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PCB chief insists: We're ready

Pakistan officials have insisted they will host next month's Champions Trophy as scheduled despite concerns over security.

It's not about the money, insists Harmison

England bowler Steve Harmison has denied claims that money was the main reason behind his return to the England one-day international team.

Twenty20 cash will up the pressure on England, insists former skipper Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has raised the stakes higher still for his cash-hunting England colleagues ahead of their £10million match in Antigua next month.

Chappell has shut India file

GREG CHAPPELL insists he possesses no classified information about the Indian team, and would not hand it over to his new employer if he did.

Harbhajan to cut bad boy act as Aussies promise to play nice

Brett Lee insists the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series won’t be a repeat of this year’s controversial ‘Bollyline’ tour, as India’s Harbhajan Singh promised to cut out the “bad boy crap� that has dogged his career.

No pressure on oldies

Captain Anil Kumble insists India's ageing middle-order is under no additional pressure ahead of the Border-Gavaskar series with Australia.

Big bucks not on Harmison's mind

England paceman Steve Harmison insists his one-day international return was not motivated by the prospect of playing in the lucrative Stanford Super Series.

Never say never: Warne

Spin legend Shane Warne insists he has no inclination to return to international cricket but has learnt "never to say never".

Police deny phone taps on journalists

QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson insists only one journalist is being investigated for receiving leaked information from police ranks.

Photokina 2008: Leica chief spells out passion-fuelled 'mission'

Leica's CEO Andreas Kaufmann insists that the firm is on the up and is firmly committed to avoiding the 'strategic mistakes' of the past.

CRICKET: Fighting back with Freddie - Flintoff on his return to the big time

RUGBY UNION: Wasps coach McGeechan insists: I'm delighted Lewsey floored Cipriani - it shows we still pack a punch

Virgin at 105

Clara Meadmore says she decided as a child never to wed or have sex - and insists she has never missed it.

Ramos: I'm not quitting Spurs

Reports in the press on Sunday had suggested that Ramos wanted to return to Spain, but he insists that he is focused on turning around the fortunes of Spurs.

Sony defends PS3 and PSP sales

DESPITE CLAIMS that Sony is losing the console war peddling its highly-priced PS3, the games console maker insists it is making a bob or two.

Collingwood: 5-0 won't happen

England batsman Paul Collingwood has shrugged off Shane Warne's prediction of an Australia whitewash in the Ashes and insists the tourists could be in for a shock.

Pietersens confidence is misguided, says Clark

Stuart Clark, the Australia fast bowler, has welcomed the bold approach taken by Kevin Pietersen to next year’s Ashes series, but insists the new England captain’s confidence is misguided.

Open Source Licenses For Academic Work?

An anonymous reader writes "We're in the process of submitting a scientific paper describing some techniques for data analysis. We'll be releasing the associated code, so we're faced with choosing an appropriate license. My supervisor insists there should be a citation clause, requiring any published article that uses results of the software to cite our paper. Of course, ideally, free software shouldn't have such encumbrances, and I initially tried to talk him out of it. However, in academia, the issue of attribution and citation is very important. Also, it is not a restriction on use of the software per se, only on publication of results. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any such license. So I wondered: what do other academic Slashdotters do?"

Communacopia: Scripps Interactive: Home And Garden Ads Holding Up; Shopzilla Arb Getting Squeezed

imageIt’s really quite something: Of all the cable players, you’d think home-heavy Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) (parent of HGTV and Food Network, among others) would be the most exposed to the housing meltdown. But CEO Kenneth Lowe insists things are holding up; at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, he acknowledged some spotty weakness here and there, but nothing to suggest that the floor was falling out of the business: “We really haven’t seen any endemic softening with respect to HGTV or Food.� He did suggest that certain advertisers, like a Home Depot, might be pulling up. But his basic line was that strong brands and continued solid ratings are keeping things afloat.

Sony: Gran Turismo still coming to PSP

I know, I know, we've heard it all before. Gran Turismo was supposed to have come to the PlayStation Portable quite some time ago, but we've yet to see anything about the game. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, however, still insists that the portable racer is coming.

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