Reuters - U.S. producer prices fell a surprisingly steep 1.4 percent last month, the biggest drop in nearly three years, as energy and food costs tumbled but other prices rose 0.3 percent in a sign of bubbling price pressures, a government report showed on Tuesday.

USATODAY.com - Oil companies and U.S. industries have been aching for years to get at the billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas sitting off the shores of the USA.

AP - Prada Group announced Friday it has signed an agreement with Link Theory Holdings Co. Ltd. for the sale of the Helmut Lang label, part of the Italian fashion house's plan to focus on its core brands.

Reuters - Iran on Thursday offered more access to U.N. inspectors if their watchdog agency, not the U.N. Security Council, dealt with its nuclear dispute with the West.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Red Hat Inc. says Tuesday it is integrating Xen virtualization technologies into the latest version of its Linux operating system. The Linux vendor will offer a preview of these virtualization technologies when it launches Fedora Core 5 later this...

NewsFactor - A recent virus-definition update from security firm McAfee incorrectly flagged several applications as viruses, even removing the core Microsoft Excel executable from some users' computers.

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Reuters - Action sports retailer Quiksilver Inc. said on Thursday that first-quarter net profit rose, saying core business in U.S. and Europe was strong.

PC World - The upcoming X100 will feature Intel's Core Duo chips and Windows XP.

AP - PPR SA said Thursday its net profit nearly halved in 2005 as it shed noncore businesses, transforming itself from a diversified conglomerate to a luxury retail group focused on its Gucci fashion house.

NewsFactor - Intel has lifted the lid on the company's next-generation, dual-core chips that promise to strike a balance between higher processing speed and energy efficiency in applications ranging from mobile hardware to server systems.

Macworld.com - Still think the Mac mini’s not a good value compared to budget PCs? If you want to compare Apples to, well, apples, you might want to have a look at Aopen’s new MiniPC, once it’s unveiled tomorrow at the Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco, Calif.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has detailed how its forthcoming Vista OS will appear, and the six-pronged view is raising the concern of enterprise IT managers. When it is released later this year, Vista will have six core editions: four aimed at consumers and two designed for the enterprise.

NewsFactor - Long ago, desktop computers sported dual-core processors that could handle multitasking and media-encoding much more effectively than their single-core counterparts. Today, notebooks are getting the same boost with Intel's first dual-core chip for portables: the Core Duo.

AP - The Indianapolis Colts offered Pro Bowl linebacker Cato June and sack leader Robert Mathis one-year tenders Thursday in an effort to keep the core of their improved defense intact next season.

AP - Luxury goods company LVMH SA said Thursday that its net profit jumped 21 percent last year thanks to a strong second half in its core wine and spirits and leather products divisions in the United States and Asia.

AFP - Deutsche Telekom, Europe's biggest telecommunications group, said that 2005 earnings had met expectations, as the robust performance of its mobile operations helped offset weakness in its core fixed-line business.

Reuters - Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) reported a 10 percent rise in fourth-quarter core earnings on Thursday, driven by its mobile phone business, and proposed a 16 percent increase in its dividend payout.

Reuters - Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday said it expected to post a loss from its core auto operations in 2006 and was considering taking a charge in the current quarter to cover some of its planned cuts in production jobs.

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter San Francisco, CA (AHN) - In a highly anticipated announcement, Apple Computer says Tuesday it is launching a Mac Mini that will use Intel's single-core Intel Core Solo Chip. Apple CEO Steve Jobs says, "We've got some fun things to introduce...