November 4, 2002

ABC News Russia Launches Crackdown on Rebels ABC News - VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia Nov. 4 Russia troops rounded up Chechen rebel suspects and beefed up security across the breakaway republic in the Caucasus on Monday. 10:07:28 PM

Launch Yahoo ' The Osbournes ' Calling It Quits Launch Yahoo - Sharon Osbourne reveals on a 20/20 segment airing Wednesday (November 6) that the clan is calling it quits after the new season. Osbourne sites the around-the-clock presence of cameras and changes in the family's lifestyle as reasons for the pull-out. 10:05:53 PM

IBM: Still Thinking Ahead PC World - IBM has donned its thinking cap, revamping its PC line ranging from desktops to services under a new ThinkVantage Technologies division that focuses on helping customers quash the costs of managing and maintaining IBM PCs. The emphasis on PCs that are easier and cheaper to manage, not horsepower. 10:03:09 PM

Sniper Suspect Appears Before Judge Austin American Statesman - The 17-year-old sniper suspect appeared before a federal judge for a closed juvenile hearing Monday as investigators looked into whether two more shootings are linked to a spree that left 10 dead. 10:01:00 PM

Braid virus winds its way through e-mail. CNET News - Although the latest mass-mailing computer virus is off to a slow start, antivirus companies say it shares some attributes with the widely spread Klez family of viruses. More on the BRAID VIRUS or W32.Brid.A @mm on Sarc.com 4:05:49 PM

Report: Top al-Qaida suspect killed MSNBC - He is suspected of involvement in the October, 2000, suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen’s Aden harbor that killed 17 US sailors. Six al-Qaida suspects were killed, including a top operative of Osama bin Laden, when their car was blasted with a Hellfire missile fired from a CIA-operated drone in northwest Yemen, U.S. officials told NBC News. 432 Virgins Await. 3:18:17 PM

Posh Spice Kidnapping Foiled Rolling Stone - Police in London arrested nine people in a series of raids this weekend, thwarting an apparent attempt to kidnap Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, one of the five original Spice Girls and the wife of British soccer star David Beckham. 3:02:27 PM

Middle East Online Israel suicide bomber kills one after Hamas death ABC Online - A suicide bomber in Israel has killed at least one other person, and left about 20 people wounded. The blast has come just hours after the killing of a senior Hamas leader in the West Bank city of Nablus. 3:00:54 PM

Detroit News Extreme Surgery For Obese Kids? CBS News - An operation that dramatically shrinks the size of the stomach to help people lose weight, once done only on adults, is gaining in popularity for children. But questions abound about the procedure's safety and advisability for youngsters. 12:31:46 PM

Microsoft looks beyond the court BBC - In the same week that Microsoft's legal battle with the US Department of Justice ends, the software giant is due to unveil hardware that is partly a product of the time when it was at its most arrogant.   12:27:04 PM

AOL aims for enterprise IM market InfoWorld - FOLLOWING MONTHS OF speculation, America Online (AOL) is expected to announce a new instant messaging (IM) product for business users Monday, which banks on the success of its wildly popular consumer IM service, AIM. 10:07:31 AM

Intel doubles cache on new Xeons ZDNet - Intel released three new Xeon chips for four- and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems. 10:04:19 AM