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Apple Stock Jumps to 4-Year High on IPod (AP) AP - Apple Computer Inc. stock jumped to a four-year high Monday after a major Wall Street firm nearly doubled its price target on the stock, saying that customer satisfaction with its iPod music player is creating "wildfire word-of-mouth marketing" for its Mac computers and other products. | 3 |
Rangers win explosive Glasgow derby Alan Thompson and Chris Sutton were sent off for Celtic, while Hoops striker Henri Camara and his Rangers counterpart Nacho Novocould yet be punished for apparent violent conduct offences that were either missed or ignored by referee Kenny Clark but | 1 |
CORRECTED - Larsson could be out for season after tearing knee In Barcelona story headlined quot;Larsson could be out for season after tearing knee quot;, please read in third para ... during Saturday #39;s ... instead of ... during Sunday #39;s ... correcting day. Corrected repeat follows: | 1 |
Mobile Firms Hope Consumers Will Turn on to TV (Reuters) Reuters - A reality show or soap opera\on your mobile phone? This is the vision of top telecoms firms\as they hope that from 2006 consumers will sign up for new\phones that can receive digital television signals. | 3 |
Call for action over #39;fraud #39; Commissioner The European Commission faces a new crisis after it was revealed incoming French commissioner Jacques Barrot has a fraud conviction. | 0 |
US, Afghan forces search for UN hostages in Kabul US and Afghan soldiers have raided houses in downtown Kabul early Monday in an operation aimed at releasing three foreign UN hostages, who were abducted last month. | 0 |
Apple Up After Analysts Raise Target (Reuters) Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. shares\jumped as much as 16 percent on Monday, to their highest level\in more than 4 years, after a Wall Street analyst nearly\doubled his price target on the stock. | 3 |
Biofuels Seen Key to UK Farming Future - Report (Reuters) Reuters - Biofuels could become a major revenue\earner for Britain's arable farmers within 5-10 years, but much\will depend on government support, a major study into the UK\cereals sector concluded on Monday. | 3 |
Solar System Surprise: A New View of What's Out There (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A fabled tenth planet out beyond Neptune, often referred to as Planet X, hasn't \ been found despite years of searching. But astronomers involved in the hunt \ are beginning to speculate that something like Planet X will be discovered, \ along with Y and Z. | 3 |
Technical Problems Delay Launch of Upgraded Ariane 5 (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - The enhanced version of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket will \not be launched until late January to give managers more time to verify its \flight-worthiness, Arianespace Chief Executive Officer Jean-Yves Le Gall said | 3 |
Music Industry Is Trying Out Digital-Only Releases Record labels are looking to digital sales as a first step on the road to the larger music marketplace after years of infighting over how to sell music online. | 0 |
A fourth man arrested in Germany for alleged plot against Allawi A fourth man was detained Saturday in connection with an attack plot against visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi while the three Iraqi suspects arrested on Friday were brought before a federal magistrate. | 0 |
Stunned pundit agrees with Gates over passwords Biometrics and smartcards <em>are</em> the future | 3 |
Pulitzer Shares Up on Possible Sale PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Shares of newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PTZ.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PTZ.N</A> jumped as much as 18 percent on Monday after it said it hired Goldman Sachs as a financial adviser to explore a possible sale of the company. | 2 |
Ford to Check 740,000 SUVs for Glitch DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=F.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">F.N</A> announced plans on Monday to notify about 740,000 owners of 2004 model-year Explorers and Mercury Mountaineers of a potential transmission problem in the popular sport utility vehicles. | 2 |
Doubts about school computers Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance, research suggests. | 3 |
Tales from the next generation Millions of pounds will be spent in the coming months trying to persuade people to upgrade to 3G phones. What do two users of the services which have been launched already think about what their fancy phone can do? | 3 |
Serf's Up in the Video Game Industry Is it a video game maker's lab or a twisted vision out of Charles Dickens's worst coal factory nightmare? A growing number of people can't tell the difference. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</b></font> | 3 |
Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill The U.S. Senate has voted to outlaw several favorite techniques of people who illegally copy and distribute movies, but has dropped other measures that could have led to jail time for Internet song-swappers. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Reuters</b></font> | 3 |
Borrowers Find System Open to Conflicts Critics say the three biggest credit raters -- Moody's, Standard Poor's and Fitch -- have become important gatekeepers in capitalism without commensurate oversight or accountability. | 3 |
Pentagon Weighs Satellite Needs The Defense Department's use of commercial communications satellites has soared with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, the Pentagon is trying to decide whether it can save money by buying service directly from satellite carriers instead of through three Washington area resellers. | 3 |
MobileAccess Networks Strengthens Signals for Indoor Use Every day, cubicle-dwellers get up from their desks and walk to their nearest windows in search of a strong enough signal to make or answer a cell-phone call. Cathy Zatloukal thinks her in-building wireless infrastructure company, MobileAccess Networks, can save them the trip. | 3 |
Electronic Passports Might Not Measure Up The United States hasn't issued any microchip-equipped passports yet, but as the Department of State tests different prototypes, the international standards for the passports are under fire from privacy advocates who worry the technology won't protect travelers from identity thieves. | 3 |
Company Launches JFK Assassination Game A British company said Sunday it was releasing a video game recreating the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. | 3 |
Britain's biggest dinosaur found Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight unearth the bones of the biggest dinosaur ever found in the UK. | 3 |
Scientists 'rebuild' Grand Canyon Millions of tons of sediment-heavy water are being sent through the Grand Canyon in a bid to help local wildlife. | 3 |
Oracle: Let's get past this 'impasse' PeopleSoft needs to get over its stubbornness and accept a new reality following Friday's shareholder vote, Oracle's chairman says.\<br /> Oracle wins PeopleSoft shareholder vote | 3 |
Commentary: Smoothing the way for open source The success of platforms like JBoss, Apache and Jonas will boost open-source integration products--if some key conditions are met. | 3 |
Open source's next frontier Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others. | 3 |
Gateway takes eMachines to Mexico The new desktops, priced between \$600 and \$715, target families, students and small businesses. | 3 |
Video gamble for the Bells Baby Bells are spending billions to sell video service over broadband. Can they crack cable and satellite's hold on TV viewers?<br />\ Image: Video via broadband | 3 |
Images: Video via broadband Microsoft TV's IPTV channel guide can search programs and offer descriptions. | 3 |
PeopleSoft board won #39;t negotiate takeover with Oracle NOVEMBER 22, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - PeopleSoft Inc. won #39;t discuss a sale to Oracle Corp. for a price of \$24 per share, the company #39;s board of directors told Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in a letter on Saturday. | 2 |
JFK assassination game draws ire A video game released to coincide with the 41st anniversary of President John F. Kennedys assassination has been criticised by the Kennedy family. | 3 |
Nintendo DS: Doubly Good Dual Screens Elevate Gaming Nintendo executives say playing the same old games is getting stale, so they #39;ve created this system to bring new life to games. | 3 |
Presse conomique /High-Tech TOKYO amp; SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)22 Novembre 2004--MontaVista Software, Inc., a annonc ce jour que le systme d #39;exploitation MontaVista(R) Linux(R) avait t retenu pour quiper trois des nouveaux tlphones mobiles de troisime | 3 |
England Wins World Cup Paul Casey and Luke Donald of England fired an 8-under 64 in the alternate-shot format on Sunday to win the World Golf Championships. | 1 |
PSV #39;s Hesselink suffers shoulder injury Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Sports Network) - PSV Eindhoven will be without striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink for up to six weeks due to a shoulder injury. | 1 |
Crime tops Queen #39;s Speech agenda New measures to fight crime and drugs are expected to be at the heart of the Queen #39;s Speech on Tuesday. The creation of national ID cards, new measures against quot;yobs quot; and drug tests for minor offenders are set to feature. | 0 |
Store trots out Treo PalmOne's new Silicon Valley store focuses exclusively on the Treo family of smart phones. \<br /> Photo: PalmOne's Treo 650\ | 3 |
Skulls Trojan attacks Symbian mobile phones Users of Nokia's 7610 smart phone and possibly other phones running Symbian's Series 60 software should be aware of a new Trojan program on the Internet. | 3 |
In Brief: Nextance launches Intellectual Property Optimization Suite Nextance last week announced its Intellectual Property Optimization Suite, which enables users to manage valuable intellectual property (IP) assets and associated contractual agreements in order to more effectively optimize revenue and mitigate legal risk related to IP. Nextance's IP Optimization Suite manages the entire lifecycle of IP assets and addresses such issues as underutilized IP assets, underpaid licensing and royalty revenue, unnecessary risks related to legal compliance, and sluggish time-to-market for new solutions that increasingly depend on IP. Pricing starts at \$500,000 and ranges to over \$1,000,000 depending on the size of the organization and sophistication of the implementation. | 3 |
Euro Web sites spread Bofra worm via banner ads Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on a number of popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm, experts warned on Monday. | 3 |
PeopleSoft board won't negotiate takeover with Oracle PeopleSoft Inc. won't discuss a sale to Oracle Corp. for a price of \$24 per share, the company's board of directors Saturday told Oracle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Larry Ellison in a letter. | 3 |
ICQ joins Web mail battles with new service The increasingly competitive Web mail market has a new player: Instant messaging provider ICQ now offers a fee-based service that includes 2GB of storage, a calendar feature, task manager, notepad, wireless access, and support for both POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). | 3 |
ICQ Updates Its Web-Based E-Mail Service offers 2GB of storage, wireless access, and video e-mail--for a fee. | 3 |
Firefox Excites Web Browser World Microsoft breaks its silence on plans for IE, while AOL breathes life into Netscape. | 3 |
Apple stock jumps following analyst report Apple Computer Inc. stock hit a four-year high on Monday following the release of a report from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. | 2 |
Study: Cincinnati is a dangerous place to live Cincinnati is still among the most dangerous cities in the nation, but the metropolitan area which takes in Northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana is actually a shade safer than average, according | 2 |
AirGate PCS, Inc. Responds to Announcement by Alamosa Holdings ATLANTA --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 22, 2004 -- AirGate PCS, Inc. (Nasdaq:PCSA), a PCS Affiliate of Sprint, today released the following statement: quot;We have received a letter dated October 22, 2004, from David | 2 |
CNN Hires Former CBS Exec to US Post NEW YORK - CNN has a new boss for the second time in 14 months: former CBS News executive Jonathan Klein, who will oversee programming and editorial direction at the second-ranked cable news network. | 2 |
Symbian Phones Hit with Skulls Trojan A newly intercepted malicious Trojan has begun infecting mobile phones which run the Symbian operating system. Dubbed quot;Skulls, quot; the Trojan has been detected on Symbian shareware download sites | 3 |
Clemson, South Carolina might be kept from playing in bowls There are strong indications that Clemson and South Carolina will not be allowed to play in bowl games following Saturday #39;s melee between the two teams, SportsLine. | 1 |
EU commission overshadowed by dispute on commissioner #39;s conviction As the new European Commission (EC) started to take up office on Monday, it was still overshadowed by quarrels over French European Commissioner Jacques Barrot #39;s conviction. | 0 |
What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One\\A few weeks ago I was involved in a very strange conversation with some pretty bright people. One publishes a widely circulated industry magazine, another was an industry consultant, and the last was the CEO of a major corporation in the ... | 3 |
Google Sues AdSense Publisher over Click Fraud Google Sues AdSense Publisher over Click Fraud\\Google Inc. filed a lawsuit against one of its AdSense Online clients this week, claiming the company defrauded the search company by clicking on its own ads multiple times. The case, filed in Santa Clara County Court, also alleges that Houston, Texas-based Auctions Expert ... | 3 |
Understanding Broadband - Ready to Upgrade? Understanding Broadband - Ready to Upgrade?\\Are you ready to upgrade your residential service to DSL or business service to real broadband or T1? Well, the answer lies in what you need. Before you can realize your needs, you must understand more of what the word broadband really means. Below I ... | 3 |
Utilizing All the Features of Google Adsense Utilizing All the Features of Google Adsense\\Many website owners know that Google's Adsense program is a great way to show targeted ads on your site and make money at the same time. Google offers many features that you may not\know about. Let's take a look at a few of them.\\Colors: ... | 3 |
Google Sued by Pornography Publisher Over Image Search Google Sued by Pornography Publisher Over Image Search\\Porn publisher Perfect 10 Inc. sued Google for copyright infringement last Friday, accusing Google of failing to remove from its search results thousands of photos posted online (on non-Google sites)without permission from Perfect 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District ... | 3 |
News: Visa scammers hit UK phones Credit card fraudsters are trying to fleece UK punters by tricking them into revealing card security information over the phone. | 3 |
Mitchell-Alston feud brews as Toronto heads to Cleveland CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Vince Carter isn #39;t the only Raptor unhappy to be in Toronto right now. Guard Rafer Alston is starting to question his role on the team, even contemplating quitting the rest of the season | 1 |
KarstadtQuelle Sells Stake in Venture (AP) AP - Troubled German retailer KarstadtQuelle AG said Monday it is selling its 82 percent stake in a three-year-old joint venture with coffeehouse chain Starbucks Coffee International to the U.S. company. | 2 |
Longer-Dated Treasuries in Demand NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries were mostly higher on Monday as investors bet longer-dated debt would outperform the short end in an environment of rising official interest rates. | 2 |
Africa conflicts 'scare investors' Conflicts in the Ivory Coast and Sudan's troubled Darfur region are driving potential investors out of Africa, the United Nations says. | 2 |
Apple soars on iPod effect Shares in Apple soared in early trade in New York today after a report suggested that the iPod has pushed users to dump their PCs in favour of Apple #39;s Macintosh computers. | 2 |
Trump: Casino Firm In Chap. 11, But #39;Apprentice #39; Star Stays CEO Half-empty or half-full is a matter of perspective; and it helps when the goblet in question is grasped by Donald Trump. The billionaire #39;s eponymous firm, Trump Hotels amp; Casino Resorts (otc: DJTC - news - people | 2 |
Consumer Groups: Holiday Spending to Rise A rosier economic outlook will boost US holiday spending by up to 5 percent this year despite a firm resolution by many consumers to spend less, a consumer group said on Monday. | 2 |
Food Stocks Mixed on Campbell Report Shares of food makers were mixed in Monday trading after Campbell Soup Co., the world #39;s largest soupmaker, said its first-quarter profit grew 9 percent on stronger sales of its popular condensed soups. | 2 |
Nova Chemicals to Sell Pipeline Stake Nova Chemicals Corp. said Monday that it is selling its stake in an Alberta ethane pipeline to Canada #39;s Fort Chicago Energy Partners LP for cash proceeds of about \$78 million. | 2 |
Swift Spacecraft Scans Big Bang Births named Swift for its fast pivoting and pointing -- launched this weekend will detect and analyze gamma ray bursts, which astronomers believe represent the birth cries of black holes. | 3 |
Video game recreates JFK killing GLASGOW - A new downloadable video game allows gamers to assume the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who killed US president John F. Kennedy. | 3 |
New Broadcom 54g(TM) Chipsets Boost Wi-Fi(R) Coverage IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced two | 3 |
India Debating Manned Space Flight alphakappa writes quot;India #39;s moon mission and other space programs have been covered before on Slashdot. India is now debating sending a manned space mission and has acknowledged it #39;s technological preparedness | 3 |
Sudan Hopes to Reach Darfur Deal by Dec. 31 (Reuters) Reuters - Sudan hopes to reach a peace agreement\to end fighting in its troubled Darfur region by the end of the\year, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Monday. | 0 |
PGA Grand Slam to return to Poipu Bay in #39;05 Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Sports Network) - The PGA of America announced on Monday that the PGA Grand Slam of Golf will remain at Poipu Bay Golf Course in 2005. | 1 |
SECOND LOOKSnapshots from the latest in college football With the weight of a perfect season and a potential BCS Maelstrom swirling in the wind, Auburn rallies in Tuscaloosa for a satisfying Iron Bowl victory against gritty Alabama. | 1 |
Scots eye the grand prize in Sharjah Scotland seized the initiative on the first day of the ICC Intercontinental Cup final against Canada, in Sharjah, yesterday, when Yorkshire #39;s John Blain trapped opener Ashif Mulla lbw with the last ball of the first over. | 1 |
Zarqawi Group Claims Allawi Kidnappings (AP) AP - A militant group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility Monday for kidnapping and then releasing three family members of Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi. | 0 |
IAEA Supervises Iran #39;s Nuclear Suspension Iran says it has halted all work on potentially weapons-related parts of its nuclear program, honoring a deal with European powers. | 0 |
Benazir Bhutto #39;s husband granted bail Asif Ali Zardari, husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was granted bail in a corruption case by the Supreme Court on Monday, paving the way for his release after eight years in jail, lawyers said. | 0 |
DC's Team Will Be the Nationals Major League Baseball's Washington, D.C. franchise finally got a name Monday, nearly two months after the team relocated from Montreal. Team officials, including president Tony Tavares, also unveiled a color scheme for the team, which is red, white and blue. | 1 |
Hurricane predictions for 2005 FORT COLLINS - Days after the end of a busy season, hurricane forecasters are calling for an above-average Atlantic season again next year. | 2 |
Singh Eyes 10th Title at Grand Slam in Hawaii NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vijay Singh narrowly failed in his bid to win 10 PGA Tour titles this year but has a golden opportunity to clinch a final victory of 2004 at this week's PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii. | 1 |
Brown-Forman Buying Rest of Finlandia Brown-Forman Corp., the maker of Jack Daniel #39;s whiskey and Southern Comfort liqueur, said Monday that is buying the remaining 20 percent of Finlandia Vodka Worldwide Ltd. | 2 |
Rest in peace VHS In a move that marks the beginning of the end for a hugely successful chapter in technology history, Britain #39;s biggest high street electronics retailer Dixons has announced that it #39;s taking VCRs off its shelves for good. | 3 |
Video Game Recreates JFK Assassination GLASGOW, Scotland -- A British company says it #39;s releasing a video game recreating the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. | 3 |
Skulls trojan bites Symbian 60 p2pnet.net News:- Nokia 7610 smart phones, as well as other mobiles running Symbian Series 60 software, could be hit by the new Skulls malware. | 3 |
Outgunned on copyright? com November 22, 2004, 7:29 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients. | 3 |
RIAA begins new round of file-sharing lawsuits Beginning a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Thursday they will be taking legal action against 791 individuals suspected of illegally downloading music files. | 3 |
Three to get ready, two will go Only two berths will be available in the FedEx Orange Bowl, where the Bowl Championship Series national title will be determined Jan. 4. By Mark J. Terrill, AP. | 1 |
Patriots Take On Puzzling Chiefs On Monday _ The New England Patriots might have a better chance of winning their 24th game in 25 tries Monday night if they were 1-8 instead of 8-1. | 1 |
Iran meets deadline to halt nuclear program TEHRAN - Iran said Monday it was suspending its program to produce enriched uranium, the crucial ingredient needed for the production of nuclear weapons. | 0 |
Powell hails peace opportunity ahead of Palestinian vote JERUSALEM : US Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed a quot;moment of opportunity quot; for Middle East peace as Israel and the United States pledged to back next year #39;s Palestinian election to the hilt. | 0 |
Bhuttos husband released from jail KARACHI, Pakistan - After eight years in jail on corruption charges, the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released on bail Monday, an official said, in a move the government heralded as a step toward political harmony with her | 0 |
Zarqawi group claims Allawi kidnappings A militant group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility Monday for kidnapping and then releasing three family members of Iraq #39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi. | 0 |
Ellison May Attempt Boardroom Coup at PeopleSoft Following its latest rejection, the next stage in Oracle #39;s battle to buy PeopleSoft is set to begin in a courtroom on Wednesday. | 2 |
Update 4: Crude Oil Prices Trade Below \$49 a Barrel Crude oil futures traded below \$49 a barrel Monday following a steep runup on Friday that was prompted by persistent concerns about winter fuel supplies. | 2 |
Trump Hotels Begins Recapitalization Trump Hotels amp; Casino Resorts on Monday said it has begun to recapitalize after a bankruptcy filing Sunday night that would allow the company to restructure debt and overhaul aging casinos. | 2 |
Dhirubhai had settled it, says Mukesh RELIANCE INDUSTRIES chairman Mukesh Ambani said in a statement on Monday all quot;ownership issues quot; were settled during his father Dhirubhai Ambani #39;s lifetime. | 2 |
Calif. pension fund to hike hedge fund buys SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California Public Employees #39; Retirement System, the nation #39;s largest public pension fund, plans to double to \$2 billion its hedge fund investment, widely seen as a risky neighborhood of the investment world. | 2 |
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