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...carriers are very concerned that messaging isn't generating the revenue it has in the past," remarks IDC analyst Richard Murphy. "Consumers are becoming more savvy, buying just the buckets they need. Many are signing up for unlimited plans, which will only drive down revenues more...
...eight home games will be broadcast in the hard-hit region (by comparison, only nine of the NFL's 256 regular-season games last year were blacked out). "My worry is that if the NFL doesn't look at changing the rule, we're losing a fan base," says Richard Clark, president of the Jacksonville City Council. "I would like to think they would really, really look at those communities which are hardest hit and have an honest discussion about it, as opposed to saying this is the way we've always done things." (See the top 10 things...
...Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas, said he thought the Treasury Department had overstepped its authority when it used TARP funds to help the auto companies. Richard Neiman, who is the superintendent of the New York State Banking Department, said it looked like the administration was unlikely to meet its goal of modifying as many as 3 million mortgages...
...deal anytime a terrorist manages to get a bomb onto a plane. But if airline security had to fail, at least it failed for Richard Reid. The al-Qaeda operative concealed a bomb in his shoe on a 2001 transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami. But once onboard, the terrorist proved utterly unable to get his shoe to ignite, attracting the attention of flight attendants who saw him repeatedly muttering while attempting to light matches. After noticing a wire running from his shoes, passengers doused Reid, tied him up and sedated him for the rest of the flight...
...everyone is worried. Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, says tariffs in Asia have already come down so significantly that the additional benefits of FTAs don't give Asian firms that much of an edge over foreign rivals. Some analysts also believe political and economic rivalries place high hurdles in the path of a true Asia trade bloc. "The notion that there is going to be a Fortress Asia is really not correct," says Vinod Aggarwal, director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center at the University of California, Berkeley...