Google (Web promotion) and Comcast vie for AOL stake, reports say Macworld -

Google (Web promotion) and Comcast vie for AOL stake, reports say Macworld -

Google and Comcast vie for AOL stake, reports say
Macworld - 2 hours ago By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service. First it was Microsoft Corp., now it�s Google Inc. and Comcast Corp.: It seems everyone wants a piece of America Online Inc. (AOL). Fresh rumors surfaced on Thursday of

Taikonauts set Chinese space record
PhysOrg.com - 4 hours ago Taikonauts Nie Haisheng, celebrating his 41st birthday Thursday, and Fei Junlong, carried out experiments concerning the spacecraft's stability, the BBC reported. By noon China time Thursday Shenzhou VI had

Refco Unit Halts Withdrawals, Cash Isn't Sufficient (Update6)
Bloomberg - 53 minutes ago Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Refco Inc., reeling from the disclosure that its chief executive officer hid unpaid debts, blocked client withdrawals from a unit that doesn't have enough cash to stay in business. Refco

Yahoo!, MSN To Mesh IM Networks
Mediapost.com - 10 hours ago by Shankar Gupta, Thursday, Oct 13, 2005 6:00 AM EST. BY THE SECOND QUARTER OF next year, MSN Messenger users and IM Yahoo! Messenger users will be able to seamlessly send each other messages, as part of a

Samsung Electronics to Pay $300 Mln for Price-Fixing (Update2)
Bloomberg - 53 minutes ago Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co. agreed to pay $300 million, the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in US history, to settle charges it took part in a global scheme to fix the price of computer

Islamic Militants Raid Nalchik, 24 Dead
The Moscow Times - 38 minutes ago By Nabi Abdullaev. Scores of armed Islamist militants carried out near-simultaneous attacks on police, security and military sites in the Kabardino-Balkaria capital of Nalchik on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 servicemen and 12 residents.

Al-Qaeda disowns 'fake letter'
BBC News - 2 hours ago A statement claiming to be by al-Qaeda in Iraq has rejected as a fake a letter allegedly written by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command. US intelligence published the letter in full, saying