for about #36;476 million in cash and\stock in a bid to diversify its product mix. | 2 |
Microsoft warns Asian governments of Linux suits NOVEMBER 18, 2004 (REUTERS) - Microsoft Corp. warned Asian governments today that they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software. | 3 |
U2 iPod on sale in Europe #39;Saturday #39; Apple today confirmed that the new special edition U2 iPod will go on sale in the UK on November 20. Launching Apple #39;s new London store, senior vice president of retail Ron Johnson, said: quot;The | 3 |
lab fires analyst over falsified tests Orchid Cellmark, a Montgomery County-based laboratory that has analyzed DNA for such high-profile cases as the OJ Simpson trial and the JonBenet Ramsey murder, has fired an analyst for allegedly | 3 |
Spotted Owl to Stay on Threatened List The northern spotted owl, the bird at the center of the Pacific Northwest logging wars, will stay on the threatened species list, the government said Thursday. | 3 |
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