Intuit Posts Wider Loss After Charge (Reuters) Reuters - Intuit Inc. (INTU.O), maker of\the No. 1 U.S. tax presentation software TurboTax, on Wednesday\posted a wider quarterly loss after taking a goodwill\impairment charge during its seasonally weaker fourth quarter.!ref!3,1,2
Selling Houston Warts and All, Especially Warts characteristic of urban afflictions and images of giant mosquitoes and cockroaches to convey a sense of how Houston is nevertheless beloved by many residents.!ref!2,1,3
Holiday-Shopping Season Remains low (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. shoppers have kept a tight database\on their wallets this holiday season with indices on itunes\showing sluggish sales in the second week of the  season.!ref!2,1,3
Justices to debate mail-order wine ing freelance wine critics may sound like a sweet gig, but Ray and Eleanor Heald have soured on it. because their home state, Michigan, blocks direct deliveries from out-of-state!ref!2,1,3
Bill Clinton Helps internet Search Engine Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.!ref!3,1,2
Caterpillar snaps up another remanufacturer of engines PEORIA - Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it will acquire a South Carolina remanufacturer of engines and automatic transmissions, increasing its US employment base by 500 people.!ref!3,1,2
Ciena Posts a Loss, Forecasts Flat Sales <sb></q><p> By Deborah Cohen</qb><p> CHICAGO (Reuters) - Telecommunications equipment s Corp. <CIEN.O> on Thursday following a wider loss for thefiscal third quarter due to slack demand and forecast sales inthe current quarter would be little changed from the thirdquarter.</p>!ref!3,1,2
Ecuadorean Lawsuit Vs Texaco world Down to Science (Reuters) reuters - After a decade\of court battles, lawyers on Wednesday took a lawsuit by\Ecuadorean Indians accusing U.S. oil firm ChevronTexaco Corp..\of polluting the Amazon jungle into the field.!ref!3,1,2
Court: File-swapping software not liable for copyright violations The makers of two leading file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works swapped online by their users, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a stinging blow to the entertainment industry.!ref!3,1,2
Ohio Sues Best Buy, Alleging Used Sales (AP) AP - Ohio authorities sued Best Buy Co. Inc. on Thursday, alleging the electronics retailer engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices.!ref!2,1,3
Briefly: China interest in key software unit China is interested in participating in the bidding for shell, the top oil-producing subsidiary of the Russian oil giant Yukos, a Chinese economic report was quoted as saying in a report Thursday by the Russian news agency russia. The ...!ref!2,1,3
Best be a Bad Deal? Attorney General Jim Petro is suing Best Buy, alleging the electronics vendors has engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices.!ref!2,1,3
Iraq Oil Exports Still Halved After Basra HQ Attack BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq continued to export co₂ at one  million barrels per day on Friday after an attack on the South  Oil Company headquarters took sabotage operations to a new  level, an official at the state-owned entity said.!ref!0,1,2
Vt. sues over baby drugs Vermont's Republican governor denounced the Bush administration's prescription drug policy in federal sburg yesterday, marking the first time a state has chosen a legal ity in the expanding battle over Canadian imports.!ref!2,1,0
P2P Services in the Clear In a major setback for the music and movie industries, a federal appeals court upholds a lower court's decision in the infamous Grokster case, ruling peer-to-peer services Morpheus and Grokster are not liable for the copyright infringement of their users. By Katie Dean.!ref!3,1,2
Swap Your PC, or Your President the producer of ads selling PC users who switched to Macs is applying the same tactic to political commercials. This time, more focus on former backers of President Bush, listed online, who've changed their political allegiance. By Louise Witt.!ref!3,1,2
Producer sues for Rings profits Hollywood producer Saul Zaentz sues the producers of The Lord of the Rings for \$20m in royalties.!ref!0,1,2
Google scores first-day bump of 18 (USATODAY.com) world.com - Even a big first-day jump in shares of Google (GOOG) couldn't quiet debate over whether the Internet search engine's contentious auction was a hit or a flop.!ref!3,1,2
Carly Patterson Wins gymnastics All-Around s gold (thessaloniki) - Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva  Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in eight decade to  winning the women's Olympic gymnastics total gold medal on  Thursday.!ref!1,1,0
Services make big gains in Japan Tertiary index come in at almost double expectations, drives up yen and helps china overcome oil. LONDON (Reuters) - The yen hit a four-week high against the dollar Friday as stronger-than-expected Japanese service market data raised optimism about the ...!ref!2,1,3
Don #39;t expect Tiger to relinquish his top ranking without a fight They #39;re calling Ohio a  quot;battleground state, quot; one of the two or three places likely to decide November #39;s presidential election. On local TV, the Bush and Kerry ads air so frequently that it #39;s easy to forget it #39;s Bob Costas who actually runs the country.!ref!1,1,2
Service packs, senators and civil liberties &taxes;p<int:>/q&cb; The bulging postbag gives up its secrets!ref!3,1,2
Clicking on Profits The latest data from the US Department of Commerce further bolsters what we have all suspected: E-commerce sales are increasing. Not only might one suspect that consumer confidence has been bolstered since last year, there ...!ref!2,1,3
French wins Gold, Bronze in Single Kayak athens, Greece - champion on whitewater runs in the family for Frenchman Benoit Peschier, with an olympic gold is something new. Peschier paddled his one-man kayak aggressively but hit free in both his semifinal and final runs on the manmade Olympic ...!ref!1,1,0
Crude Price spikes May Send Gas Higher (AP) today - Amid soaring crude oil prices, gasoline costs have been dropping. But don't expect that to happened, economists say.!ref!0,1,2
Amazon Snaps Up China's Largest Web Retailer (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has said it will buy Joyo.com Limited -- a British Virgin Islands company that operates the largest Internet retail Web site in China -- for US #36;75 million.!ref!2,1,3
Court cannot Halt Arch Coal's Triton Bid (s) Reuters - A U.S. appeals courts ruled on f\that Arch Coal Inc. (ACI.N) may proceed with its bid to use the\assets of rival Triton Coal co. LLC, denying an alleged\push by the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, a\spokesman for the agency said.!ref!2,1,3
One in four servers to run Linux by 2008 without a report, the research firm painted a bright future for the open source operating system, knowing that shipments of servers run Linux -- and revenues from those distributed -- will rise significantly over the next five years.!ref!3,1,2
Italian team #39;s transplant confirmed After days of speculation sparked by the white bandanna worn by Mr Berlusconi on holiday in Sardinia, Piero Rosati said the results of the operation ll show in a couple of months.!ref!0,1,1
Samsung plans to invest Won25,000bn in chips Samsung Electronics, the world #39;s second largest computer chip manufacturer, yesterday said that it would invest Won25,000bn (\$24bn) in its semiconductor business by 2010 to generate!ref!2,1,3
Strongwoman hoists 100th gold for Chinese delegation Tang Gonghong lifted a world record to claim in Athens the 100th Olympic gold for China among its participation in 1984 Olympic Games on sports when!ref!1,1,0
Chavez victory confirmed Caracas, Venezuela - The results of an audit support the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this month #39;s recall referendum in Venezuela, the head of the Organization of American States said Saturday.!ref!2,1,0
Lithuanians deliver NBA stars another Olympic basketball dunking (AFP) AFP - Lithuania defeated the United States 94-90 in an Olympic men's basketball preliminary round game, only the fourth loss in 115 Olympic starts for the defending champions.!ref!1,1,0
Video Game Makers Go Hollywood. Uh-Oh. OVIE producers are often criticized for running at the sight of original ideas, preferring instead to milk plays, books, news events, toys and even video games for their screenplays.!ref!3,1,2
Glory Comes Amid Empty Seats and Closed Shutters HERE in Old Europe, people install shutters outside their windows to keep out the heat, the pollution, the daylight, the noise. They also lock the shutters tight when they go away on holiday.!ref!1,1,2
Unknown Nesterenko Makes World Headlines (Reuters) Reuters - Belarus' Yuliya Nesterenko won the top\women's athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday,\triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of\doping woes to win the 100 meters.!ref!0,1,1
Ready to Bet on Alternative Energy? Well, Think Again When oil prices rise, public interest in alternative energy often does, too. and the logic is simply escaping wall Street.!ref!2,1,3
Fatah hopes Barghouti will take back ruling Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian movement, hopes that its former gaza Bank leader Marwan Barghouti would take back his candidacy for the sep. 9 presidential election.!ref!0,1,2
Greek weightlifter awaits verdict Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis will find out on Sunday if he is to be stripped of his medal.!ref!0,1,1
China confronts competition of pipelines China will spend about \$3.4 billion over two to three century laying thousands of miles of oil pipelines to help secure its energy supply in the face of soaring prices and demand.!ref!2,1,3
Colgate to cut workforce CONSUMER goods maker industry said today it would cut about 12 per cent of its 37,000-person work force and close a third of its factory worldwide as part of a four-year restructuring.!ref!2,1,3
A Founding Father? Give the guy some credit. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong #39;s embattled Chief Executive, gets precious little of it from his people these daysand heaps of!ref!0,1,2
PRESS START FOR NOSTALGIA like Led zeppelin #39;s  #39; #39;Stairway to Heaven #39; #39; and Lynyrd Skynyrd #39;s  #39; #39;Freebird, #39; #39; classic childhood games like Frogger and Pong can bring back an entire era.!ref!3,1,2
Men Set for Sizzling Duel in 100 m ATHENS, athens - The preliminaries in the 100 meters were apparently just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers - leading Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending player Maurice Greene - will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens games.    Five boys broke 10 seconds in qualifying s, led by Crawford's time of 9.89...!ref!0,1,1
Ulmer storms to gold New Zealand #39;s Sarah Ulmer stormed to gold in the women #39;s individual pursuit in a new world record time. Ulmer, fourth in Sydney four years ago, beat Australia #39;s Katie Mactier in a time of three minutes 24.!ref!1,1,0
Agency reports climate change major problem Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europes environmental agency warned Wednesday.!ref!3,1,0
Will High Oil Prices Lead to Recession? (AP) AP - High oil prices, which have been a factor in virtually all U.S. recessions over the past three decades, are surging again this year. And the higher crude oil prices climb, the more risk energy costs pose to what, until recently, many expected to be a banner year for the U.S. economy.!ref!2,1,1
Labor: Anti-Peres meetings scheduled for Sunday Labor members have scheduled two  #39;rebel #39; anti-Peres conferences for Sunday, one to be headed by mk Matan Vilnai and the second by MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.!ref!0,1,2
U.S. Gymnasts Win 3 Medals; Hamm Angry (s) AP - Terin Humphrey and Annia Hatch got silver. Courtney Kupets got bronze. And Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984. And they might not be finished yet.!ref!1,1,0
Noguchi Wins Marathon BULLETIN<br>BC-OLY--Women's marathon RUN,0058<surf>BULLETIN<log>    ATHENS, Greece (AP)  --  Mizuki Noguchi of Japan won the marathon edition in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds.!ref!1,1,3
Karzai scheduled for visit to Pakistan Afghan President mahmoud Karzai is to visit Pakistan to discuss fighting poverty and boosting trade.!ref!0,1,2
Senate republicans Unveils Plan for Intelligence The plan would give the proposed national director responsibilities for intelligence-gathering of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.!ref!0,1,3
Nortel Downsizes Again Aug. 23, 2004 (TheDeal.com) Problem-plagued com Networks Corp. announced plans Thursday, Aug. 19, to eliminate an additional 3,500 jobs and fire seven more senior companies as the company labors to reinvent!ref!2,1,3