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- Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! It's the beginning of the end! NEW YORK (CNN/Money)—Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, finally filed for its initial public stock offering Thursday and promised to maintain its long-term focus even though it will soon face the intense scrutiny of Wall Street. |
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- It was a quiet week, and surprisingly, The Kids have been back nearly a week now and it's still quiet. Well, not as quiet as it was when they were off with their father driving through Florida, but still, after a year, the concept of “quiet” seems to have percolated down into their psyche and they are quieter now then they were this time last year. Woot! |
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- General Project description:Support infrastructure rebuilds due to infrastructure software upgrades.Build, install, configure and maintain server infrastructure. Install Perl Modules, SSL certificates. Configure servers in load balanced environment. |
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- Paul Thurrott: Tablet PC improves. |
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I give up (Apr 30 2004 07:20 GMT) - Nerve-wrecking activities... |
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I give up (Apr 30 2004 07:20 GMT) - Nerve-wrecking activities... |
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- The action comes despite state and local governments' protests. Bill must be reconciled with House measure. |
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- Federal authorities said Thursday that they had arrested two e-mail marketers and were searching for two others in the government's first use of a new law designed to crack down on "spam" e-mail. |
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- WASHINGTON — The government posted thousands of prices for prescription drugs on its Medicare website Thursday to help seniors pick which of the dozens of new discount cards offered them the most savings. |
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- Facing arraignment today on child molestation charges, pop star Michael Jackson is about to hear some badly needed good news on the business front. |
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- The men are accused of producing 5,000 illegal copies of movies in one of the city's largest crackdowns to date. |
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- Investors from Dallas and New York buy the Beverly Hills property that once housed DreamWorks Records. |
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- EchoStar Communications Corp. and Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc. reached a tentative deal on a new contract, sparing Dish satellite TV customers the possibility of losing CNN, the Cartoon Network and other channels. |
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- Los Angles-based Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the film studio controlled by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, said its first-quarter loss narrowed to $21.3 million as it sold more DVDs and tickets to movies such as "Barbershop 2: Back in Business." |
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- Lucien C. Haas, an influential aide and speechwriter to Democratic politicians for more than 20 years, died in his sleep Tuesday at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 86. |
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- Conference fails to build tools to fight a rising sickness. |
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- Like stars in the heavens and characters in melodramatic movies, dying words may undergo a spasm of hyperactivity before they succumb once and for all. |
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- If you're looking for a symbol of how earthquakes continue to confound us, you need go no further than Vladimir Keilis-Borok. A few weeks ago, the UCLA seismologist predicted a Southern California temblor of magnitude 6.4 or greater between now and Sept. 5. Like any good scientist, Keilis-Borok hedged his bet, giving the quake a 50% chance of occurring within a 12,000-square-mile swath of desert, a set of parameters so vast that it represents a prediction in name alone. |
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- This week, the European Union celebrates its historic expansion to 25 members from 15, welcoming former Soviet republics and satellites in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, Slovenia, Cyprus (at least the Greek half) and Malta. With a population of 455 million, an economy of $9 trillion and more than 1.5 million troops, Europe today is a superpower by any measure. And, ironically, it's showing off that power by doing a better job than the United States in promoting what ought to be U.S. |
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- Iraqi captors demanded protests against troop deployment after one detainee was slain. Some see the demonstration as appeasing blackmailers. |
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- COPENHAGEN — Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Thursday that falling support among Americans for the war in Iraq reflected the "several tough weeks" that the U.S.-led coalition has faced there. |
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- WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are considering setting up a special reserve fund to pay for U.S. military operations in Iraq, which would avert the need for President Bush to formally request extra Iraq funds before the November election. |
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- Abu Bakar Bashir, who is accused of heading a terror group, was due to be released today. Some of his supporters clash with police; 50 are hurt. |
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- BERLIN — Western nations pledged Thursday to fight "new forms" of anti-Semitism, rejecting any attempt to use the strife in the Middle East as a justification for hate crimes against Jews. |
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- About 50 masked protesters who occupied the San Salvador cathedral for about 24 hours abandoned the building after meeting with a church official. No arrests were made. |
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- Former soccer great Diego Maradona surprisingly checked out of a hospital after 11 days in intensive care for heart and lung problems. He departed the Suizo-Argentina hospital in near-secrecy, leaving in a car with tinted windows. Maradona, 43, left to seek "more personalized treatment" from his own doctor, his medical team said. |
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- A bitterly contested media bill received final approval in Italy's Senate, despite opposition claims that it was tailor-made for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's business empire. |
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- About 3,000 anti-globalization activists marched in Warsaw against a European economic summit, protesting capitalism, unemployment and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Police barriers kept the protesters away from a hotel where hundreds of business and political leaders attended the second day of a conference on the future of the expanded European Union. |
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- European Union officials meeting in Luxembourg approved $311 million in aid to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus — a reward for its vote in favor of a U.N. plan to reunify the island. |
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- WASHINGTON — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, testifying Thursday before a congressional subcommittee, drastically underestimated the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since the war began. |
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- KUSTANAI, Kazakhstan — A Soyuz space capsule touched down safely today on the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing a Russian, an American and a Dutchman back from the international space station. |
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- The president rebukes his Justice Department for partisan motives in making public documents related to a 9/11 panel member. |
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- Margaret Tutwiler says her exit after brief stint as public diplomacy chief is not due to policy differences. Expert calls resignation a 'muck-up.' |
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- The challenger links contributions to Bush to the administration's forgoing stricter standards, citing risks to big population centers. |
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- PHILADELPHIA — Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. |
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- WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), a Roman Catholic who supports abortion rights, said Thursday that she would continue to ask for Holy Communion despite of Vatican opposition. |
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- The Senate was unable to resurrect stalled energy legislation, falling short of the votes to back a doubling in U.S. ethanol use or push for a much broader package of energy reforms. |
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- Marines map out a plan to let an Iraqi force step in, but U.S. officials say no deal has been struck. |
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