Word: carriers
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...upload any application to the Android Market without its review. Sure that means some duds will make it in, but it will also allow a much more open and democratic way for favorites to evolve. Perhaps more significant, users will not be limited to a single phone or carrier for long. While T-Mobile's HTC Dream will be the first phone to run Android, Google is inviting all carriers to develop handsets for the platform. Expect to see other compatible devices early next year...
...Government took over AIG? We thought so. First things first: AIG's insurance subsidiaries are solvent and continuing to pay claims. If--and this is a big if--individual insurance subsidiaries run into trouble, a state regulator will step in. That regulator might try to move policies to another carrier--"The insurance industry has a pretty good track record of taking care of itself," says Atlanta-based wealth manager Chris Dardaman--though new insurers may be allowed to adjust policy terms. If push really comes to shove and the subsidiary liquidates, you are still protected in different ways, depending...
...month after an accounting scandal made headlines, the telecommunications company, once the second largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy. Several WorldCom executives subsequently pleaded guilty to fraud charges, with CEO Bernard Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison. The company emerged from bankruptcy...
...Evacuations intensified Saturday morning after coastal parishes issued mandatory evacuation orders. New Orleans began its new city-assisted evacuation program at 8 a.m. Saturday. Residents who had no other means to get out of the city were allowed to bring one bag and a pet in a carrier to various locations where they could board city buses that took them to the Union Passenger Terminal, the city's bus and train station. Officials worked all night to process residents there, and by Sunday morning, the city had processed more than 10,000 residents to get out by bus or train...
...years after his return, McCain was posted to Washington as a Navy liaison on Capitol Hill, a political job his Beltway-connected father had performed with flair. Still a rebel by nature, McCain used his connections to lead a rearguard effort to save a $2 billion aircraft carrier from President Jimmy Carter's budget ax, even though McCain was supposed to be representing Carter on the Hill. By 1980, he wanted to stop advising members of Congress and start becoming...