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Judge Will Mull Voiding UAL Union Deals CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge agreed on Friday to consider a motion by United Airlines <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UALAQ.OB target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UALAQ.OB</A> to cancel its union contracts to save \$725 million annually. | 2 |
A Hot Prospect for Hidden Gems Though I #39;ve spent a good portion of my life living in the Southeast, I didn #39;t stumble upon Hibbett Sporting Goods (Nasdaq: HIBB) in real life. | 2 |
FDA Clears Genentech #39;s Tarceva For Lung Cancer On Thursday, biotechnology companies Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. said US regulators have approved their drug Tarceva for treating the most common form of lung cancer. | 2 |
Rocket Maker, Rule Breaker? SpaceDev does things that the big boys can't afford to do. Unfortunately, that includes losing money for a long time. | 2 |
Casual Male's Uphill Climb Casual Male caters to a big clientele but has to overcome a hefty debt load. | 2 |
Electronics Boutique Quintuples Earnings Video game retailer posts strong results leading into holiday quarter. | 2 |
"Brain" in Dish Flies Simulated Fighter Jet Scientists have grown a "brain" in a petri dish that can fly a simulated F-22 fighter airplane. It's all part of a quest to build "living" computers. | 3 |
"National Treasure": Freemasons, Fact, and Fiction <I>National Treasure,</I> the new Nicolas Cage movie, plays to the public's fascination with conspiracy theories and secret societies like the Freemasons. So how true is it? | 3 |
Luxury and Conservation at Dubai's Desert Haven A new nature preserve and resort in Dubai has set aside 4.8 percent of the desert emirate's total landmass for conservation. | 3 |
Ancient Ape Discovered: Last Ape-Human Ancestor? In Spain scientists have discovered 13-million-year-old fossils of a new species of ape. The species may have been the last common ancestor of humans and all great apes living today. <b>Includes photo gallery.</b> | 3 |
FDA expert accuses agency over Vioxx The US is virtually defenceless against another scandal such as Vioxx, senators investigating Mercks withdrawal of its popular painkiller were told yesterday. | 2 |
Russia set to auction off oil giant to recoup unpaid taxes Russian oil giant OAO NK Yukos has finally run out of options after a prolonged attempt to stave off bankruptcy that culminated earlier this week in a government raid on its offices. | 2 |
Nvidia to put more force behind Intel processors Graphics chip maker Nvidia on Friday made public plans to create a version of its nForce chipset for Intel processor PCs. That #39;s something Nvidia couldn #39;t legally do in the past, but can now, thanks to a broad patent swap with Intel. | 2 |
Web shoppers open their wallets wider Web sites racked up \$17.6 billion in retail sales in the third quarter, according to estimates released Friday by the US Commerce Department. | 2 |
Judge to Mull UAL Bid to Void Labor Pacts A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday agreed to consider a motion by United Airlines to cancel its union contracts to save \$725 million annually. | 2 |
Flights Grounded During Italian Controller Strike Hundreds of flights were canceled and many others delayed on Friday due to a four-hour air traffic controllers #39; strike in Italy, when unions protested against plans to centralize control of central Europe #39;s upper-airspace. | 2 |
Congress Reapproves Internet Access Tax Ban The US Congress on Friday reinstated a ban on Internet access taxes after the House of Representatives agreed to extend it for another three years rather than make it permanent. | 2 |
Electronics Boutique Quintuples Earnings No, that #39;s not a typo. After the bell yesterday, Electronics Boutique (Nasdaq: ELBO) reported that earnings had increased fivefold to \$7.3 million, or \$0.30 per share, beating analysts #39; estimates by a penny. | 2 |
GM hasn #39;t yet ruled out using Stelco steel in #39;05 General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it may not dump Stelco Inc. (STEa.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) as a supplier even though Canada #39;s | 2 |
Supermarket chain Loblaw #39;s profit up 18 at \$258M with merchandise <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - Cost-cutting and a further shift toward higher-margin general merchandise in new stores helped Loblaw Cos. Ltd. grow its quarterly profit by 18 per cent, executives at Canada #39;s biggest supermarket chain said Friday. | 2 |
Novell revenue up as SUSE investment shows promise Networking and Linux vendor Novell reported a profit of \$57.1 million for fiscal 2004 and said its Linux offerings are allowing the company to reach new customers. | 3 |
Chicago Bears Winning With Defense (AP) AP - Messages and cards came from all over, congratulating defensive end Michael Haynes on his rare touchdown. When Haynes stuck up his hand and deflected a pass to himself before rumbling 45 yards for a Chicago Bears score last week, he did more than point his team to victory at Tennessee. | 1 |
al-Qaida Hunt Achieved Limited Success (AP) AP - The two suspected masterminds of the Istanbul suicide bombings are at large a year after the blasts in a scenario that's being played out around the world: police quickly make arrests, but often struggle for years to catch the organizers of terror attacks. | 0 |
Ballmer on Linux, part II Initial coverage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer #39;s comments during an event in Singapore yesterday left the folks back at headquarters in Redmond trying to clarify things and put them in context. | 3 |
Hotmail Upgrade Finally Starts As the mailbox storage space rivalry continues, Hotmail has now begun upgrading the email account of its users. According to reports the upgrade will be in a phased manner, beginning from the United States and Europe, and later moving on to other regions. | 3 |
Fast-Spreading Sober Worm Up In Europe, Heading To US A new Sober worm began spreading early Friday morning in Europe and quickly gained enough traction worldwide that security companies scrambled to warn users and produce new signatures to deflect the attack. | 3 |
Google sees benefits in corporate blogging Google has seen many benefits from its internal Web log system and may consider providing blogging tools and expertise to corporate clients, a company executive said. | 3 |
Agassi Wins Appeal Against British Tax Ruling Former world number one tennis player Andre Agassi has won his appeal against a High Court ruling that athletes and other professional entertainers are liable to tax on sponsors #39; payments while working in Britain. | 1 |
SI.com #39;s BJ Schecter breaks down a key Mountain West showdown Utes coach Urban Meyer is one of the hottest offensive minds in the nation and Utah will run wild formations with misdirection and trick plays. | 1 |
Iordanescu steps down as Romania coach Bucharest, Romania (Sports Network) - Anghel Iordanescu resigned as coach of Romania Friday following Wednesday #39;s disappointing 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw with Armenia. | 1 |
IBM, Fla. university look to autonomic computing research IBM will supply Florida International University with hardware and software so the university can do research on how technology can be used to better protect patient privacy and reduce waiting room time. | 3 |
California employee pension fund tenders PeopleSoft shares to Oracle The California Employees' Retirement System voted Wednesday to tender its 1.5 million PeopleSoft shares to Oracle, giving the hostile suitor a boost in the final days of its takeover bid. | 3 |
Source of Powell #39;s Iran intelligence under scrutiny The source of intelligence used this week by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to suggest Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program may not be reliable, knowledgeable sources told CNN Friday. | 0 |
Santiago march turns violent Santiago - Chilean anti-riot police fired water-cannon and tear gas on Friday at bands of stone-throwing protesters in a massive rally against a major Asia-Pacific summit. | 0 |
MS strategy pushes it to cross-platform support COPENHAGEN - Microsoft Corp. wrapped up its IT Forum in Copenhagen this week by singing the praises of new management tools that are part of a long-term vision for reducing IT complexity. But behind its more vocal announcements there emerged another significant tune, one that suggested that the software maker will have to be more willing to play with platforms from other companies in order to deliver its new strategy. | 3 |
Yukos Unit To Be Auctioned Off Next Month The heart of the Yukos oil empire will be auctioned by the government next month for what could be a bargain price to pay back a mounting multibillion-dollar tax bill -- a dramatic finale to a relentless 18-month official probe that could destroy Russia's largest oil producer. A top Yukos manager slammed the plans as "government-organized theft." | 2 |
Ukraine's Face Is Mirrored in a Candidate Many Ukrainians believe that Viktor A. Yushchenko is their best hope for changing Soviet-style governance. | 0 |
Icahn, Group Offers to Buy Mylan Labs Veteran financier Carl Icahn said he and a group of investors are willing to buy Mylan Laboratories Inc. for \$20 per share, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | 2 |
New Orleans Lineman Has Unique Motivation (AP) AP - New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant has a unique way of preparing for games. He imagines the players that line up across from him are the men who beat his mother over the years, the employers who took advantage of her or the people who ran out on her. | 1 |
Greenspan: Appetite for Dollar Will Wane (Reuters) Reuters - Investors' appetite for U.S. assets\will eventually dwindle and the United States must reduce its\budget deficit to prevent major economic damage, Federal\Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday, in remarks that\hit the dollar hard. | 2 |
Experts Fear Medicare Won't Work for Nursing Home Patients Many cannot easily shop around for the best bargains on their drugs, as other Medicare beneficiaries are supposed to do. | 0 |
Greenspan: Appetite for Dollar Will Wane FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Investors' appetite for U.S. assets will eventually dwindle and the United States must reduce its budget deficit to prevent major economic damage, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday, in remarks that hit the dollar hard. | 2 |
Stocks Tumble; Greenspan Jolts Investors NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday as investors were jolted by a \$2 jump in oil prices and a warning from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that the dollar had further to fall. | 2 |
Greenspan Warns, Treasuries Recoil NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices slid on Friday after Fed chief Alan Greenspan spooked investors with an unusually direct reminder that interest rates were bound to move higher. | 2 |
Judge to Mull UAL Bid to Void Labor Pacts CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday agreed to consider a motion by United Airlines to cancel its union contracts to save \$725 million annually. | 2 |
Oracle's PeopleSoft Bid Deadline Nears SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A> on Friday won the backing of another key public pension fund in its \$8.8-billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PSFT.O</A> as the 17-month takeover battle between the two California-based business software makers neared a key deadline. | 2 |
Italian budget airline grounded Volare, Italy's first budget airline, cancels all flights and ticket sales indefinitely amid reports of a financial crisis. | 2 |
Holiday travel may bring little cheer A POTENTIAL flight attendants #39; strike and record crowds at the nation #39;s airports could combine to make travel the most cheerless aspect of this holiday season. | 2 |
3Q e-commerce sales rise 4.7 Retail sales over the Internet rose 4.7 percent in the third quarter and gained 21.5 percent compared with the same period last year as consumers continued to turn to e-commerce for shopping, a government report showed Friday. | 2 |
CanWest debt shuffle provides US\$133.6M in cash to Hollinger <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - A debt refinancing by CanWest Global Communications Corp. has cut its future interest costs while paying \$133.6 million US to Hollinger International Inc. | 2 |
Gators Try to Break Drought at FSU (AP) AP - Florida coach Ron Zook has one final chance to do something even Steve Spurrier couldn't do as Top Gator #151; win at Florida State. When the Gators play No. 10 Florida State on Saturday, they will try to break an 18-year winless streak at Doak Campbell Stadium in Zook's final regular-season game. | 1 |
Oklahoma Could Get Blowout It Needs (AP) AP - Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops could get the blowout victory his Sooners need Saturday without any regrettable decisions. No. 2 Oklahoma has never lost to Baylor, winning the last five years by an average margin of 38 points. They will need to do that #151; and maybe more #151; to make a good impression on the poll voters. | 1 |
Apple to open first European retail store in London LONDON (AFP) - Apple is to open its first retail store in Europe on Saturday, a state-of-the-art boutique in central London selling the latest products from the US computer and technology group. | 3 |
Solaris 10 Supports High-Volume 64-Bit Computing Santa Clara, CA; November 22, 2004 -- Sun Microsystems and AMD are celebrating the one-year anniversary of their strategic partnership. | 3 |
Kim portraits still in place, North Korea says BEIJING - North Korea has denied reports that portraits of leader Kim Jong Il have been disappearing from public places in the capital, Pyongyang. | 0 |
Chinese leader says economy to grow about 9.0 percent in 2004 (AFP) AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao said the booming economy in China would grow by "around 9.0 percent" this year as controls implemented to slow overheated sectors of the economy took effect. | 2 |
Street protests greet Apec summit Police and protesters clash in the Chilean capital, Santiago, ahead of a meeting of the Apec regional organisation. | 2 |
House G.O.P. Leader Hails Ethics Panel's Rebuke of His Accuser Tom DeLay of Texas claimed vindication today after it was disclosed that one of his accusers had been found to have stretched the facts. | 0 |
Judge could kill United union contract US bankruptcy judge agrees to consider airline #39;s motion to cancel pact, save \$725 million a year. CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge agreed Friday to consider a motion by United Airlines to cancel | 2 |
Howard Stern and Sirius Pull Off Major Publicity Stunt About 1,000 people and a media circus flocked to Manhattan #39;s Union Square Thursday where Howard Stern and Sirius Satellite Radio gave away 500 free satellite radios, one-year subscriptions and vouchers for a free radio with a \$142 subscription to Sirius. | 2 |
House approves extension of ban on taxing the Internet The House has given final congressional approval to a bill that bans state and local governments from taxing Internet connections for the next three years. | 2 |
FDA approves new lung cancer drug The US Food and Drug Administration Friday said it had approved Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets for patients with metastatic lung cancer. | 2 |
Fed #39;s Stern sees solid growth, low inflation The US economy is resilient over time and growth is likely to remain in the 3-4 percent range, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Gary Stern said on Friday. | 2 |
College Students Feel Sting of RIAA Lawsuits The RIAA continued its hard-line approach to music sharing with a round of copyright infringement lawsuits targeting 761 alleged illegal file sharers. | 3 |
US Plans Would Defer Roan Plateau Drilling The US Bureau of Land Management said on Friday its preferred plan for the rim of the Roan Plateau in western Colorado is to defer oil and natural gas drilling until 80 percent of anticipated wells are drilled below the rim. | 3 |
MSN, Yahoo Deal Extended Microsoft #39;s MSN Web portal has extended its contract with Overture, a division of Yahoo that provides sponsored search results. | 3 |
Microsoft Hotmail Ups Storage Space For New Users Microsoft finally made good on a five months #39;-old promise Thursday by upping the storage allowance for new members of its Hotmail e-mail service. | 3 |
Oracle's PeopleSoft Bid Deadline Nears (Reuters) Reuters - Oracle Corp. on Friday\won the backing of another key public pension fund in its\ #36;8.8-billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. as the\17-month takeover battle between the two California-based\business software makers neared a key deadline. | 2 |
FDA Official Defends Drug Safety Record A top official of the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday that he and his colleagues quot;categorically reject quot; earlier Congressional testimony that the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs. | 2 |
Icahn Offers to Buy Mylan Laboratories for \$5.38 Bln (Update2) Billionaire financier Carl Icahn offered to buy Mylan Laboratories Inc., the largest US maker of generic medicines, for about \$5.38 billion to block Mylan #39;s proposed purchase of King Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 |
Georgia crematory operator pleads guilty to dumping more than 300 <b>...</b> Former crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh pleaded guilty Friday to dumping 334 bodies and giving the families of the deceased cement dust instead of ashes. | 2 |
Let the Handheld Games Begin It #39;s the fight computer gamers have been waiting for. But the latest duel between wise old master Nintendo and challenger Sony is not taking place on a TV screen. | 3 |
Play : Half-Life 2 will take over your life THANK God for Valve Softwares Kellie Cosner, who gave me a complimentary edition of one of the most anticipated games of all time, Half-Life 2. Kellie, whom I previously corresponded with | 3 |
Steelers Surprising Everyone but Cowher (AP) AP - Days after the Steelers wrapped up a 6-10 season that matched the worst record in his 12 years on the job, coach Bill Cowher said in January his team wasn't that far from contending again. | 1 |
Stars endorse London #39;s 2012 Olympic Games LONDON - From David Beckham to Roger Moore to Tony Blair, London is rolling out the big names to promote its campaign for the 2012 Olympics. | 1 |
Rapids fire GM Denver, CO (Sports Network) - The Colorado Rapids have fired general manager Dan Counce after eight years with the club. The move comes as Colorado remains in search of a new head coach, who will take over | 1 |
In-form Sochaux brush aside Monaco Sochaux extended their unbeaten run to eight Ligue 1 matches with a deserved 3-1 success at struggling Monaco on Friday. The result gave Sochaux 25 points and kept them in fourth | 1 |
Second-ranked Tigers biggest challenge of the year for Tide Tuscaloosa, AL (U-WIRE) -- There #39;s good and bad news for Tide fans coming into this year #39;s Iron Bowl. The good news is that during the past three years, whenever the Auburn Tigers have defeated the Georgia | 1 |
Figure Skating: American in Paris outshines France #39;s Joubert PARIS : US national champion Johnny Weir looks poised for his second win of the season when he lead the ISU Grand Prix figure skating event after the short program, as favourite Brian Joubert, the men #39;s world silver medallist from France, struggled in | 1 |
British Hunters Seek to End Fox-Hunt Ban (AP) AP - Defeated in Parliament, supporters of fox hunting went to court Friday to try to overturn a legislative ban on their more than 300-year-old sport and vowed a campaign of civil disobedience in the run-up to next year's general election. | 0 |
Iraqi Troops Raid Baghdad Mosque, 17 Detained Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by US forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine, witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said. | 0 |
Sharon eases conditions for resuming peace talks with the <b>...</b> Israel signalled flexibility and openness toward the emerging new Palestinian leadership Friday, with a top adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying peace talks could resume if the Palestinians showed some goodwill. | 0 |
Protests Target Bush at Summit in Chile (AP) AP - Riot police used water cannons and tear gas Friday to break up a demonstration by hundreds of rock-throwing protesters before more than 20,000 people marched to vent their anger at Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush. | 0 |
House GOP Leader DeLay Delights in Rebuke of Accuser (Reuters) Reuters - A Texas congressman who brought a\successful ethics complaint against House Majority Leader Tom\Delay was himself rebuked by the ethics panel for violating the\rules in the way he brought the complaint. | 0 |
UN reiterates plea for hostages release in Afghanistan (AFP) AFP - The United Nations renewed an appeal for the safe release of three UN workers taken hostage in Afghanistan by a shadowy group of Islamic militants. | 0 |
Iraqi Troops Raid Baghdad Mosque, 17 Detained BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine, witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said. | 0 |
Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's political party on Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged last month. | 0 |
After Iraq, Spain Turns Again Toward Latin America SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - After spending several years distracted by Iraq and the war on terror, Spain under its new socialist government is turning again toward Latin America where its historical and business links give it an unrivaled edge. | 0 |
Ukraine Liberal Vows Demonstrations if Cheated KIEV (Reuters) - The liberal challenger in a closely fought presidential election in Ukraine raised the stakes on Friday, threatening to bring his supporters onto the streets if the authorities tried to deny him victory by cheating. | 0 |
Protests Target Bush at Summit in Chile Riot police used water cannons and tear gas Friday to break up a demonstration by hundreds of rock-throwing protesters before more than 20,000 people marched to vent their anger at Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush. | 0 |
Bomb Kills Venezuela Prosecutor, Gov't Swipes at US <p></p><p> By Patrick Markey</p><p> CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - A Venezuelan prosecutorprobing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed bya car bomb that the government blamed Friday on radicalopponents it said were training in the United States.</p> | 0 |
Stocks Tumble, Greenspan Jolts Investors NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday as investors were jolted by a more than \$2 increase in oil prices, while Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a stark reminder that interest rates were bound to go higher and warned the appetite for the dollar would dwindle. | 2 |
Movie Gallery Offers to Buy Hollywood Video Chain NEW YORK (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 \$700 million for Hollywood. | 2 |
Scientist: FDA Incapable of Protecting Safety Nov. 18, 2004 - An FDA scientist says the FDA, which is charged with protecting America #39;s prescription drug supply, is incapable of doing so. | 2 |
New Drug for Advanced Lung Cancer The US Food and Drug Administration has granted fast-trackapproval to Tarceva (erlotinib) to treat advanced non-small cell lungcancer that has failed to respond to other therapy. | 2 |
Congress Blocks Net Connection Taxation (AP) AP - Congress acted Friday to block state and local governments from taxing connections that link consumers to the Internet for the next three years. | 3 |
New Sober Worm on the Loose (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - A new version of the Sober worm is having quite a bit of success infecting users in Europe through the use of social engineering. | 3 |
Angels Ship Guillen to Expos (Reuters) Reuters - The Anaheim Angels have\reportedly traded outfielder Jose Guillen to the\Washington-bound Expos in exchange for outfielder Juan Rivera\and a prospect. | 1 |
Smith steps closer to Scotland manager's job (AFP) AFP - Scottish Football Association (SFA) officials confirmed they interviewed Walter Smith for the vacant national managerial job. | 0 |
Red Hat More Competition For Sun Than Microsoft Sun who resells Red Hat #39;s software, is competing for the same customers as Red Hat with their upcoming release of Solaris 10 in January. | 3 |
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