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Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Bush website blocked outside US..Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush...The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning. Since then people outside the US trying to browse the site get a message saying they are ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Blogger grounded by her airline..A US airline attendant is fighting for her job after she was suspended over postings on her blog, or online diary...Queen of the Sky, otherwise known as Ellen Simonetti, evolved into an anonymous semi-fictional account of life in the sky. But after she posted pictures of herself in unif... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Camera phones are 'must-haves'..Four times more mobiles with cameras in them will be sold in Europe by the end of 2004 than last year, says a report from analysts Gartner...Globally, the number sold will reach 159 million, an increase of 104%. The report predicts that nearly 70% of all mobile phones sold will have a bu... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Games 'deserve a place in class'..Computer games could enhance learning and have a legitimate place in the classroom, say researchers...Academics from the Institute of Education at London University found that "games literacy" was a key skill for youngsters. As well as being used in different areas of the curriculum, g... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Nuclear body seeks new tech..The computer systems used to monitor the world's nuclear power installations are so outdated that they are hampering the work of inspectors...A spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its current technology could allow key information to be overlooked as it was more... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Web logs aid disaster recovery..Some of the most vivid descriptions of the devastation in southern Asia are on the internet - in the form of web logs or blogs...Bloggers have been offering snapshots of information from around the region and are also providing some useful information for those who want to help. Indian w... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Pandas benefit from wireless net..The world's dwindling panda population is getting a helping hand from a wireless internet network...The Wolong Nature Reserve in the Sichuan Province of southwest China is home to 20% of the remaining 1,500 giant pandas in the world. A broadband and wireless network installed on the re... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Search wars hit desktop PCs..Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google is about to be opened...By the end of 2004 Microsoft aims to launch search software to find any kind of file on a PC hard drive. The move is in answer to Google's release of its own search tool that catalogues data on desktop... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Home phones face unclear future..The fixed line phone in your home could soon be an endangered species...Research by handset maker Nokia shows that more and more people are using their mobile phone for every call they make or take. According to the study, more than 45 million people in the UK, Germany, US and South Kor... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Podcasts mark rise of DIY radio..An Apple iPod or other digital music players can hold anything up to 10,000 songs, which is a lot of space to fill...But more and more iPod owners are filling that space with audio content created by an unpredictable assortment of producers. It is called "podcasting" and its strongest p... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Sony wares win innovation award..Sony has taken the prize for top innovator at the annual awards of PC Pro Magazine...It won the award for taking risks with products and for its "brave" commitment to good design. Conferring the award, PC Pro's staff picked out Sony's PCG-X505/P Vaio laptop as a "stunning piece of engin... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Portable PlayStation ready to go..Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) will go on sale in Japan on 12 December...The long-awaited handheld game playing gadget will cost about 19,800 yen (145 euros) when it hits the shelves. At launch 21 games will be available for the PSP, including Need for Speed, Ridge Racer, Metal Gear... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Viewers to be able to shape TV..Imagine editing Titanic down to watch just your favourite bits or cutting out the slushier moments of Star Wars to leave you with a bare bones action-fest...Manipulating your favourite films to make a more personalised movie is just the beginning of an ambitious new 7.5m euro (£5.1m) pro... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Games maker fights for survival..One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale...The London-based company behind the Harry Potter games has sacked about 100 employees due to a severe cash crisis. The administrators told BBC News Online that selling Argonaut was the only way ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Pompeii gets digital make-over..The old-fashioned audio tour of historical places could soon be replaced with computer-generated images that bring the site to life...A European Union-funded project is looking at providing tourists with computer-augmented versions of archaeological attractions. It would allow visitors a... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Fast moving phone bugs appear..Security firms are warning about several mobile phone viruses that can spread much faster than similar bugs...The new strains of the Cabir mobile phone virus use short-range radio technology to leap to any vulnerable phone as soon as it is in range. The Cabir virus only affects high-end h... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Joke e-mail virus tricks users..A virus that disguises itself as a joke is spreading rapidly across the net...Anti-virus firms are issuing high-level warnings about the new version of the Bagle e-mail program that seems to be catching a lot of people out. The Windows virus grabs e-mail addresses from Microsoft Outlook ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Progress on new internet domains..By early 2005 the net could have two new domain names...The .post and .travel net domains have been given preliminary approval by the net's administrative body. The names are just two of a total of 10 proposed domains that are being considered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned N... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Argonaut founder rebuilds empire..Jez San, the man behind the Argonaut games group which went into administration a week ago, has bought back most of the company...The veteran games developer has taken over the Cambridge-based Just Add Monsters studios and the London subsidiary Morpheme. The Argonaut group went into ad... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Dozens held over ID fraud site..Twenty-eight people, including a Briton, have been arrested after a global operation against a website allegedly involved in identity fraud...Those arrested are accused of operating Shadowcrew.com, which investigators claim was a global clearing house for criminals involved in credit car... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Robots learn 'robotiquette' rules..Robots are learning lessons on "robotiquette" - how to behave socially - so they can mix better with humans...By playing games, like pass-the-parcel, a University of Hertfordshire team is finding out how future robot companions should react in social situations. The study's findings w... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Concerns over Windows ATMs..Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses, a security firm has warned...The warning is being issued because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines. Already there have been four incidents in which Windows viruses have disrupted n... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Attack prompts Bush site block..The official re-election site of President George W Bush is blocking visits from overseas users for "security reasons"...The blocking began early on Monday so those outside the US and trying to view the site got a message saying they are not authorised to view it. But keen net users have... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Loyalty cards idea for TV addicts..Viewers could soon be rewarded for watching TV as loyalty cards come to a screen near you...Any household hooked up to Sky could soon be using smartcards in conjunction with their set-top boxes. Broadcasters such as Sky and ITV could offer viewers loyalty points in return for watching... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | The Force is strong in Battlefront..The warm reception that has greeted Star Wars: Battlefront is a reflection not of any ingenious innovation in its gameplay, but of its back-to-basics approach and immense nostalgia quotient...Geared towards online gamers, it is based around little more than a series of all-out gunfig... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 'Ultimate game' award for Doom 3..Sci-fi shooter Doom 3 has blasted away the competition at a major games ceremony, the Golden Joystick awards...It was the only title to win twice, winning Ultimate Game of the year and best PC game at the awards, presented by Little Britain star Matt Lucas. The much-anticipated sci-fi ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Gadget show heralds MP3 season..Partners of those who love their hi-tech gear may want to get their presents in early as experts predict a gadget shortage this Christmas...With Apple's iPod topping wish lists again, there may not be enough iPod minis to go round, predicts Oliver Irish, editor of gadget magazine Stuff. ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Commodore finds new lease of life..The once-famous Commodore computer brand could be resurrected after being bought by a US-based digital music distributor...New owner Yeahronimo Media Ventures has not ruled out the possibility of a new breed of Commodore computers. It also plans to develop a "worldwide entertainment c... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Broadband in the UK growing fast..High-speed net connections in the UK are proving more popular than ever...BT reports that more people signed up for broadband in the last three months than in any other quarter. The 600,000 connections take the total number of people in the UK signing up for broadband from BT to almost... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Slim PlayStation triples sales..Sony PlayStation 2's slimmer shape has proved popular with UK gamers, with 50,000 sold in its first week on sale...Sales have tripled since launch, outstripping Microsoft's Xbox, said market analysts Chart-Track. The numbers were also boosted by the release of the PS2-only game Grand The... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Seamen sail into biometric future..The luxury cruise liner Crystal Harmony, currently in the Gulf of Mexico, is the unlikely setting for tests of biometric technology...As holidaymakers enjoy balmy breezes, their ship's crew is testing prototype versions of the world's first internationally issued biometric ID cards, t... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | US duo in first spam conviction..A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers...It is the first criminal prosecution of internet spam distributors. Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in pri... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | US blogger fired by her airline..A US airline attendant suspended over "inappropriate images" on her blog - web diary - says she has been fired...Ellen Simonetti, known as Queen of the Sky, wrote an anonymous semi-fictional account of her life in the sky. She was suspended by Delta in September. In a statement, she sai... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Gates opens biggest gadget fair..Bill Gates has opened the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, saying that gadgets are working together more to help people manage multimedia content around the home and on the move...Mr Gates made no announcement about the next generation Xbox games console, which many gadget ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | GTA sequel is criminally good..The Grand Theft Auto series of games have set themselves the very highest of standards in recent years, but the newest addition is more than able to live up to an increasingly grand tradition...The 18 certificate GTA: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 could have got away with merely revis... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | BT offers free net phone calls..BT is offering customers free internet telephone calls if they sign up to broadband in December...The Christmas give-away entitles customers to free telephone calls anywhere in the UK via the internet. Users will need to use BT's internet telephony software, known as BT Communicator, and... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | When invention turns to innovation..It is unlikely that future technological inventions are going to have the same kind of transformative impact that they did in the past...When history takes a look back at great inventions like the car and transistor, they were defining technologies which ultimately changed people's l... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Firefox browser takes on Microsoft..Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which has just been released...Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the program is not a game or a music or movie player. But the release of the first ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Halo fans' hope for sequel..Xbox video game Halo 2 has been released in the US on 9 November, with a UK release two days later. Why is the game among the most anticipated of all time?..Halo is considered by many video game pundits to be one of the finest examples of interactive entertainment ever produced and more than... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Players sought for $1m prize..UK gamers are getting a chance to take part in a $1m tournament thanks to one of the country's top teams...The Four-Kings clan is staging a Pop Idol type competition to find new members who can take on the world's best in the lucrative tournament. Four-Kings hopes the open qualifiers will ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | US top of supercomputing charts..The US has pushed Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM's prototype Blue Gene/L machine...It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, under the US Department of Energy. IBM test results show that Blue Gene/L has managed speeds of 70.72 teraflop... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Text messages aid disaster recovery..Text messaging technology was a valuable communication tool in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in Asia...The messages can get through even when the cell phone signal is too weak to sustain a spoken conversation. Now some are studying how the technology behind SMS could be bett... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Putting a face to 'Big Brother'..Literally putting a face on technology could be one of the keys to improving our interaction with hi-tech gadgets...Imagine a surveillance system that also presents a virtual embodiment of a person on a screen who can react to your behaviour, and perhaps even alert you to new e-mails. B... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Football Manager scores big time..For the past decade or so the virtual football fans among us will have become used to the annual helping of Championship Manager (CM). Indeed, it seems like there has been a CM game for as many years as there have been PCs...However, last year was the final time that developers Sports ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Musicians 'upbeat' about the net..Musicians are embracing the internet as a way of reaching new fans and selling more music, a survey has found...The study by US researchers, Pew Internet, suggests musicians do not agree with the tactics adopted by the music industry against file-sharing. While most considered file-sha... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Broadband takes on TV viewing..The number of Europeans with broadband has exploded over the past 12 months, with the web eating into TV viewing habits, research suggests...Just over 54 million people are hooked up to the net via broadband, up from 34 million a year ago, according to market analysts Nielsen/NetRatings. ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Freeze on anti-spam campaign..A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold...Earlier this week the company released a screensaver that bombarded the sites with data to try to bump up the running costs of the websites. But the site hosting the screensaver now displays a pin... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | ITunes user sues Apple over iPod..A user of Apple's iTunes music service is suing the firm saying it is unfair he can only use an iPod to play songs...He says Apple is breaking anti-competition laws in refusing to let other music players work with the site. Apple, which opened its online store in 2003 after launching t... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Microsoft gets the blogging bug..Software giant Microsoft is taking the plunge into the world of blogging...It is launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces. Microsoft is trailing behind competitors like Google and AOL, which already offer services which make it eas... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Broadband fuels online change..Fast web access is encouraging more people to express themselves online, research suggests...A quarter of broadband users in Britain regularly upload content and have personal sites, according to a report by UK think-tank Demos. It said that having an always-on, fast connection is changin... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 'Blog' picked as word of the year..The term "blog" has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher...Merriam-Webster said "blog" headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months. During 2004 blogs, or web logs, have become hugely popular and some have started to inf... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | New Year's texting breaks record..A mobile phone was as essential to the recent New Year's festivities as a party mood and Auld Lang Syne, if the number of text messages sent is anything to go by...Between midnight on 31 December and midnight on 1 January, 133m text messages were sent in the UK. It is the highest ever ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | DS aims to touch gamers..The mobile gaming industry is set to explode in 2005 with a number of high-profile devices offering a range of gaming and other features such as movie and music playback. Market leader Nintendo, however, is releasing a handheld console that it says will revolutionise the way games are played...... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | No half measures with Half-Life 2..Could Half-Life 2 possibly live up to the hype? After almost two years of tantalising previews and infuriating delays it's safe to say that this is the most highly-anticipated computer game of all time...Fortunately, it doesn't merely live up to its promise, but exceeds it. No-one who... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Games win for Blu-ray DVD format..The next-generation DVD format Blu-ray is winning more supporters than its rival, according to its backers...Blu-ray, backed by 100 firms including Sony, is competing against Toshiba and NEC-backed HD-DVD to be the format of choice for future films and games. The Blu-Ray Association sa... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | File-swappers ready new network..Legal attacks on websites that help people swap pirated films have forced the development of a system that could be harder to shut down...One site behind the success of the BitTorrent file-swapping system is producing its own software that avoids the pitfalls of the earlier program. A t... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Online games play with politics..After bubbling under for some time, online games broke through onto the political arena in 2004...The US presidential election provided a showcase for many, aimed at talking directly to a generation that has grown up with joysticks and gamepads. Experts say this reflects how video games... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Broadband challenges TV viewing..The number of Europeans with broadband has exploded over the past 12 months, with the web eating into TV viewing habits, research suggests...Just over 54 million people are hooked up to the net via broadband, up from 34 million a year ago, according to market analysts Nielsen/NetRatings... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Freeze on anti-spam campaign..A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold...Earlier this week the company released a screensaver that bombarded the sites with data to try to bump up the running costs of the websites. But the site hosting the screensaver now displays a pin... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Halo 2 sells five million copies..Microsoft is celebrating bumper sales of its Xbox sci-fi shooter, Halo 2...The game has sold more than five million copies worldwide since it went on sale in mid-November, the company said. Halo 2 has proved popular online, with gamers notching up a record 28 million hours playing the ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | When technology gets personal..In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly passé. By then phones will be printed directly on to wrists, or other parts of the body, says Ian Pearson, BT's resident futurologist...It's all part of what's known as a "pervasive ambient world", where "chips a... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Microsoft gets the blogging bug..Software giant Microsoft is taking the plunge into the world of blogging...It is launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces. Microsoft is trailing behind competitors like Google and AOL, which already offer services which make it eas... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Doors open at biggest gadget fair..Thousands of technology lovers and industry experts have gathered in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...The fair showcases the latest technologies and gadgets that will hit the shops in the next year. About 50,000 new products will be unveiled as the show unfol... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Who do you think you are?..The real danger is not what happens to your data as it crosses the net, argues analyst Bill Thompson. It is what happens when it arrives at the other end...The Financial Services Authority has warned banks and other financial institutions that members of criminal gangs may be applying for job... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 'Brainwave' cap controls computer..A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer...Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes. Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 'Brainwave' cap controls computer..A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer...Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes. Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Europe backs digital TV lifestyle..How people receive their digital entertainment in the future could change, following the launch of an ambitious European project...In Nice last week, the European Commission announced its Networked & Electronic Media (NEM) initiative. Its broad scope stretches from the way media is cr... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | A decade of good website design..The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago...Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear. But, says usability guru Dr Jakob Nielsen, some things have stayed constant in that decade, namely the p... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 2D Metal Slug offers retro fun..Like some drill sergeant from the past, Metal Slug 3 is a wake-up call to today's gamers molly-coddled with slick visuals and fancy trimmings...With its hand-animated sprites and 2D side-scrolling, this was even considered retro when released in arcades four years ago. But a more frantic... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Casual gaming to 'take off'..Games aimed at "casual players" are set to be even bigger in 2005, according to industry experts...Easy-to-play titles that do not require too much time and that are playable online or downloadable to mobile devices will see real growth in the coming year. The trend shows that gaming is not... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | 'Ultimate game' award for Doom 3..Sci-fi shooter Doom 3 has blasted away the competition at a major games ceremony, the Golden Joystick awards...It was the only title to win twice, winning Ultimate Game of the year and best PC game at the awards, presented by Little Britain star Matt Lucas. The much-anticipated sci-fi ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Gadget show heralds MP3 Christmas..Partners of those who love their hi-tech gear may want to get their presents in early as experts predict a gadget shortage this Christmas...With Apple's iPod topping wish lists again, there may not be enough iPod minis to go round, predicts Oliver Irish, editor of gadget magazine Stuf... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Supercomputer breaks speed record..The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM's prototype Blue Gene/L machine...It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a US Department of Energy (DOE) lab. DOE test results show that Blue Gene/L has managed speeds of 70.... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Gadgets galore on show at fair..The 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a geek's paradise with more than 50,000 new gadgets and technologies launched during the four-day event...Top gadgets at the show are highlighted in the Innovations Showcase, which recognises some of the hottest developments in consumer ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Broadband in the UK growing fast..High-speed net connections in the UK are proving more popular than ever...BT reports that more people signed up for broadband in the last three months than in any other quarter. The 600,000 connections take the total number of people in the UK signing up for broadband from BT to almost... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | US duo in first spam conviction..A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers...It is the first criminal prosecution of internet spam distributors. Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in pri... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Microsoft debuts security tools..Microsoft is releasing tools that clean up PCs harbouring viruses and spyware...The virus-fighting program will be updated monthly and is a precursor to Microsoft releasing dedicated anti-virus software. Also being released is a software utility that will help users find and remove any ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Slimmer PlayStation triple sales..Sony PlayStation 2's slimmer shape has proved popular with UK gamers, with 50,000 sold in its first week on sale...Sales have tripled since launch, outstripping Microsoft's Xbox, said market analysts Chart-Track. The numbers were also boosted by the release of the PS2-only game Grand T... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Seamen sail into biometric future..The luxury cruise liner Crystal Harmony, currently in the Gulf of Mexico, is the unlikely setting for tests of biometric technology...As holidaymakers enjoy balmy breezes, their ship's crew is testing prototype versions of the world's first internationally issued biometric ID cards, t... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | US blogger fired by her airline..A US airline attendant suspended over "inappropriate images" on her blog - web diary - says she has been fired...Ellen Simonetti, known as Queen of the Sky, wrote an anonymous semi-fictional account of her life in the sky. She was suspended by Delta in September. In a statement, she sai... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Mobiles double up as bus tickets..Mobiles could soon double up as travel cards, with Nokia planning to try out a wireless ticket system on German buses...Early next year travellers in the city of Hanau, near Frankfurt, will be able to pay for tickets by passing their phone over a smart-card reader already installed on ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Mobile gig aims to rock 3G..Forget about going to a crowded bar to enjoy a gig by the latest darlings of the music press...Now you could also be at a live gig on your mobile, via the latest third generation (3G) video phones. Rock outfit Rooster are playing what has been billed as the first ever concert broadcast by ph... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Consumers 'snub portable video'..Consumers want music rather than movies while on the move, says a report...Produced by Jupiter Research the analysis of the portable media player market found only 13% of Europeans want to watch video while out and about. By contrast, almost a third are interested in listening to music ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Learning to love broadband..We are reaching the point where broadband is a central part of daily life, at least for some, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson...One of the nice things about being a writer is that I rarely have to go to an office to work. I can sit in a café or a library, with or without a wi-fi... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Nintendo DS aims to touch gamers..The mobile gaming industry is set to explode in 2005 with a number of high-profile devices offering a range of gaming and other features such as movie and music playback. Market leader Nintendo, however, is releasing a handheld console that it says will revolutionise the way games are ... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | China 'blocks Google news site'..China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders...The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days. It said the aim was to force people to use a Chinese edition of the s... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | A question of trust and technology..A major government department is without e-mail for a week, and technology analyst Bill Thompson wants to know what happened...A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my girlfriend had suffered when her cable modem blew up and she was offline for several days. It seems that thousands... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Call for action on internet scam..Phone companies are not doing enough to warn customers about internet "rogue-dialling" scams, according to premium phone line regulator Icstis...It has received 45,000 complaints in recent months about dial-up internet connections diverting to premium rate numbers without users' knowle... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Screensaver tackles spam websites..Net users are getting the chance to fight back against spam websites..Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar b... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | First look at PlayStation 3 chip..Some details of the chip inside Sony's PlayStation 3 have been revealed...Sony, IBM and Toshiba have released limited data about the so-called Cell chip that will be able to carry out trillions of calculations per second. The chip will be made of several different processing cores that... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Online commons to spark debate..Online communities set up by the UK government could encourage public debate and build trust, says the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR)...Existing services such as eBay could provide a good blueprint for such services, says the think-tank. Although the net is becoming part of l... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Mobile gaming takes off in India..Gaming on the move is one of the fastest-growing activities among the tech-savvy in India, says a report...The Indian mobile gaming market is expected to generate about $26m (£13.8m) by the end of 2004, according to market analysts In-Stat/MDR. In October, mobile phone users grew by 1.... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Gadget market 'to grow in 2005'..The explosion in consumer technology is to continue into 2005, delegates at the world's largest gadget show, in Las Vegas, have been told...The number of gadgets in the shops is predicted to grow by 11%, while devices which talk to each other will become increasingly important. "Everyth... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Swap offer for pirated Windows XP..Computer giant Microsoft has launched a pilot scheme to replace counterfeit versions of Windows XP with legal ones...The first-time initiative is restricted to the UK and to users with pre-installed copies of the operating system in PCs bought before November. Until December Microsoft... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Ban hits Half-Life 2 pirates hard..About 20,000 people have been banned from playing the Half-Life 2 game...Game maker Valve shut down the online accounts of the players because it had evidence that their copy of the game had been obtained illegally. Copies of Half-Life 2 had been circulating on file-sharing systems so... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | New browser wins over net surfers..The proportion of surfers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has dropped to below 90%, say web analysts...Net traffic monitor, OneStat.com, has reported that the open-source browser Firefox 1.0, released on 9 November, seems to be drawing users away from IE. While IE's market sh... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Smartphones suffer Skulls attack..Owners of some Nokia smartphones are being warned to watch out for malicious wallpaper...Those downloading the software could find all the icons on their 7610 phone swapped for images of skulls. When installed the malicious program also locks many of the 7610's functions making it hard... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Musical future for phones..Analyst Bill Thompson has seen the future and it is in his son's hands...I bought my son Max a 3G phone, partly because they are so cheap and he needed a phone, and partly because I am supposed to know about the latest technology and thought I should see how they work in real life. After usin... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Multi-purpose TV aids India..Two-thirds of the world's population, 4 billion people, live on $2,000 a year or less...You might think that the last thing on their minds would be getting a television set or a computer. But that's not the case. Many people in the developing world give up one of their daily meals so they c... | tech |
Act as a classifier. Categorize the given article into one of the following predefined categories: 'business,' 'entertainment,' 'politics,' 'sport,' or 'tech.' Return only the category label without any additional text. Ensure accurate categorization based solely on the content of the article: | Computer grid to help the world..Your computer can now help solve the world's most difficult health and social problems...Launched this week, the World Community Grid will use idle computer time to test solutions to these problems. The donated processor cycles will help the WCG create virtual supercomputers via the net... | tech |
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