The Texas Rangers found their home run stroke to beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2 in Game Three of the World Series Saturday and draw within 2-1 in the best-of-seven showdown. After dropping the opening two games in San Francisco, the second by a humbling 9-0 score, Texas regained their swagger in a happy homecoming [...]
A suspected suicide bomber wounded 32 people in an attack targeting Turkish police in Istanbul’s main square on Sunday. No organization has claimed responsibility, officials said, though the city has been targeted in the past by Kurdish separatist militants and al Qaeda, as well as militants from Turkey’s far-left. “It was a suicide bomb and [...]
The company’s blowout quarter came from nearly every division, but taking over the top spot in the video game world was its most surprising statement. Despite a corporate restructuring, criticism that it’s failing to innovate in certain sectors, the departure of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and analysts downgrading its stock, Microsoft (MSFT) trumpeted a [...]
Toyota secretly bought back from U.S. consumers vehicles it found with speed-control defects as part of a strategy to hide unintended-acceleration problems from safety regulators and the public, a revised lawsuit claims. The repurchase transactions included strict confidentiality agreements barring consumers from disclosing the problem to anyone and from suing the automaker, according to the [...]
Microsoft reported a greater-than-expected 51 percent jump in quarterly profit Thursday, helped by higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software and the launch of the latest blockbuster Halo video game. Its shares, down 14 percent so far this year, rose 1.6 percent in after-hours trading. The world’s largest software company posted a fiscal [...]
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into Google for allegedly violating the country’s privacy laws through the data collected for the Internet company’s Street View service, newspapers reported Thursday. The investigation, being handled by Rome public prosecutor Eugenio Albamonte, was opened at the request of the national Privacy Authority and on the basis of information [...]
Pressure to implement IPv6 is coming from both public and private sectors. “Based on these statistics, we can look out into the future and say pretty much for sure these are going to go away within the next 10 to 12 months, at least by the end of next year,” said Guy Snyder, secure communications [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – American unmanned planes fired two missiles at a house in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border on Thursday, killing seven alleged militants, the latest in a barrage of such attacks, intelligence officials said. The strike in North Waziristan was the third attack there in the past 24 hours. The [...]
Chrysler, the once-bankrupt U.S. automaker that received billions in government aid last year, will soon get new federal loans to help retool factories to make more fuel efficient vehicles, according to sources familiar with the matter. The timing of the Energy Department award to Chrysler is fluid, but sources with knowledge of the financing and [...]
Several months ago, we wrote about a virtual receptionist that can answer and route calls, and even set appointments. This concept is being taken to the next level with the “roboceptionist,” a computerized receptionist that is bilingual and sensitive to cultural nuance. Developed by researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) and Carnegie Mellon University, [...]
A suspected serial shooter is keeping a city in southern Sweden on edge. Police say as many as 15 shootings in Malmo over the last year may be linked to a single perpetrator who is targeting immigrants living in the city. Investigators have no suspects. The shootings have all been well planned, under the protection [...]
A controversial call that set up a Pittsburgh Steelers victory on Sunday will be the newest topic for fans and experts to debate one week after devastating hits grabbed headlines and forced the NFL to change its rules. The ruling helped the Steelers to a 23-22 over the Miami Dolphins, whose home woes this season [...]