News Briefing: NASA postpones shuttle launch

NASA postpones shuttle launch
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006

NASA postpones Atlantis launch again
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NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis by another day after
discovering problems with a fuel cell early Wednesday. The space agency
planned to further examine the problem and try again Thursday.

Mexican election is decided; everything else still up in air
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Mexico's electoral court on Tuesday certified conservative Felipe
Caldern as
the nation's next president after two months of recounts and allegations
of fraud.

Intel expands job cuts to trim $3B in costs
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No. 1 chipmaker Intel said Tuesday that it is cutting 10,500 jobs, about
10%
of its staff, to help save $3 billion a year. By mid-2007, Intel said,
it will
have about 92,000 employees, down from 102,500 at the end of its most
recent quarter in June.

Bud.TV set to tap beer drinkers on the Web
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Top U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch (BUD) will launch its own Web
entertainment network, Bud.TV, in February. The seven-channel operation,
costing an
estimated $30 million to start, is an attempt to develop a new way to
reach consumers 21 to 27.

Couric offers solid debut
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It's no big news that Katie Couric provokes strong reactions. That
means, in part, that whatever you thought of Couric after last night's
CBS Evening News is probably exactly what you thought before
particularly if you came away loving or hating her.