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Fury over #39;shoot JFK video game #39; A new computer game which recreates John F Kennedy #39;s assassination was branded despicable yesterday by late president #39;s family. | 3 |
Keane dropped for Spurs defeat Robbie Keane was dropped as dreadful Spurs crashed to their SIXTH straight Premiership defeat on Monday night. The Irish striker - who spoke on Sunday about a new-found freedom to express oneself at White | 1 |
UN demands DR Congo poll Visiting UN Security Council diplomats push for 2005 elections in DR Congo despite huge obstacles. | 0 |
CNN cuts Hair as head of US unit In a big management shakeup aimed at halting a brutal assault from rival Fox News, CNN has pushed aside the head of its US network. | 2 |
Pent-up demand for travel is primed for holiday takeoff As the high-pressure holiday travel season rolls in, the transportation industry is anticipating some of the highest numbers seen in four years. | 2 |
Patriots streaking again If Drew Brees was watching TV and saw the Kansas City Chiefs play pass defense last night, he must have been smiling and rubbing his palms together in anticipation. | 1 |
From nada to Mega Parking attendant Juan Rodriguez had just 78 cents in the bank and a whopping \$44,000 in debts when he hit a \$149 million Mega Millions lottery prize, bankruptcy documents revealed yesterday. | 1 |
Martin glad to see Sometime tonight, perhaps at tipoff, the memories may all hit Kenyon Martin at once, with the force of one of his punishing dunks. | 1 |
Cendant Expected to Spin Off Wright Express, a Fleet Manager The Cendant Corporation is planning to announce today that it will spin off its Wright Express unit in an initial public offering that is expected to raise more than \$1 billion. | 2 |
INDUSTRY REPORT: Food McDonald #39;s CEO resigns McDonald #39;s Corp., the world #39;s largest restaurant chain, said CEO and President Charlie Bell has resigned to focus on his fight against cancer. | 2 |
FAO Schwarz back in play On a 22-foot-long piano keyboard, dancers jumped on giant keys, each step setting off a note of quot;Chopsticks. quot;. Over by the soda fountain, blue-shirted servers learned to make the Volcano, a | 2 |
\$149 million lottery winner: #39;No idea #39; what comes next Newly minted multimillionaire Juan Rodriguez, who won the \$149 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, said Sunday he hasn #39;t quit his job at a midtown Manhattan parking garage yet. | 2 |
EasyJet faces tough year ahead An increase in passengers has propped up annual earnings for easyJet but the low-cost airline has warned it faces a tough two years as cut-throat competition drives down fares and fuel prices soar. | 2 |
EasyJet caution despite profits rise Budget airline EasyJet today reported a 21 improvement in annual profits but warned that it expected competition to remain intense this winter. | 2 |
VHS Format Dies Quiet Death quot;We #39;re saying goodbye to one of the most important products in the history of consumer technology, quot; Dixons marketing director John Mewett said. | 3 |
New Linuxes, Old Problems I have had a frustrating few weeks with Linux. I #39;ve lost count of the number of installations I #39;ve done, and I don #39;t want to think about the number of hours I #39;ve lost to troubleshooting. | 3 |
MontaVista squares up to Symbian CALIFORNIA #39;S MONTAVISTA HAS landed the deal to supply its Linux OS to two major Japanese handset providers, NEC and Panasonic. | 3 |
Are Desktop Search Programs Ready for Prime Time? (PC World) PC World - Copernic Desktop Search does the work without Google's security flaws. | 3 |
Brady, Dillon provide touchdowns KANSAS CITY -- The Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to have enough weapons to beat the New England Patriots, but the defending champs proved they have a healthy arsenal of their own on Monday night. | 1 |
Chad hints: Shoulder healing slowly Without denying the reports, Jets quarterback Chad Pennington yesterday tried to quell rumors that he #39;ll require arthroscopic surgery to have the strained rotator cuff in | 1 |
Serf's Up in the Video Game Industry (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Holiday season in the video game industry is the equivalent of television's sweeps week, which perhaps is why new reports painting game designers as 21st century-style Dickensian factory laborers are proving especially noteworthy. | 3 |
Conference on Iraq to back the government #39;s war on insurgents World leaders gathered in Egypt for an international conference on Iraq focused on another Mideast issue early Tuesday the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. | 0 |
Arafat #39;s nephew calls medical file inconclusive PARIS -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat #39;s medical records show no definite diagnosis explaining his death, his nephew said Monday. | 0 |
<cite>Register</cite> restores ad service <strong>Site Notice</strong> Some rough figures | 3 |
Smartphones suffer Skulls attack Owners of the Nokia 7610 are warned to look out for a malicious program that makes phones almost useless. | 3 |
Help for lost and stolen phones A national database is being set up to help return lost and stolen phones to their rightful owners. | 3 |
Time Warner Nears Deal Over AOL Accounting Media giant would pay \$750M to settle wide-ranging allegations of accounting irregularities at Va.-based America Online.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
SEC Probes Firms-Advisers Gift Exchange (AP) AP - Securities regulators are examining whether brokerage firms lavished golf outings, Super Bowl tickets and other gifts on mutual fund advisers to get them to bring their trading business to the firms. | 2 |
Oil Surges to \$50 on Winter Fuel Worries LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices vaulted back above \$50 a barrel on Tuesday as traders took out insurance ahead of weekly U.S. data on Wednesday that is expected to show only a modest increase in winter heating oil inventories. | 2 |
Airbus Looks to Challenge Boeing's 7E7 PARIS/TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Airbus is eager to produce a rival to Boeing Co.'s new 7E7 passenger jet and hopes to make an announcement by the end of the year, the European planemaker said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Time Warner Shares Rise on Talks Report NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Time Warner Inc <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TWX.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TWX.N</A> rose 2 percent on Tuesday after a report that the world's largest media company was near a settlement with regulators that could limit potential shareholder lawsuits over probes into accounting at its America Online unit. | 2 |
U.S. FDA Adds Restrictions to Acne Drug WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roche's acne drug Accutane and its generic versions will face tighter prescription controls to prevent harm to unborn children, U.S. health regulators said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Intel Shares Edge Lower After Downgrade NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A> shares slipped on Tuesday after Credit Suisse First Boston downgraded the stock, forecasting that the computer chip maker will have difficulty outperforming the overall semiconductor sector next year. | 2 |
Computer Associates Names IBM Exec as CEO NEW YORK (Reuters) - Computer Associates International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CA.N</A> on Tuesday named former IBM software sales head John Swainson as president and chief executive, seven months after Sanjay Kumar stepped down amid an accounting scandal. | 2 |
Credit Raters' Power Abused, Borrowers Say Corporations, municipalities and foreign governments have grown wary of the big three credit-rating companies as they have expanded into global powers without formal oversight. | 2 |
Tax Reform Veterans See Hurdles Ahead Two primary architects of Congress's last major tax reform say President Bush so far has failed to lay the groundwork for his ambitious tax agenda. | 2 |
Brokers' Gifts Investigated Securities regulators are opening up yet another front in their long-running investigation of the mutual fund industry, examining brokerage firms that allegedly gave mutual fund employees lavish gifts in exchange for business, officials said yesterday. | 2 |
Top Economic Adviser to Bush Is Leaving Post The departure Tuesday of Stephen Friedman, who left Wall Street to assume one of the top economic posts in the White House as director of the National Economic Council, will open a key economic policy position just as President Bush begins his ambitious push to overhaul Social Security and the tax code. | 2 |
USDA Rules Out Mad Cow Disease in Animal The result cheered the beef industry, which had braced itself to hear that a second case of mad cow disease had been discovered in the U.S. | 2 |
Dollar hits new record euro low The dollar hits yet another record low against the euro on speculation Russia may increase reserves of the single currency. | 2 |
Wal-Mart approves unions in China Wal-Mart is to allow its Chinese employees to join a trade union following pressure from the Chinese authorities. | 2 |
China and Cuba sign trade deals China and Cuba sign a multi-million dollar nickel deal as the communist nations seek closer ties. | 2 |
Cingular announces 7,000 job cuts US mobile phone giant Cingular announces plans to cut about 7,000 jobs in the next 12 to 18 months. | 2 |
Fines prompt Yukos share drop Shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos lose more than a fifth of their value, as the company faces a tax fine of \$2.5bn. | 2 |
Rising material costs hit Heinz Second quarter profits at ketchup maker Heinz are hit by higher material and transport costs. | 2 |
Palestinian economy in decline The Palestinian economy is in crisis, performing well below its potential, the World Bank says. | 2 |
EADS 'ready' for US air force bid European aerospace firm EADS says it is ready to tender for a bid to supply refuelling planes to the US air force. | 2 |
WPP-Grey Global merger 'on hold' Advertising giant WPP's purchase of Grey Global is temporarily put on hold after files submitted to EU regulators were found to be incomplete. | 2 |
AG sues to stop apparent telecom scam Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly moved yesterday to rescue nearly 200 Bay State businesses from an apparent telecommunications scam that bound many to pay \$100,000 or more for a black-box device called quot;The Matrix quot; that turned out to be worthless. | 2 |
Rather Quitting as CBS Anchor in Abrupt Move The move came two months after Dan Rather acknowledged flaws in a report on President Bush's National Guard service. | 2 |
Questions Are Seen on Merck's Stance on Pain Drug's Use Merck officials had evidence far back as 2001 that Vioxx might not help thousands of users of the arthritis and pain drug. | 2 |
On Wall Street, a Closer Look at Giving Gifts Regulators are apparently not basking in the spirit of holiday giving, at least where Wall Street is concerned. | 2 |
Jack Daniel's to the Rescue Jack Daniel's puts on a strong performance as Brown-Forman's earnings grow strongly. | 2 |
Dollar Tree Spreads Roots Discount retailer meets expectations, forecasts 19 earnings gain next quarter. | 2 |
Mylan's "Three-Ring Circus" Icahn is involved in the Mylan-King Pharmaceuticals deal for his benefit only. | 2 |
IBM to acquire life insurance processing, admin company IBMis acquiring Liberty Insurance Services, or LIS, which is the U.S. business process services operation of RBC Insurance, IBM and RBC announced Tuesday. LIS handles life insurance and annuity processing and administration, and will become a new IBM subsidiary focused on that service. | 2 |
Exploding Cell Phones a Growing Problem (AP) AP - Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned, ears ringing, hand gushing blood after his cell phone exploded. Safety officials have received 83 reports of cell phones exploding or catching fire in the past two years, usually because of bad batteries or chargers. | 3 |
Lobbyists Try to Kill Philly Wireless Plan (AP) AP - Philadelphia's plan to offer inexpensive wireless Internet as a municipal service #151; the most ambitious yet by a major U.S. city #151; has collided with commercial interests including the local phone company, Verizon Communications Inc. | 3 |
SEC May Be Near Settlement With AOL Time Warner is close to settling a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into accounting at America Online, a person close to the negotiations said yesterday. | 2 |
Mixed End to Light Trading as Oil Surges, Then Retreats Shares shuffled to a mixed finish yesterday, rebounding from earlier lows as oil prices retreated after surging past \$50 a barrel. | 2 |
Questions and answers about Trump #39;s bankruptcy filing The company that operates Donald J. Trump #39;s casinos has filed for bankruptcy protection, along with some related companies. Here are some questions and answers about what this means for Trump, his employees, gamblers and creditors: | 2 |
China #39;s SAIC cool on early Rover deal talk Chinese carmaker Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) has played down reports that it is about to sign a deal for a joint venture with MG Rover, the Times newspaper reports. | 2 |
Drilling Programme at WMCs Olympic Dam Site Indicates it is the <b>...</b> Total Mineral Resources at WMC Resources Ltd #39;s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia have increased by 29.2 as a result of recent drilling and an improved long-term uranium price outlook. | 2 |
Top Economic Adviser to Bush Is Leaving Post Stephen Friedman, who left Wall Street to assume one of the top economic posts in the White House, will return to the private sector Dec. 31 after two quiet years in Washington, White House officials announced yesterday. | 2 |
Wal-Mart to allow unions in China stores HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- US retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) has bowed to pressure and said it will allow unions in its stores in China to unionize if employees request it, the China Daily newspaper reported. | 2 |
Richmond is in Top 10 list of dangerous cities RICHMOND, Va. Richmond is now on the Top 10 list of the nation #39;s most dangerous cities -- according to one report. The research firm Morgan Quitno says Richmond now ranks ninth when compared with more than | 2 |
Sirius Says Its Subscribers Top 800,000 By Reuters. Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said yesterday that it passed the 800,000 subscriber mark and is on track to have one million by the end of the year, further fueling the company #39;s stock. | 2 |
Home Resales Dipped Slightly Last Month Sales of existing homes edged down 0.1 percent in October, but low mortgage rates continued to contribute toward what might become a record year in home sales, a trade association report showed on Tuesday. | 2 |
Short-Handed Pacers Beat Celtics 106-96 (AP) AP - Jamaal Tinsley scored 29 points and James Jones had a career-best 22 points and 10 rebounds to lead the suspension-weakened Indiana Pacers to a 106-96 win over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday. | 1 |
FCC: 8M Wireless Users Keep Cell Numbers (AP) AP - Nearly 8 million mobile phone users have switched carriers and kept their cell numbers since a new rule allowing that flexibility went into effect one year ago, the Federal Communications Commission disclosed Tuesday. | 3 |
Williams to Be Reinstated After Suspension (AP) AP - Ricky Williams will serve a four-game suspension beginning next month, then will be reinstated to the Miami Dolphins by the NFL, according to his lawyer. | 1 |
No. 2 Kansas Defeats St. Joseph's 91-51 (AP) AP - Wayne Simien had 20 points and 13 rebounds, and No. 2 Kansas shot 63 percent during a 91-51 rout of St. Joseph's on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Iowa Upends No. 15 Texas 82-80 (AP) AP - Pierre Pierce hit a 25-foot jumper with 44 seconds left to give Iowa the lead for good, and the Hawkeyes beat No. 15 Texas 82-80 on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Maui Invitational. | 1 |
Man Fined #36;300K for Leaking 'Screeners' (AP) AP - A federal judge has imposed the maximum fine of #36;300,000 against a former member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who allegedly leaked "screener" copies of movies that were distributed on the Internet. | 3 |
Three Big Music Labels Sign Up for Peer Impact (Reuters) Reuters - Three of the Big Four music labels\have reached licensing agreements to provide their music to the\soon-to-launch Peer Impact network, a peer-to-peer service that\enables legal music file-sharing. | 3 |
Midlevel Free Agents Signing With Teams (AP) AP - While the stars take their time, midlevel free agents are starting to make deals. | 1 |
Judge in EU-Microsoft Case Calls Meeting (AP) AP - The judge deciding whether to suspend the European Union's antitrust order against software giant Microsoft Corp. pending appeal has called an unexpected meeting, two weeks after two longtime backers of the EU's case abruptly pulled out. | 3 |
JFK Assassination Game Defended as #39;Educational #39; A British company has released a video game re-creating the assassination of President Kennedy. A spokesperson for the president #39;s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, called the game quot;despicable. | 3 |
No. 11 N.C. Trumps Tennessee 94-81 (AP) AP - Rashad McCants scored 27 points and North Carolina rode a sharp first half to a 94-81 victory over Tennessee on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Maui Invitational. | 1 |
Online casino buys #39;holy #39; sarmie An online casino said it placed the winning \$28 000 bid for a 10-year-old partly eaten grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary, and wants to take it on a world tour. | 3 |
Artful Software Spots Faked Masterpieces The method could also be used to determine if more than one hand was involved in creating the work, something physical forensic science has never been able to do. | 3 |
#39;Skulls #39; Virus Attacks Nokia Smartphones Once attacked by Skulls, the only things the smartphones can do is make and receive calls. The anti-virus lab F-Secure said it had produced guidelines for users to help them remove the program and get their phones working. | 3 |
AMD announces Mobile Sempron 3000 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expanded its Mobile Sempron processor family with a higher performing model and integrated EVP anti virus technology. | 3 |
NASA changes with new budget CLEAR LAKE - Johnson Space Center spokesman Kyle Herring said Tuesday that shuttle program project managers were looking at ways to reduce costs by about 5 percent, but said he did not know if job cuts would be a part of those efforts. | 3 |
Torvalds, Windenius, Lerdorf Fight EU Software Patents The three most famous European authors of open-source software today issued an appeal against software patents in Europe. Linux author Linus Torvalds, MySQL author Michael Windenius and | 3 |
Video Game Makers Get a #39;C #39; for Effort, Critics Say Critics questions whether violent videogames like quot;BloodRayne quot; should be played by children and teenagers. The videogame industry says games with mature themes have appropriate ratings. | 3 |
VHS Format Dies at 26 A device that can record and play back video to and from videotapes (video cassettes). A trademark and industry standard for the tape format used in VCRs. | 3 |
BT digital service returns power to artists BT is launching a digital music service designed to quot;revolutionise quot; the industry and give power back to artists, labels and traditional retailers at the expense of new entrants into the market such as Apple #39;s iTunes. | 3 |
GIFT GUIDE 1: TECH amp; TOYS When the notion of creating high-definition, commercial broadcast television in the US first arose in the 1980s, few were ready for it. | 3 |
Another Survey Says Mozilla Up, IE Down Another Web browser usage survey is showing a familiar trend: Mozilla #39;s share is rising at the expense of Internet Explorer. Global usage share numbers released Monday by OneStat. | 3 |
Gartner: Renegotiate software license deals now com November 23, 2004, 10:44 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and open source initiatives are on the horizon. | 3 |
Citrix to acquire SSL VPN startup The company on Tuesday announced that it #39;s acquiring privately held security equipment maker Net6 for \$50 million in cash. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2004, will thrust | 3 |
Microsoft Is No Threat To Google -- Yet In the past decade, searching the Web has grown from an academic experiment to a multibillion-dollar business. Microsoft has not been a player, being content to outsource its MSN Search service to rival Yahoo! | 3 |
Indexing of Copyrighted Photos Lands Google in Court An adult Web site publisher is suing Google, saying the search engine company made it easier for users to see the site #39;s copyrighted nude photographs without paying or gaining access through the proper channels. | 3 |
Phishers use more sites to reel in data on accounts The number of Web sites used to steal private account information from online consumers surged in October, as banks and other financial institutions continued to struggle against Internet quot;phishing quot; schemes. | 3 |
Intel Helping Indian, Chinese Customers to Use Linux (Update3) Intel Corp., the world #39;s biggest semiconductor maker, said it #39;s helping Indian and Chinese customers build personal computers that use the Linux operating system, an alternative to Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
The Sims go to Varsity The Sims 2 University will ship this March and gives players of The Sims 2 the ability to watch their Sims become young adults and put childhood behind them as they settle into an all-new university town. | 3 |
Enterprise grid group adds Dell, two others (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) on Nov. 30 plans to announce the addition of Dell, UBS Investment Bank, and value-added reseller Avarsys to its fold. | 3 |
Blizzard ships World of Warcraft (MacCentral) MacCentral - Blizzard Entertainment on Tuesday shipped World of Warcraft, its first entry into the popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) genre. The game ships in North America, Australia and New Zealand for Mac and PC in both Standard and Collector's Editions for US #36;49.95 and #36;79.99. Further beta testing will be announced in Europe, Korea and elsewhere in Asia before the games are released in those regions. | 3 |
Union Could Get Suspensions Lessened, Experts Say NEW YORK - The NBA players union will win its appeal to reduce the suspensions doled out to Ron Artest and two other Indiana Pacers who brawled with Pistons fans last week, a sports business expert predicted Tuesday. | 1 |
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