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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page St Louis Star.com http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/6034630751577834/ en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:33:44 -0400 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:33:44 -0400 30 It was a typical day on Wall Street Tuesday with bears again dominating trading. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/396499/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:25:43 -0400 St Louis Star.com http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/396499/cs/1/ WASHINGTON -- Despite declining energy costs, wholesale prices soared in July, giving the economy the worst 12 months of inflation in almost three decades and increasing pressure on the Federal Reser... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038387/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:10:03 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038387/ By Jessica Hodgson Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Novell Inc. (NOVL) are extending an 18-month-old agreement, aimed at making it easier for big custo... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038242/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:28:20 -0400 Smart Money http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038242/ Bells ringing: A fitness center based on Russian kettlebells is coming to Durham. Rapid Results Fitness is holding its grand opening from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 4125 Chapel Hill Blvd., where i... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038254/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:37 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038254/ General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will extend employee discounts to everyone on almost all of its 2008 and some of its 2009 models as it seeks to clear its remaining inventory of 2008 vehicles. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038252/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:33 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038252/ Wholesale inflation soared in July, leaving prices rising at the fastest pace in nearly three decades. While recent declines in oil and other commodity prices raise hopes inflation may have peaked, so... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038256/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:41 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038256/ Salesforce.com is again expanding beyond its customer-relationship management roots with an acquisition designed to broaden its service and platform. The company has acquired InStranet, a Chicago-b... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038396/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:56 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038396/ Verizon CTO Richard Lynch tells conference attendees that engineers, not lobbyists or interest groups, should be making decisions on how to manage broadband networks. He says some Net neutrality advoc... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038393/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:53 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038393/ SAN FRANCISCO--Intel plans to bring its first dual-core Atom to market next month, it was revealed here Monday during the Intel Developer Forum. The power-efficient mobile processor will be targete... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038395/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:55 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038395/ Last month Nvidia disclosed that due to a manufacturing flaw, some of their laptop computer graphics processors and chipsets are overheating and failing. This is a brief summary of the story for those... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038389/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:46 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038389/ Apple Inc. said Tuesday that batteries from a single supplier are to blame for the meltdown of some models of its tiny iPod Nano digital music player. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038248/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:28 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038248/ This post was updated at 1:45 p.m. PDT with comment from MBTA General Manager Daniel Grabauskas. BOSTON--The three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who have been barred by a court order... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038388/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:44 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038388/ E-mail Prioritizer that will not only sort through your in-box to figure out what's important, but also give you an honest-to-goodness pause button in case you want to escape an Exchange server e-mail... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038391/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:48 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038391/ Palm jumped the gun on the introduction of the Treo Pro on Tuesday, briefly posting a few pictures and a video on its site before yanking them down. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on whether... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038392/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:48:51 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038392/ Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it sl... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038249/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:29 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038249/ Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge -- stiffer personal-computer competition -- that... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038253/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:36 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038253/ unusual scenario in which the world's dominant proprietary software vendor is helping to market open-source software such as Linux began in November 2006, when the two former foes agreed to a set of p... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038240/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:47:44 -0400 Computerworld http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038240/ From affluent shoppers at Saks to bargain-hunters at Target, from Home Depot to office supplier Staples, consumers are pulling back and that's hurting retailers and raising more concerns about how the... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038255/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:38 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038255/ General Dynamics Corp. said Tuesday it will buy Jet Aviation for about $2.25 billion in cash, part of the defense contractor's push to expand its private civilian jet business and tap into robust dema... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038251/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:32 -0400 Herald Sun http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038251/ HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Shanghai stocks soared Wednesday on speculation that the Chinese government was considering a fiscal stimulus package, triggering a recovery across the region. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038400/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:44:22 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038400/ The famed gold medals are mostly made of silver, not gold. Only six grams, or 0.19 ounce, of gold is required to coat the medal. With gold futures closing at $806 an ounce on Monday, an Olympic gold m... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038402/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:44:18 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038402/ WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. home builders sharply reduced the number of new homes starting construction in July and dropped the number of new single-family permits to the lowest level in 26 years... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038398/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:44:16 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038398/ Over the past 12 months, Medical Technology Stock Letter is up 10.4% according to the Hulbert Financial Digest, vs. negative 10.23% for the dividend-reinvested Dow Jones Wilshire 5000. Over the past t... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038403/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:44:16 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038403/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- China has increased its power prices for the second time in two months, raising on-grid rates by about 5% to head off a looming power crisis. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038404/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:44:15 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17038404/ RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Circuit City Stores Inc. said Tuesday it's still considering a sale of the company, 4 months after the consumer electronics retailer first announced it was reviewing its options ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034286/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:09:58 -0400 Fortune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034286/ Pocket Change is about to jingle a whole lot louder. The 100,000 subscriber digital newsletter and news site aimed at identifying luxury products and creating events for the young and wealthy is in t... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034285/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:09:53 -0400 Forbes http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034285/ Portola isn't the only employer helping its laid-off workers. Other companies offer outplacement services and some even reimburse downsized employees for the cost of getting retrained. The advantage ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034283/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:09:51 -0400 Forbes http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034283/ Google's quantity searches in the United States during July surged 16 percent over the last year, cementing the company's lead at the top of the market, according to statistics released Tuesday by Nie... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034294/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:43 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034294/ in July and monthly home building statistics did little to inspire optimism for the scuffling housing market. The sting of the PPI figure was taken in stride by the market, since oil prices have come ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034284/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:09:54 -0400 Forbes http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034284/ A few years ago, it was trendy and "transparent" for CEOs to have their own blogs. But typically it didn't go this far--then again, Southwest Airlines chief Gary Kelly isn't your average CEO. Kelly http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034287/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:32 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034287/ about how the music industry might fight back against piracy. (Note for commenters: I never advocated for piracy, merely for the music biz to acknowledge that the problem is technically and legally un... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034298/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:26 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034298/ (Credit: Clarion) At the Intel Developer Forum, Clarion launched the production version of ClarionMiND, a portable GPS device with full Internet connectivity that runs on Linux. Clarion showed off a ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034300/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:30 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034300/ Lotus is known for making small, fast cars with Toyota engines, but the company's engineering department gets into all sorts of projects, with the Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle (CIV) being one of the more... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034299/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:27 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034299/ Quicken Beam . You tell it about your financial accounts, like your bank and your credit card, and then it will alert you when balances reach a certain point. You can also send it a text message and i... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034293/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:44 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034293/ was his focus on iterative development and rigorously testing new features before they are rolled out. As I've said, most of the Web 2.0 companies I see focus on building new features more than they d... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034290/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:39 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034290/ Last November, we looked at the Navigon 2100 portable navigation device, and while we were impressed by the feature set and affordable price tag, its sluggish performance ultimately left a bad taste i... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034297/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:25 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034297/ back to decent and now into the ridiculous. Even when running zero applications there are pieces of Apple software that are doing very strange things. The latest issue is that Spotlight is somehow us... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034296/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:24 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034296/ Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at a special event next week. Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and st... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034289/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:36 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034289/ If you're still hanging on to your first-generation iPod Nano, and you've noticed it has a tendency to smoke too much, Apple is willing to replace the unit. The company issued a statement Tuesday aft... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034301/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:31 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034301/ Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at a special event next week. Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and st... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034295/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:41 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034295/ Adobe could port its Creative Suite...to Linux as a shot across Redmond's bow. Then the company should embrace Linux in-house and develop a complete, optimized Linux OS designed to run a high-performa... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034302/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:20 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034302/ WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sen. Barack Obama is expected to announce his running mate as early as Wednesday and perhaps as late as the weekend, reports indicated Tuesday, as the countdown to the Demo... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034305/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:43:09 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034305/ The bigger picture With Monday's losses, the U.S. markets have shown signs of hesitation at significant technical areas. Namely, the S&P and the Dow are struggling with their July peaks, while t... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034304/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:43:08 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17034304/ Chris Crum - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 10:18am. If you don't like it, opt out!Microsoft is tracking your data.But so are Google and Yahoo!, as they are so quick to point out when confronted by the House. A cl... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028053/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:22:28 -0400 Web Pro News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028053/ TEMPE, Ariz. – US Airways announced Tuesday plans to operate nonstop service between its Philadelphia hub and Tel Aviv, Israel, as the carrier moves to expand its international service. The s... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028097/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:32 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028097/ LOS ANGELES – Home prices in the San Francisco Bay area plunged 29.3 percent in July to a 53-month low, a research firm said Tuesday. The median price for new and resale homes and condos stoo... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028110/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:20 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028110/ Microsoft on Tuesday announced a change in its licensing policy to make it easier for businesses that want the ability to shift server software that is running in a virtual machine from one physical m... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028318/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:25 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028318/ he Bureau of Land Management has restored data that had been removed from a Web-based application for electronically submitting and tracking oil and gas permits, which should streamline the permitting... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028300/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:07 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028300/ NEW YORK – A federal court ordered the former president and founder of hedge fund to pay nearly $300 million for defrauding clients. Federal prosecutors in November indicted Paul Eustace, pre... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028095/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:35 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028095/ Each day during the week here at CNET we have a quick meeting to talk about what stories and reviews we think should be promoted on the CNET homepage. Not so surprisingly, computers and TVs are popula... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028317/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:23 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028317/ is the "cuddly way to watch, learn, and play." Is it just me, or does that sound slightly foreboding? In any event, the U.K.-based company iTeddy appears to focus on just the one product: an otherwis... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028308/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:22 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028308/ Elastra's Stuart Charlton responded to my earlier rant about Eucalyptus. It's possible that I was way off on my interpretation and it's also possible that Elastra didn't do all right things in their e... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028314/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:17 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028314/ WASHINGTON – Dozens of energy companies bid Tuesday to explore nearly two million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas, but no offers were made for 90 percent of the acrea... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028093/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:39 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028093/ Google is investing $10 million in "enhanced" geothermal systems--essentially technology for tapping underground heat--which it says is one of most promising forms of renewable energy. Through its ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028324/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:36 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028324/ with the expectation that its natural-language processing technology would give a better understanding of search queries and the content of Web pages. But wait--there's more. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028136/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:13 -0400 CNet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028136/ , 2007 was a banner year for gaming revenues. Online PC gaming revenue led the way in 2007 with $4.8 billion, nearly double the worldwide retail sales numbers for PC games. Digital distribut... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028312/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:12 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028312/ President Bush today said he will designate Jim Williams as acting administrator of the General Services Administration.In June, the president nominated Williams, GSA’s current Federal Acquisiti... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028302/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:10 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028302/ WASHINGTON – The Air Force is on track to select a winner this fall on a disputed $15 billion helicopter deal originally won by Boeing, despite an ongoing review by Pentagon investigators, a sen... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028105/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:26 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028105/ Finally giving up the last vestiges of its exclusive support for the HD DVD format, Microsoft has quietly launched a beta test of Windows-based mastering software for Blu-Ray discs.Microsoft's new Ima... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028070/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:48:20 -0400 Beta News http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028070/ A video game developed by the Army in 2002 as a way to promote awareness about the military has evolved into a practical training tool.The game was recently used to develop a training simulation to te... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028296/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:04 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028296/ NEW ORLEANS – Carnival Cruise Lines will move the Carnival Triumph to New Orleans when the smaller Carnival Fantasy moves to Mobile, Ala., in 2009, officials announced Tuesday. The Triumph, w... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028109/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:19 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028109/ Diet Coke and Mentos will take you to a results page where half of the items are videos on Google's two video sites: YouTube and Google Video. The same goes for millions of other search queries that a... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028315/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:18 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028315/ Fortune 500 ) to investigate the cause, and a defect in the lithiuim-ion battery is suspected in all three cases, he said. The iPods began to overheat while they were being recharged, he said.He decli... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028304/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:39 -0400 Fortune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028304/ “Maybe investors were hoping to shrug off the challenges of high commodity prices and inflation,” said Jack A. Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank. “But now we fin... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028088/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:45 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028088/ The United States ranks third, behind South Korea and Taiwan, in a comparison of national government Web sites and electronic government initiatives, according to a new study of 1,667 national governm... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028298/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:05 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028298/ The Defense Department's inspector general has found that the Interior Department’s assisted acquisition services center has “significantly improved its processes” for handling contr... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028299/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:06 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028299/ SYDNEY, Australia – Australian airline Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd. reported Tuesday a nearly 55 percent drop in annual net profit, hurt by record jet fuel costs. Virgin Blue is Australia's seco... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028108/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:23 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028108/ MODESTO – The Modesto Bee is offering all its full-time employees buyouts, the newspaper's second round of buyout offers this year. The offer was extended Monday to about 200 full-time employ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028087/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:41 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028087/ This comes 20 years after Intel introduced its first flash memory--a 256KB flash chip in 1988. The world's largest chipmaker is announcing the line of solid-state drives at the Intel Developer Forum h... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028328/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:40 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028328/ NEW YORK – The dollar dropped against the euro for the second day in a row as the U.S. government said wholesale inflation shot higher in July. Crude oil futures, meanwhile, jumped back above $1... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028098/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:37 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028098/ The security team behind Google's mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028310/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:07 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028310/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student lender, spent $640,000 lobbying in the second quarter for government help to shore up the troubled student loan market and on legislation re... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028307/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:41 -0400 Fortune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028307/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures closed higher Tuesday, breaking a three-session losing streak that drove prices down by nearly 3%, with the gains fueled by losses in the U.S. dollar a... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028343/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:26:41 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028343/ The General Services Administration and an organization that promotes veteran-owned businesses signed an agreement today to increase the amount of money GSA sends to service-disabled veterans, the age... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028301/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:11 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028301/ KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Former mortgage lender NovaStar Financial Inc.'s sole remaining source of revenue is drying up. In a securities filing late Monday, the Kansas City-based company, which shu... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028113/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:17 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028113/ The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028071/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:48:37 -0400 Intelligent Enterprise http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028071/ Jeff Jaye, a mortgage broker in Northern California, used to rely on homeowners looking to refinance their loans for more than two-thirds of his business. Today, he rarely bothers with those applicati... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028090/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:43 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028090/ Not much to the average consumer – but to the world's largest drugmakers, the information is an invaluable sales tool that they use to track what drugs individual doctors are prescribing all acr... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028099/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:33 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028099/ MILWAUKEE – The debate lives on. For years, Miller Lite drinkers, including notables like comic Rodney Dangerfield and football coach John Madden, bickered back and forth. Some said the drink... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028089/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:44 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028089/ CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's government seized control of cement plants owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after failing to reach a deal on compensation terms, marking President Hugo Chavez's lates... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028103/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:27 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028103/ WASHINGTON – Federal regulators have warned General Electric Co. over lax quality control standards at a plant that makes computer software for medical imaging. The warning letter from the Fo... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028100/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:31 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028100/ NEW YORK – Treasury prices traded mixed Tuesday after government data suggested inflation at the wholesale level is rising, even as the economy continues to weaken. Treasurys tend to attract ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028107/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:24 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028107/ "We believe the management wants to leave its mortgage troubles behind and restore confidence, which it can best accomplish by reducing its higher-risk credit exposure," wrote the analysts, who rate L... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028342/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:26:35 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028342/ The News.com team brings you this snappy podcast every weekday, covering everything from privacy to processors, iPods to Intel. Charlie Cooper, Leslie Katz, Erica Ogg, and Jennifer Guevin cover the to... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028309/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:05 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028309/ reported a profit that rose over last year and beat analysts' forecasts by 3 cents a share on strong international sales in its notebook computer and printer businesses. Revenue also topped expectatio... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028295/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:08:12 -0400 CNBC http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028295/ KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Valley Authority directors are considering budget proposals that could hike electric rates sharply for millions of consumers across the agency's seven-state region. ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028112/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:18 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028112/ Last modified:August 19, 2008, 1:20 PM PDT The Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco gives the chipmaker the chance to tout its direction for the months ahead. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028330/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:44 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028330/ WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday the next round of high-level talks with China will focus on energy and environmental issues, and efforts to agree on an investment trea... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028102/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:29 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028102/ Donald and Jasmine discuss the recently-announced sixth-generation lineup of Archos portable media players, now portable media tablets. Plus, talk of Internet radio death knells and another way you ca... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028313/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:15 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028313/ Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in the government's auction to the lowest levels in two weeks. The Treasury Department auctioned $28 billion in three-month bills at a discount ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028114/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:16 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028114/ Email Prioritizer uses various algorithms to automatically identify the importance or urgency of e-mail messages delivered into an Outlook 2007 in-box. http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028084/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:19:44 -0400 TechWeb http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028084/ from Long Island City, New York, to Montreal, Quebec: use GPS. Or so I figured, as one member of a three-person team equipped with a MacBook, an EVDO card, a GPS navigator, a backup GPS navigator, an... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028323/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:39 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028323/ . That's triple the revenue that this service generates today. The research group said that ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive premium mobile content category for wireless opera... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028333/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028333/ The Comptroller of the Currency has published a request for information that aims to improve connectivity, performance and user experiences for more than 1,200 mobile bank examiners.The comptroller al... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028297/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:04 -0400 FCW http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028297/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. increased its share of the U.S. online search market by 16% from the year-earlier period to 60.2% in July, as rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. each saw ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028063/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:52:10 -0400 Market Watch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028063/ August 19, 2008 (Network World) Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will eliminate a licensing restriction that prevented customers from moving virtualized applications to a different server more t... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028079/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:37:59 -0400 Computerworld http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028079/ Zecco and TradeKing, which tout themselves as among the first brokerages to offer online social networking, are now adding functions that go beyond the typical discussion board. Traders at both compan... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028106/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:25 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028106/ NEW YORK – As if the housing market wasn't scary enough, the record-setting surge in foreclosures could be distorting some of the closely watched housing data used to gauge the market's health. ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028094/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:34 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028094/ If you've used a credit card reader in Ireland recently you may want to call your credit card company and monitor your account. Scammers posing as bank workers replaced credit card readers in retail ... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028321/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:32 -0400 Cnet http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028321/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures climbed Tuesday, recovering from an earlier slide to close with a gain of more than $11 an ounce, with the metal finding support from strength in oil prices... http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028339/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:26:36 -0400 CBS Marketwatch http://story.stlouisstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6034630751577834/id/17028339/