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Salvation Army Facing Uphill Battle This Holiday Season Louisville rings in the Christmas season with a 120-year tradition. The Salvation Army kicked off its kettle and bell ringing campaign Friday, called quot;Keep the Tradition Alive. | 2 |
Cattle Tracking Tested to Protect Food (AP) AP - Federal policy is meeting Western reality on the rangelands of Idaho, where wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism. | 3 |
Microsoft Warns of Potential Linux Suits quot;Someday, for all countries that are entering the World Trade Organization, somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property, quot; Steve Ballmer said. | 3 |
Half-Life 2 (Valve / Sierra) This is the game that has been hailed as the killer of all first person shooters since it was first announced over a year ago, and most who have said that hadn #39;t even played it yet - that #39;s how confident people are that this game is just that good. | 3 |
Prince of Persia: Golden Within November 19, 2004 - Ubisoft announced today that the Xbox and PlayStation 2 versions of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within have gone gold. | 3 |
Technical glitch delays launch of NASA #39;s gamma-ray probing <b>...</b> WASHINGTON (AFP) - A technical glitch has forced a minimum 24-hour delay in the launch of the Swift satellite that will study gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful and elusive explosions detected in the cosmos. | 3 |
Spanish offer a token of regret The Spanish Football Federation led the way, sending a letter of apology to the Football Association. General secretary Jorge P Arias condemned the fans #39; behaviour and reiterated his federation #39;s position against racism in football. | 1 |
Sorenstam on target with first-round 66 Annika Sorenstam was hitting the ball so well she knew exactly where it was going. Combine that with an unusually calm day in south Florida, and her name atop the leaderboard was no surprise. | 1 |
Licensing game means betting on a winner In souvenir trailers spread throughout Homestead-Miami Speedway, thousands of Nextel Cup champion T-shirts and hats are sitting in boxes. | 1 |
Huskers lineman charged with assault against Oklahoma student Norman, OK (Sports Network) - Nebraska offensive lineman Darren DeLone Friday was charged with aggravated assault and battery for injuring a member of the University of Oklahoma #39;s spirit group before last Saturday #39;s game. | 1 |
Injured Hasselbeck might not play Sunday Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who did not practice today, has been downgraded from probable to questionable for Sunday #39;s game. | 1 |
ChiSox #39;s Garland agrees to one-year deal Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Chicago White Sox pitcher Jon Garland has agreed to a one-year, \$3.4 million contract, avoiding salary arbitration. | 1 |
Yale in way of Harvard #39;s chance for perfection He should save the tears: Unlike most senior quarterbacks at Harvard, he might not be saying good bye to football after The Game against Yale on Saturday. | 1 |
Guns trained on Mosul US forces and Iraqi units last night were preparing to storm rebel strongholds in the northern city of Mosul as fighting wound down in Fallujah. | 0 |
Great Lakes Talks in Dar The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region #39;s First Summit of Heads of State and Government started yesterday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with calls for regional leaders to work together towards peace and stability in the region. | 0 |
Intel's Barrett Sees Room for Chip Growth (AP) AP - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip company, is not suffering from overcapacity and new areas are emerging that will increase global demand for microprocessors, its chief executive said Friday. | 0 |
US, N.Korea Meet, But No Agreement Reached on Six-Party Talks North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral | 0 |
Florida school district talks to Sting on iChat AV (MacCentral) MacCentral - Music students of the Manatee School District in Bradenton, Florida talked to music legend Sting on Friday using Apple's iChat AV, an iSight camera and a PowerBook G4. Sting spoke to students from the Telewest Arena in Newcastle, England an hour before he was to perform a concert for his latest tour. | 3 |
Calif. to Sue Over Sierra Nevada Logging Expansion (Reuters) Reuters - California plans to sue the Bush\administration over its plans to expand significantly the\amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the\state's Democratic attorney general said on Friday. | 3 |
House Passes Bipartisan Special Education Bill (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on\Friday easily passed a final bill aimed at improving education\for millions of children with learning disabilities, with the\Senate expected to follow as Congress rushed to complete its\work for the year. | 0 |
Peoplesoft bid hangs in balance Oracle's attempt to buy rival software producer Peoplesoft hangs in the balance as investors consider its \$9.2bn takeover offer ahead of Saturday's deadline. | 2 |
Bayer drug deal gets green light The European Commission clears German drug firm Bayer's 2.3bn euro acquisition of Swiss company Roche's over the counter medicines business. | 2 |
Tech leaders see the CFO's role growing Among the new challenges: keeping Sarbanes-Oxley expenses under control and "their CEOs out of jail." | 3 |
Microsoft gives developers a glimpse of Avalon Coding community gets early look at new graphics engine set to accompany Longhorn, the next version of Windows. | 3 |
Researchers say Internet porn is worse than crack Pennsylvania may block Philly's Wi-Fi plan. News.com Extra | 3 |
Oracle hopes for fast turnaround on tender results Firm says preliminary results for tender offer for PeopleSoft shares could be available just after midnight Friday night. | 3 |
Kidd Practices, Might Play Monday EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (Sports Network) - New Jersey guard Jason Kidd practiced with the team for the first time since undergoing knee surgery in July and he could be on the court Monday. | 1 |
Skulls program kills cell phone apps For some phones infected by the Trojan, the only real fix is a hard reset, which wipes all user data from the device. | 3 |
This week in security news The rise in online scams has companies spending hefty sums to educate customers about fraud prevention and to address 'phishing' damage. | 3 |
BT to offer cheaper Wi-Fi to its mobile users A converged Wi-Fi device will follow efforts with Vodafone to make BT big in the mobile space again. | 3 |
Photo: iPod's Toronto presence A sky-high iPod ad towers over a hip Toronto shopping district. Toronto will soon be home to its own Apple retail store. \ | 3 |
Apple plans Toronto retail store Mac maker is taking its retail act north of the border, CNET News.com has learned.\<br /> Photo: iPod's Toronto presence | 3 |
This week in travel tech The Segway coast to coast? Sure--it works, as long as you don't mind taking your time. | 3 |
Kodak catches up with Sony in camera sales Third-quarter survey of digital camera market from IDC shows 40-percent growth and a real horse race. | 3 |
Nvidia to put more force behind Intel processors A broad patent agreement will let the graphic-chip specialist build chipsets for Intel PCs. | 3 |
iPod chipmaker sings in Wall Street debut Enthusiasm for PortalPlayer's stock is high despite company's warning that it has no long-term contract with Apple.\ | 3 |
Best Buy hit with lawsuit over layoffs of IT workers A group of 44 former IT employees at Best Buy has filed a class-action lawsuit charging the retailer with age discrimination in connection with the termination of their jobs during layoffs last spring and in 2003. Best Buy said the claims "are without merit." | 3 |
CIO hiring, recruiting evolve as job duties change IT executives must learn business skills, and how to teach those skills to the next generation of managers. Too many look outside for help instead of training their own. | 3 |
Oracle, PeopleSoft prepared for midnight offer deadline The midnight expiration of Oracle's tender offer for PeopleSoft shares will either end the software rivals' bitter, 17-month battle tonight -- or increase its ferocity. | 3 |
Anti-Fraud Alliance formed to fight ID theft, phishing schemes Five online security software and service providers have formed an alliance to help e-commerce and financial services companies fight online fraud. | 3 |
Pressure grows on EDS over U.K. government IT system A troubled welfare-case -anagement and telephony system developed largely by Electronic Data Systems has run into so many problems that U.K. government officials might pull the plug on it. | 3 |
Mylan Shares Up As Drug Stocks Close Down Mylan Laboratories Inc. was one of the few drug makers whose stock closed up Friday with the sector down for a second day as fresh squabbles between veteran financier Carl Icahn and the company #39;s board erupted. | 2 |
Execs amp; Accounts for November 19, 2004 In a cred boost for satellite radio, former Viacom Chief Mel Karmazin signed on as chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio. Viacom #39;s former CEO has also served as head of CBS Corporation and Infinity Broadcasting. | 2 |
Firefox lights up Web browser world SAN FRANCISCO - Firefox 1.0 appears to have sparked new activity in the Web browser market. | 3 |
Nvidia signs chipset license with Intel Nvidiaand Intelhave signed a multiyear cross-licensing agreement that entitles Nvidia to build chipsets for Intel's processors, the companies announced Friday.<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 |
Internet tax moratorium clears Congress WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a compromise version of a moratorium on Internet-only taxes, the last step needed before the bill is sent to President George Bush. | 3 |
Car bombers kill seven in Iraq A double suicide car bomb attack has devastated a police station just outside Baghdad #39;s fortified Green Zone, killing seven people and wounding 57 in the latest strike against Iraq #39;s beleaguered security forces. | 0 |
New Sober variant spreading A new version of the Sober e-mail worm started spreading in Europe on Friday, according to antivirus vendors, which have given the worm a midlevel threat rating. | 3 |
Let the Handheld Games Begin Nintendo, Sony ready rival portable gaming devices. Which one will gamers go for? | 3 |
Summary: Greenspan Warns of Trade Deficit (AP) AP - THE WARNING: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned that swollen trade deficits eventually could threaten the economy by souring foreign appetites for investment in the United States. | 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 two more key public pension funds 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 |
Wall Street stocks fall on Greenspan #39;s warning on trade deficit Wall Street stocks traded sharply lower Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a warning over the nation #39;s spiraling trade deficit. | 2 |
Update 1: Movie Gallery Offers to Acquire Company Video rental company Movie Gallery Inc. became the third company to vie for Hollywood Entertainment Corp., claiming Friday that its offer was more likely to win antitrust approval than the \$700 million bid made by industry leader Blockbuster Inc. | 2 |
Gold Banc to Pay \$16M to Resolve Claims Gold Banc Corp., a banking company with operations in four states, has agreed to pay \$16 million to resolve claims that it charged excessive fees and inflated interest rates on federally guaranteed agricultural loans, the US Attorney #39;s office said Friday. | 2 |
Google founders to sell 7.2M shares Page, Brin and Schmidt hold one third of company #39;s stock, will still retain 81 of current holdings. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. | 2 |
Nvidia Signs License Deal with Intel Under an agreement with Intel, Nvidia will be able to make integrated graphics chips that are placed on the computer #39;s motherboard along with the main processor. | 3 |
RIAA Files 761 Music Lawsuits many of them university students -- for sharing unlicensed music files over the Internet. The latest round of filings | 3 |
Calif. to Sue Over Sierra Nevada Logging Expansion California plans to sue the Bush administration over its plans to expand significantly the amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the state #39;s Democratic attorney general said on Friday. | 3 |
Garland agrees to deal, avoids arbitration The Chicago White Sox avoided arbitration with right-hander Jon Garland on Friday, agreeing to a \$3.4 million, one-year contract. Garland, who got a \$1.1 million raise, was 12-11 with a 4.89 ERA last season, the first winning record of his career. | 1 |
Raptors discuss trading All-Star Carter to Trail Blazers for Abdur <b>...</b> Raptors guard Vince Carter asked out of Toronto before training camp, and it now appears the disgruntled five-time All-Star might get his wish. | 1 |
Angels strike a deal with Expos com. The Angels ended their relationship with left fielder Jose Guillen on Friday when they packed him off to the Washington DC franchise in exchange for outfielder Juan Rivera and shortstop Maicer Izturis. | 1 |
ABC withdraws from BCS negotiations ABC has pulled out of the television rights negotiations for the Bowl Championship Series, a source familiar with the talks said Friday. | 1 |
Death threats force controversial Dutch MP underground GEERT WILDERS, the Dutch MP and controversial critic of Islam, has two policemen by his side even when in his high-security parliamentary office in case someone tries to decapitate him. | 0 |
Israeli soldiers accused of tampering with corpses A military police investigation was ordered yesterday by the Israeli Chief of Staff into allegations that soldiers had tampered with the bodies of dead Palestinians and posed for photographs with the corpses. | 0 |
Help desperately wanted Like fruit cake and Santa Claus, they have become an important part of the holiday season. Beginning in early November and running through Christmas, Salvation Army | 2 |
Sun Opens New Front in OS Wars With Solaris 10 Sun plans to release most of the OS code to an open-source community development process. The company also promises a Red Hat Linux execution environment (the Janus project) by 1Q05. | 3 |
Firefox lights up Web browser world Firefox 1.0 appears to have sparked new activity in the Web browser market. The release of the open-source Web browser by the Mozilla Foundation last week prompted Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Bland Mountain salvage talks set The public is invited to an informal open house Monday to discuss salvage options on the Bland Mountain Fire. The August fire burned about 1,700 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, and the agency is considering salvaging up to 400 acres of that. | 3 |
Seductive virus has Sobering consequence A blonde, 21-year-old go-go dancer is sending emails with naked photos of herself attached and asking for work as model. Or so you are led to think by the latest mass-mailing Sober worm variant to hit the Web, Sober. | 3 |
New ID Tag Could Prevent Surgical Errors (AP) AP - A radio frequency tag that patients can affix like a bandage to ensure doctors perform the right surgery on the right person won government approval Friday. | 3 |
Australia struggling against New Zealand BRISBANE: New Zealand kept themselves firmly in the first Test with Australia yesterday after Jacob Oram blasted a career-best 126 not out to help the Kiwis reach a healthy first innings total of 353. | 1 |
Torres goes first as Chivas USA choses Hispanics in MLS expansion <b>...</b> CD Chivas USA made Los Angeles Galaxy forward Arturo Torres the first player chosen Friday in the Major League Soccer Expansion draft. | 1 |
Mets Close in on Deals With Benson, Leiter (AP) AP - Kris Benson and Al Leiter are likely to be back with the New York Mets next season. | 1 |
Google Co-Founders to Sell Company Shares (AP) AP - Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each plan to sell up to 7.2 million shares of their stock in the online search engine leader during the next 18 months #151; divestitures that would generate windfalls of more than #36;1 billion apiece at current market prices. | 3 |
Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners Myanmar #39;s junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi #39;s political party on Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained quot;inappropriately | 0 |
UK in #39;war of words #39; with Charles LONDON: British government and Prince Charles are locked in an unprecedented, public war of words over the rights and virtues of meritocracy vs aristocracy in the aspirational 21st century, sparking a right royal class war of republican proportions. | 0 |
Torres Chosen First in MLS Expansion Draft (AP) AP - CD Chivas USA made Los Angeles Galaxy forward Arturo Torres the first player chosen Friday in the Major League Soccer Expansion draft. | 1 |
Enterprises warm up to open source (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference #8220;Open Source Entering the Mainstream, #8221; held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week. | 3 |
Oracle's PeopleSoft Bid Deadline Nears (Reuters) Reuters - Oracle Corp. on Friday\won the backing of two more key public pension funds 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. | 3 |
Alberta Senate election candidates question Klein's resolve on Senate reform (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - EDMONTON (CP) - Senate reform will not be taken seriously by Ottawa unless Premier Ralph Klein gets more strongly behind the issue, say candidates in Alberta's Senate selection race. | 0 |
Tools wrap: Sybase, Clear Clear eye data modeling, BPEL (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Sybase later this year will ship PowerDesigner 11.0, an enterprise data modeling tool for building or re-engineering business processes and aligning business and IT goals, according to the company. | 3 |
Frozen Wooly Mammoth Arrives in Japan (AP) AP - World fairs have typically focused on the wonders of the future, highlighting new technologies from glass and steel construction in the 19th century to satellites and computers today. But next year's fair is different. | 3 |
Cuba and Panama restore ties Cuba and Panama agree to restore ties after having talks on the sidelines of the Ibero-American summit. | 0 |
This week in Linux news Sun plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the OS--a move to counter Linux. | 3 |
A City Built Upon Wits India's Kerala state to build a technology-friendly city for global investors. Also: Intel continues its expansion in the Indian city Bangalore hellip;. Sirius Satellite scores a hard-charging CEO hellip;. and more. | 2 |
Nanotech golf ball corrects its own flight Straight-shooting ball is one of a slew of nanotechnology products aimed at the sports market. \ | 3 |
Tools wrap: Sybase, Cape Clear eye data modeling, BPEL Sybase later this year will ship PowerDesigner 11.0, an enterprise data modeling tool for building or re-engineering business processes and aligning business and IT goals, according to the company. | 3 |
Enterprises warm up to open source Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference Open Source Entering the Mainstream, held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week. | 3 |
Icahn Offers to Buy Mylan Laboratories for \$5.38 Bln (Update5) 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 |
Banking Company Settles A Kansas banking company will pay \$16 million to settle claims it charged excessive fees and inflated interest rates on federally guaranteed agriculture loans in Oklahoma. | 2 |
Busch Wins Pole for Nextel Cup Finale HOMESTEAD, Fla. (Sports Network) - His first pole of the season couldn't have come at a better time for Nextel Cup Series points leader Kurt Busch. The No.97 Roush Racing Ford driver captured the pole for Sunday's season finale, Ford 400, with a time of 30.114 seconds (179.319 m.p.h.). | 1 |
Dangerous Drugs The list of drugs include Meridia - a weight loss drug. Crestor- for reducing cholesterol. Accutane- an acne drug. Bextra- a painkiller. | 2 |
EMI sees music market improving EMI, the world #39;s third-largest music group, reported a drop in first-half profits on Friday but said the beleaguered industry was rebounding as online music sales start to take off. | 2 |
Oil little changed, ponders winter weather SINGAPORE, NOV 19: Oil prices were little changed on Friday as traders waited to see whether the onset of the northern winter will put a squeeze on low heating fuel stocks. | 2 |
It girl turned sole trader makes millions as Jimmy Choo deal is <b>...</b> Tamara Mellon, the former It girl and fashion PR, yesterday saw a 150,000 loan from her father turn into a 50m fortune when the Jimmy Choo shoes business was bought by the American | 2 |
Enron Broadband trial delayed to April Fool #39;s Day There #39;s another postponement in the second scheduled Enron criminal trial and now the case against members of the company #39;s Internet division is set to begin April Fools #39; Day. | 2 |
Searching for a Perfect PC? An Answer for Everybody The home computer has morphed into an all-purpose entertainment hub. When buying a computer this holiday season, here are some important factors to consider. | 3 |
Mourinho #39;s magic working for Chelsea London, England (Sports Network) - Everything seems to be working lately for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea. Nothing changed Saturday at Stamford Bridge against Newcastle United. | 1 |
AstraZeneca and GSK shares rocked by safety concerns By Stephen Foley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. More than 6bn was wiped off the value of the UK #39;s two giant pharmaceuticals companies yesterday as they and the US regulator attempted to quell a furore over drug safety. | 2 |
New artists, cost cuts and digital growth cheer EMI EMI overcame an 11.4 per cent fall in sales to deliver increased profits and margins in the six months to the end of September, it announced yesterday. | 2 |
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