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...devices' distinctive security features, such as encrypted e-mail and the ability for corporate IT departments to remotely erase downloaded messages in case of loss or theft. Once a niche player in the handheld market, BlackBerry, as Lazaridis puts it, "is now standard-issue everywhere." As of August, nearly twice as many people in the U.S. owned a BlackBerry Pearl 8100 or 8130 - two devices that are also geared more toward consumers than business users - than an iPhone 3G, according to M:Metrics...
...lenders and anyone else who depends on credit, these are worrisome times. Even the $700 billion bailout that President Bush signed last week to buy Wall Street's bad mortgage-backed debt was not enough to calm credit jitters. Consumer borrowing fell at an annual rate of 3.7% in August, the first decline in over a decade, the Federal Reserve reported yesterday. In a surprise coordinated move with central banks around the world, the Fed sliced interest by half a point on Wednesday morning before the markets opened...
...Married Meredith Lynn Auld August 17, 1962; they have three daughters...
...said a leader of Thailand's anti-government protest movement, the "final battle." On one side, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a hodgepodge group of demonstrators that has occupied Government House, Thailand's seat of power, since late August, forcing newly elected Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to work out of the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airport. Pitted against the PAD are those associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006. On the evening of Oct. 6, members of the PAD swarmed the streets around parliament in what they...
...firm, the price for products used primarily in construction have fallen to less than $590 per ton, down almost 20% in just four months, forcing some companies into the red in what had been a booming industry. Baosteel, one of China's largest steelmakers, has cut prices twice since August, and its CEO is glum: The era of rapid growth for China's steel industry "will soon be remembered as history," says Xu Lejiang...