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Spamming the Big Fish Bill Gates may be the most-spammed person in the world. The Microsoft chairman receives about four million e-mails a day, most of them spam, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. | 3 |
Microsoft raises FUD over patents Microsoft has responded to our story yesterday about it threatening Asian governments that, if they choose Linux, they may get sued - possibly by one of the holders of the quot;more | 3 |
Bones of Possible Missing Link Unearthed in Spain Scientists believe they may have found the remains of an extinct species of ape that would be the last common ancestor humans shared with chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates during a dig in Spain. | 3 |
#39;Electronic eye #39; helps blind across the road An electronic quot;artificial eye quot;, developed for people with impaired vision, has been shown to reliably identify pedestrian crossings, determine when it is safe to walk across and even measure the width of a road. | 3 |
State news of national interest GERMANTOWN, Md. - An analyst at Cellmark #39;s DNA testing laboratory was fired for allegedly falsifying data. Cellmark, the world #39;s largest private DNA testing firm, says the falsification occurred in only | 3 |
Apple To Open London Store its 99th retail outlet and the first in Europe -- to sell Macintosh computers and the popular iPod music players. The opening follows close on the | 3 |
Honda to take stake in BAR-Honda F1 team Honda Motor Co. will own a stake in BAR-Honda for the first time since the Japanese automaker rejoined Formula One racing in 2000. | 1 |
Favre, Tice can #39;t help but admire their NFC North enemies His teammates charged onto the Lambeau Field grass like high school kids who #39;d just captured a state championship, basking in the glory of Ryan Longwell #39;s game-ending 33-yard field goal. | 1 |
Around the CFL: The Argos are all business Head coach Mike quot;Pinball quot; Clemons and the Toronto Argonauts are all business this week heading into Sunday #39;s Grey Cup matchup against British Columbia at Frank Clair Stadium. | 1 |
Winky: #39;I #39;m going to dominate Shane #39; At this time last year, Winky Wright was just another anonymous belt-holder. Despite having the IBF junior middleweight trinket, he was on the outside looking in at all the other big fights taking place around him. | 1 |
2004 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit - Chile In this edition of Perspective, we #39;ll take a look at some of the issues at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC Summit in Chile. | 0 |
FCC Updates Congress on Cable TV Prices Letting cable TV subscribers pay for only the channels they want won't reduce the cost for most, federal regulators told Congress in a report released Friday. Consumer groups immediately attacked the study as flawed. | 3 |
Battered Wife Wins Suit Against Md. Matchmaker Bethesda-based company didn't screen clients properly or help when she reported abuse, Ukrainian woman alleged. | 3 |
The Fool's Look Ahead It will be a short trading week, but that is probably the best reason to take a long, hard look at some of the companies that will be in the news. | 2 |
Greenspan sceptical about central bank intervention on forex markets (AFP) AFP - US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared to be sceptical about the efficacy of any central bank intervention to prop up the dollar. | 2 |
Movie Gallery Bids for Hollywood Video (Reuters) Reuters - Movie Gallery Inc. on Friday\offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment\Corp. for an undisclosed sum, one week after industry\leader Blockbuster Inc. bid about #36;700 million for\Hollywood. | 2 |
Worm salutes Microsoft After a relatively quiet fall, mass-mailing worm begins to spread on Windows PCs. Meanwhile, the Air Force turns to Microsoft for security help. | 3 |
Sober worm variant shimmies New version of mass-mailing worm promises German speakers pictures of a naked go-go dancer seeking employment. | 3 |
AstraZeneca Shares Fall on Crestor Worry LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in AstraZeneca Plc fell as much as 10 percent on Friday after regulators in the United States and Europe raised safety concerns about the Anglo-Swedish drug maker's anti-cholesterol treatment Crestor. | 2 |
Movie Gallery Bids for Hollywood Video NEW YORK (Reuters) - Movie Gallery Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MOVI.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MOVI.O</A> on Friday offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HLYW.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HLYW.O</A> for an undisclosed sum, one week after industry leader Blockbuster Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BBI.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BBI.N</A> bid about \$700 million for Hollywood. | 2 |
J.M. Smucker Disappoints, Sales Flat CHICAGO (Reuters) - J.M. Smucker Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SJM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SJM.N</A> on Friday posted an 18.5 percent rise in quarterly profit, but its shares fell as much as 5 percent as sales were nearly flat excluding an acquisition. | 2 |
Pressure mounts on EDS over U.K. government IT system grows LONDON -- After continuous computer failures forced the top civil servant of the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions' Child Support Agency (CSA) to step down from his job this week, the government is considering scrapping a welfare case management and telephony system developed in large part by Electronic Data Systems (EDS). | 3 |
CORRECTED - UPDATE 2-Greenspan warns appetite for dollar to <b>...</b> In FRANKFURT story headlined quot;UPDATE 2-Greenspan warns appetite for dollar to dwindle quot; please read in paragraph 13 ... said Jason Bonanca ... instead of ... said Jason Bonaca ... (adds dropped letter). FRANKFURT | 2 |
Oil soars back near \$48 NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Oil prices soared Friday as worries about heating fuel supplies and technical trading factors pushed prices sharply higher. | 2 |
Stocks step back NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Stocks edged lower early Friday with some lingering weakness in the tech sector, weakness in the dollar and higher oil prices in the background.. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite (up | 2 |
EMI upbeat on music business A WEAK dollar and a lack of major album releases saw music giant EMI #39;s sales slide again in the past six months. But chairman Eric Nicoli sang an uncharacteristically upbeat tune today when he said sales in | 2 |
Morning business news TIMES STILL TOUGH FOR WATERFORD - Waterford Wedgwood has issued interim results for the six months to the end of September. Conditions remain tough for the group. | 2 |
Bill Gates sees spam quot;under control quot; in two years MADRID, Nov 19 (AFP) - Spam, the junk mail that clogs the in-box of hundreds of millions of e-mail users, could become a thing of the past in around two years time, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on a visit to Madrid on Friday. | 3 |
Recording Cos. Sue 761 for Music Swapping LOS ANGELES Nov 19, 2004 - The recording industry has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users, the latest round of litigation in the record companies #39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online. | 3 |
Microsoft renews Yahoo! ad contract Microsoft Corp has renewed its deal with Overture Services Inc, owned by rival Yahoo! Inc for another year until June 2006, the companies have announced. | 3 |
NASA sets Swift launch for Saturday Swift #39;s new launch date is Saturday, if NASA, Boeing and the Air Force can replace and test components of the rocket in time. The gamma-ray observatory #39;s | 3 |
Md. DNA lab fires analyst GERMANTOWN, Md. -- The world #39;s largest private DNA testing firm has fired an analyst for allegedly falsifying test data. Officials with Orchid Cellmark - with labs in Maryland, Texas, Tennessee and Britain | 3 |
DoCoMo taps up Linux and Symbian for common aim DoCoMo has tapped up handset vendors to create the platform, which works with both Linux and Symbian phones, working with NEC and Panasonic on the former and Fujitsu on the latter. | 3 |
England leads at World Cup of Golf Englishmen Paul Casey and Luke Donald surged to a five-stroke lead in the second round of the team World Cup, shooting an 8-under-par 64 on Friday for a two-round total of 19-under 125. | 1 |
UN adopts resolution on Sudan, slammed by aid agencies as 'weak' (AFP) AFP - The Khartoum government and rebels pledged to sign a final accord ending a two-decade war in southern Sudan by the end of the year, as the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution pushing for peace in the war-ravaged country. | 0 |
U.S. Commander: N. Korea May Sell Nukes (AP) AP - Impoverished North Korea might resort to selling weapons-grade plutonium to terrorists for much-needed cash, and that would be "disastrous for the world," the top U.S. military commander in South Korea said Friday. | 0 |
Stocks narrowly mixed.. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 32 points. Decliners on the New York Stock Exchange hold an eight-to-seven lead over advancers. | 2 |
Palestinians cool to apparent softening by Sharon Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apparently has softened his stance that Palestinians must crack down on militants before he will restart peace talks, but Palestinian leaders on Friday said Sharon should go further and drop all | 0 |
AFGHAN OPIUM GROWING UP TWO THIRDS Opium cultivation in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report that warns the countrys economy could be forced to rely on poppy growing largely wiped out under the hardline Taliban militia. | 0 |
Sharon 'eases' talks conditions Israeli PM Ariel Sharon appears to have eased his preconditions for resuming talks with the Palestinians. | 0 |
Voq Pro smart phone <strong><cite>Reg</cite> review</strong> A great idea - just a year too late? | 3 |
Casey, Donald Five Ahead at World Cup (AP) AP - Englishmen Paul Casey and Luke Donald surged to a five-stroke lead in the second round of the team World Cup on Friday after shooting an 8-under-par 64. | 1 |
Serbia seeks support for budget Serbia's government seeks support from parliament for its 2005 budget, which includes tax breaks, more welfare benefits and a "modest" deficit. | 2 |
Bush Signs Into Law Debt Ceiling Increase (Reuters) Reuters - President Bush on Friday signed into\law a measure authorizing an #36;800 billion increase in the\credit limit of the United States, the White House said. | 2 |
BT launches mobile phone service BT launches a new mobile phone service, three years after spinning-off its MM02 subsidiary. | 2 |
The Perfect Business To determine how good a company is, it helps to consider the characteristics of the perfect business. | 2 |
Russia Advances Plans to Break Up Yukos Russia moved ahead Friday with plans to break up the country #39;s largest oil producer over unpaid back tax bills, announcing it would auction off a majority stake in the main production unit of oil giant OAO Yukos next month. | 2 |
Crematory to Draw Guilty Plea Nearly three years after grabbing international headlines, the grisly Tri-State Crematory case creeps closer to its end Friday morning. | 2 |
Recording Cos. Sue 761 for Music Swapping (AP) AP - The recording industry has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users, the latest round of litigation in the record companies' effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online. | 3 |
Chirac tries to ease Franco-British tensions over Iraq (AFP) AFP - Visiting French President Jacques Chirac hailed "a very strong historical link" between London and Paris, while arguing his case for a multipolar and interdependent world. | 0 |
Bill Gates Gets 4 Million Spams A Day Junk e-mail, more commonly know as spam, clogs inboxes world wide, and wastes millions in thus far vain attempt to curb nuisance. It is likely that no one | 3 |
Spanish FA sorry for racist taunts LONDON, England -- The English FA has received a letter of apology from the Spanish FA after fans racially abused England players during Wednesday #39;s match in Madrid. | 1 |
It was a mutual decision insists Richards Talking in a teleconference this afternoon, David Richards insisted that the ending of the quot;consultancy contract quot; between BAR and Prodive, and his subsequent departure from the team, was a mutual decision. | 1 |
Quieroz defends under-fire Rooney REDS coach Carlos Quieroz believes Wayne Rooney has received an excessive amount of criticism due to being a Manchester United player. | 1 |
Raptors shipping Carter to Blazers: report CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Talk of a trade between the Toronto Raptors and the Portland Trail Blazers involving marquee players Vince Carter and Shareef Abdur-Rahim is quot;more than just a rumour, quot; says a source close to the Trail Blazers. | 1 |
US team to search for remains of 2,000 soldiers in North Korea (AFP) AFP - North Korea has agreed to allow US investigators to search for the remains of more than 2,000 members of the US armed forces missing in action from the Korean War, US officials said. | 0 |
No. 19 Pitt QB Palco Throws 5 TDs in Win (AP) AP - Tyler Palko threw for a career-high 411 yards and five touchdowns in three quarters Saturday, helping No. 19 Pittsburgh rout South Florida 43-14 and virtually assure the Panthers the Big East spot in the Bowl Championship Series. | 1 |
Agency: Less Than 30 Chinese Tigers Left in Wild (Reuters) Reuters - South China tigers, among the rarest of\the five remaining tiger subspecies, are on the verge of\extinction in the wild with less than 30 remaining, Xinhua news\agency said on Friday, citing a recent survey. | 3 |
US envoy tells Ukraine leaders to hold fair vote (AFP) AFP - A top US senator met outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to urge him to ensure a fair presidential election at the weekend, amid opposition warnings of massive vote-rigging to ensure victory for Kuchma's protege. | 0 |
Imagine That! Star Patterns to Ponder (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - In our current evening sky \ we have one of the earliest soap-operalike stories, with two independent plots \ becoming intertwined into one. Perhaps we could call it the celestial version \ of quot;All My Children. quot; | 3 |
Quantum Astronomy: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - This is the second article in a series of four articles each with a separate explanation of different quantum phenomena. Each article is a piece of a mosaic, so every one is needed to understand the final explanation of the quantum astronomy experiment we propose, possibly using the Allen Array Telescope and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. | 3 |
Bomb Kills Veneuelan Prosecutor A car bomb killed a top Venezuelan prosecutor investigating opponents of President Hugo Chavez who were accused of backing a 2002 coup attempt against the leftist leader, officials said Friday. | 0 |
Bomb Kills Venezuela Prosecutor Leading Coup Probe <p></p><p> By Patrick Markey</p><p> CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - A car bomb killed a topVenezuelan prosecutor investigating opponents of President HugoChavez who were accused of backing a 2002 coup attempt againstthe leftist leader, officials said on Friday.</p> | 0 |
No. 9 N.C. Holds Off No. 8 Kentucky 91-78 (AP) AP - North Carolina finally beat Kentucky again, thanks to Rashad McCants and Sean May. Jawad Williams helped a bunch, too. | 1 |
Putting Linux on notice roundup Large-scale Linux users could find themselves in a costly patent pickle, warns Steve Ballmer. | 3 |
Sober worm causes headaches After a fairly quiet fall, mass-mailing worm starts to spread on Windows PCs. Plus: Air Force turns to Microsoft for security help. | 3 |
Nintendo aims for older crowd with DS Video game giant will be moving past Pokemon pack when it launches the DS on Sunday. \ | 3 |
Dollar Plunges on Greenspan Comments The dollar sank across the board, dropping to multiyear lows against the yen and the euro on Friday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said demand for US | 2 |
KMG Chemicals Stock Soars on 1Q Earnings KMG Chemicals Inc. ended the week on a strong note as its stock surged some 130 percent after the pesticide maker handed Wall Street fiscal first-quarter profit that more than doubled from last year. | 2 |
Novell Shares Slide on Missed Estimates Novell Inc. shares slid Friday after the Linux software vendor swung to a fourth-quarter profit but still didn #39;t meet analyst expectations during a period one Wall Street bank called disappointing. | 2 |
Asia-Pac a key software market: Ballmer MICROSOFT chief executive officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday stressed the importance of the Asia-Pacific region to the world #39;s top software maker when he was addressing | 3 |
Nintendo aims for older crowd with DS Nintendo is after a new kind of customer, and this time the Japanese game giant doesn #39;t have Pokemon to back it up. The company #39;s new DS, an advanced handheld player meant to expand a market Nintendo already | 3 |
Peruse most any cookbook, I suppose, and eventually you #39;ll stumble <b>...</b> Make sandwich out of ingredients. Heat in skillet until browned image of Virgin Mary mysteriously appears. Let cool in clear plastic box with cotton balls for a decade, or until desired cheese consistency. | 3 |
Wolverines should ride Hart and hope to establish early lead It was tailback Chris Perry #39;s 15-yard touchdown run in the final quarter last year that clinched Michigan #39;s victory over Ohio State and helped send the Wolverines to the Rose Bowl. | 1 |
Nephew leaves Gaza for France to receive Arafat #39;s death report Nasser al-Qedwa, Palestinian delegate to the United Nations and a nephew of late leader Yasser Arafat,left here for France on Friday to receive Arafat #39;s death report,the Arabic-language Radio Sawa reported. | 0 |
Troops storm Baghdad mosque storm the Hanifa mosque. Witnesses said worshippers threw shoes at the troops -- a grave insult in Islam -- and soldiers. forces despite a bloody rout of insurgents in the Sunni Muslim bastion of Falluja. | 0 |
Oracle, PeopleSoft prepared for midnight offer deadline The Friday midnight expiration for Oracle's tender offer to PeopleSoft's shareholders for control of the company will either end the software rivals' bitter, 17-month battle or increase its ferocity. | 3 |
Suicide Bomber Kills 8 Iraqi Police Officers A suicide bomber rammed a minibus packed with explosives into a police station near Baghdad's protected Green Zone on Saturday morning. | 0 |
Takers Line Up To Buy Hollywood Video Stores FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Movie Gallery video rental chain said Friday it #39;s offered to acquire video rental rival Hollywood Entertainment. | 2 |
Apollo to buy Goodman Global for \$1.43B HOUSTON -- Investment firm Apollo Management LP said it agreed to acquire Goodman Global Holdings Inc., a maker of air conditioners and heating equipment, for \$1.43 billion. | 2 |
Stocks Open Higher After CPI, HP Earnings US stocks opened higher on Wednesday after news that core inflation rose only slightly more than expected last month. Strong earnings from computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. | 2 |
Cable television a la carte S outheast Portland resident Jerry Lindquist enjoys watching automotive programs, educational channels and TV shows on popular science. | 2 |
Hibbett 3Q Profit Rises to \$6.3 Million Athletic retailer Hibbett Sporting Goods Inc. said Thursday that profit rose 17 percent in the fiscal third quarter on high sales of footwear and team equipment. | 2 |
Intel lays deeper Indian foundations Chipmaker Intel will spend \$40m to expand in the southern Indian city of Bangalore over the next two years. Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett on Friday laid the foundation of a new Intel building in Bangalore | 2 |
Humans Ran Into Evolution Walking upright has long been accepted as one of the fundamental abilities that separated early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins. | 3 |
Ballmer Warns Asian Officials of Linux Suits Microsoft has warned Asian governments that they may face lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of Windows. Speaking to government officials in Singapore Thursday as part of a five-day visit | 3 |
Alert: New Sober Variant A new variant of the Sober worm is rapidly spreading via e-mail. Visit the Virus Threat Center for breaking news and the latest alerts. | 3 |
DoCoMo standardizes on Symbian OS, and on Linux The Japanese carrier will be standardizing on Symbian for their 3G mobile phone platform, and they will ship 3G phones based on Linux. | 3 |
Half-Life 2 users bitten by bugs Several Half-Life 2 users who finally got the long-delayed game into their hands yesterday got exactly what they didn #39;t want--more delays. | 3 |
Man indicted in eBay fraud A San Lorenzo man defrauded eBay users of thousands of dollars in auctions for rare Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan sports cards, according to a federal grand jury indictment handed up Wednesday in San Jose. | 3 |
Duo boost England hopes Luke Donald and Paul Casey took a giant stride towards what would be only the second-ever victory for England in golf #39;s World Cup. | 1 |
Iordanescu resigns as Romania coach Romania, depleted by injuries and suspensions, lost top spot in Group One after a 1-1 draw in Yerevan which handed Armenia their first point in five matches. | 1 |
Racism on trial in La Liga The behaviour of Barcelona fans at Saturday #39;s game against archrivals Real Madrid will be in sharp focus after Spanish football fans covered themselves in shame with their racist chanting against the black England players on Wednesday. | 1 |
Bush to name choice to lead Education Dept. WASHINGTON -- President Bush today will nominate Margaret Spellings, his chief domestic policy adviser, as secretary of education -- making her the third senior White House staff member selected to lead a key agency in his second term -- senior | 0 |
Prince Charles right or wrong? The Education Secretary Charles Clarke criticised Prince Charles as quot;old-fashioned quot; after he said the quot;learning culture quot; gave people hope beyond their capabilities. | 0 |
Powell States Preference for Diplomacy (AP) AP - In a candid interview with his time in office running out, Secretary of State Colin Powell is acknowledging differences with others in the Bush administration and suggesting that the disputes centered on his preference for diplomacy over force to resolve problems. | 0 |
Israel probes body abuse claims The Israeli army says it is investigating newspaper claims of the abuse of dead Palestinians by its soldiers. | 0 |
Revelations Only Confirm Suspicions About Drugs Only the nave or willfully ignorant seem not to understand that drug use has been widespread for many years in elite sport. The | 0 |
Dow, S P, Nasdaq All Down NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday, led by pharmaceutical shares after a U.S. health official raised concerns about drug safety and a drop in chip-equipment makers following a ratings downgrade by Goldman Sachs. | 2 |
Bush Signs Into Law Debt Ceiling Increase WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Friday signed into law a measure authorizing an \$800 billion increase in the credit limit of the United States, the White House said. | 2 |
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