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International Business Machines Corp., worried the United States is losing its competitive edge, will financially back employees who want to leave the company to become math and science teachers.

United Press International The unofficial New Orleans death toll from Hurricane Katrina stood at 558 Friday.

United Press International Two employees and two customers at an Idaho restaurant split a $100,000 reward Thursday for helping to save Shasta Groene from her alleged kidnapper.

"Elisa has no plans to abandon public telephone business" Public payphones will gradually become history in Finland, as mobile phones have taken over the telecommunications market.2.7

College students who hope to get a great- paying job when they graduate should consider information technology careers, University of Texas at El Paso students were told at a seminar this week.2.7

Whitepaper: Minimize Vulnerabilities and Maximize Efficiency When you Centrally Manage and Consistently Execute IT Security.2.7

MARKET RESEARCH firm In-Stat said that IBM will deliver what it calls three "blockbuster" presentations at its Fall Processor Forum.2.7

ACS Launches New FreightForm EXPRESS Product 9/16/2005 Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, has launched FreightForm EXPRESS, a new ...2.7

IBM Corp is developing a smart-switch based storage virtualization tool that will rival both EMC Corp's forthcoming Invista product and its own SVC software, according to multiple sources.2.9

Intelagents Inc. of Chicago and GMV, S.A. , of Madrid jointly announce a partnership to create a European platform to offer national and international integrated security solutions to governments, private ...2.7

A Duke University study indicates adolescents and young adults with alcohol-use disorders have a smaller prefrontal cortex.2.7

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson bestowed an honorary degree upon IBM Corp.3.1

BOSTON - IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. unwrapped a joint worldwide initiative to try to speed up the development and adoption of Linux-based applications Friday.2.7

Celanese Chemicals will increase the price on the following Acetyl products in Asia effective October 1, 2005, or as contracts allow.2.7

Free technical resources to help you enable your apps for IBM Cloudscape, DB2 UDB, or Informix Dynamic Server.2.7

NEWS & TRENDS Commodity RF ICs may ride to unheard-of frequencies on the strength of a new SiGe BiCMOS process from IBM Corp.2.7

United Press International The western edge of slow-moving Hurricane Ophelia pelted the North Carolina coast midday Thursday with 85 mph winds, rain and battering waves.2.9

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sep 15, 2005 -- Although he's in jail, Jennifer Aniston has made triple sure a homeless man who walked into her Malibu, Calif., home will not be back any time soon.2.7

Despite societal changes over the half-century since its original publication, Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" is no less disturbing.3.1

Silicon Valley visionary Vinod Khosla is leaving Qwest's board. Khosla, who had served as a Qwest director for seven years, is best known as a partner with venture capital shop Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ...2.7

Internap Network Services Corporation , a leading provider of performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, today announced that Gregory A. Peters, president and chief executive officer, Internap, will ...2.7

Alstom IT has been chosen to distribute Red Hat's Linux software alongside existing supplier, Ingram Micro.2.7

Bruce Cleveland, who runs Siebel's product group, fired off a caustic letter to the world countering salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's abrasive comments about the Oracle/Siebel mating being the deathnell for ...3.1

BellSouth Chief Executive Officer Duane Ackerman will make an investor presentation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York City, New York on Thursday, Sept.4.1

Find out how an integrated IT mobility strategy can deliver ROI, productivity improvements, better employee performance, improved responsiveness and better utilisation of IT investments.2.9

EU hails formal start of peace pact in Indonesia's Aceh First posted 10:56pm Sept 15, 2005 Agence France-Presse LONDON--The European Union on Thursday hailed the formal start of a peace deal to end almost 30 ...2.7

About 80 percent of Raytheon Technical Services Guam employees work 40 hours a week or more, according to Raytheon Guam's public affairs office.

Unmanned, small aircraft were being used this week to search for survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the first domestic use of such surveillance vehicles.2.7

Suicide bombers strike Baghdad, killing 23 First posted 10:58pm Sept 15, 2005 By Ammar Karim Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD--Suicide bombers struck Baghdad for the second day Thursday, killing at least 23 people, ...

New certification program intended to give customers confidence in integration of SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure and device management solutions Atlanta — September 15, 2005 — Enterprise data collection ...2.7

BETHESDA, Md. - Sept. 13, 2005 - The new Games-on-Demand broadband service from Verizon Communications will be powered by Exent Technologies, the global market leader in the secure digital delivery of games.2.7

Severe acute respiratory syndrome is a disease of the respiratory tract and now scientists say they've found SARS can also infiltrate brain tissue.2.7

United Press International Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has followed President George Bush and accepted blame for failures in planning for and reacting to Hurricane Katrina.3.6

Largest Private Cos. People World's Richest People 100 Top Celebrities 400 Richest Americans Best Paid CEOs Places Best Places Personal Finance Estate Planning Funds Philanthropy Retirement Strategies Taxes ...2.7

Italian researchers say they've determined, for the first time, a less-virulent strain of avian influenza virus might spread from poultry to humans.2.7