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...largest cellular carrier in the United States, could help Microsoft's efforts to become a significant presence in the mobile software market. Microsoft's problem is that there is no reason to believe that it, or any other company, will be able to launch a phone that will break the chokehold that the Blackberry and iPhone have. Samsung has tried with its Instinct model, and Google (GOOG) provides its Android software for a handset sold by T-Mobile, the No.4 U.S. carrier. The Samsung and Google-powered products have barely made a dent in the market share of the Apple...
...According to The Wall Street Journal, Citi is asking to lift "pay restrictions that could break apart its legendary energy-trading unit." If the government turns the request down, it is indeed likely that many of these people will leave for hedge funds, start their own businesses, of join banks based outside the U.S. The bank is not making an idle statement. If critical people leave, so does critical income. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...America. Other highly polluted areas, such as the tri-state New York-Connecticut-New Jersey region and the Chicago area, also made it into the top 25 most air-polluted places. The charts - categorized by short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and year-round ozone pollution - break down how many people afflicted by illnesses such as asthma and emphysema live in regions with the poorest air quality...
...With hordes of undergrads returning from spring-break trips across the border, campus health staffers are planning for the worst. By canceling summer programs in Mexico and stockpiling supplies, they're trying to stop outbreaks before they start - and at the same time attempting to reassure jittery students. At Columbia University in New York City - where a graduate student on Sunday received a diagnosis of Type A influenza, which has been linked to swine flu - the assistant vice president for health services, Dr. Samuel Seward, sent an e-mail to students urging them to cover their mouths when they sneeze...
Instead of continuing this loveless marriage, the two papers ought to simply file for divorce. And they should do so the Massachusetts way: no fault, just a clean break...