• Market demand is expected to increase at the end of this year and into next year due to the introduction of phones using the new WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which allows Internet content to be tailored for display on mobile telephones, pagers and other wireless devices, as well as of devices which incorporate EPOC, the operating system for wireless devices from the Symbian joint venture.

    CNN: Handheld use to soar in Europe

  • There is a sort of partisanship that is useful, indeed essential, to the government of democracies: the friction of different, but considered, points of view, as a result of which problems are solved and excesses kept in check.

    ECONOMIST: Partisanship has no place in the trial of a president

  • Microsoft thought it was in the clear since the company had licensed the MP3 codec from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute (members of which are pictured above), which bills itself as "the birthplace of MP3", but as the New York Times writes today there are a bunch of companies which claim to have had at least something to do with creating the codec.

    ENGADGET: Fight over who owns MP3 gets messier and messier

  • In the late nineteen-nineties, she began travelling throughout Minnesota, delivering lectures in churches, and writing pamphlets, on the perils of a federal education law known as School to Work, which supported vocational training, and a Minnesota education law known as Profile of Learning, which set state education standards.

    NEWYORKER: Leap of Faith

  • In fact, Morningstar categorizes more than 60 municipal bond mutual funds as intermediate, of which several use one of the BarCap Municipal intermediate indices or similar index as a performance benchmark.

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  • And he then goes on to list a set of priorities, such as an assessment of which of Aviva's businesses can "generate superior returns over the cycle", which are all about creating the conditions for a rise in the company's share price.

    BBC: Is it curtains for big executive pay?

  • Each signals information including what bone was broken, as well as which side of the body it was on.

    WSJ: New Medical Codes Provide Precision

  • Starbucks is feeling the pressure of increasing coffee prices, as a result of which it may have to increase prices further.

    FORBES: Java Drinkers Kick The Seattle Habit If Starbucks Keeps Hiking Prices

  • It followed the election of Mr Perry as leader of the Labour group which Mr Idaikkadar said was an unfair challenge to his position as leader of the council.

    BBC: Harrow Council left with no party in control amid racism row

  • This creates a mismatch between future output (which will increase as a result of higher investment) and future spending (which will fall as a result of lower saving today).

    ECONOMIST: The causes of booms and busts

  • It also kept 126 samples registered as category two, which are defined as "samples of human tissue which are not a significant part of the body - for example small tissue samples, blocks, slides, etc".

    BBC: Further body parts kept by Avon and Somerset Police

  • Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made.

    ENGADGET: ViaSat-1 sends its first words through the stratosphere to cooing stateside relatives

  • The fall has been triggered by concerns over future growth of the firm, not least due to the success of rivals such as Samsung which have increased their share of the smartphone and tablet PC markets, which Apple used to dominate.

    BBC: Apple taps markets for record $17bn funding

  • This is as true of the Tories as it is of Labour, which is why neither side makes a fuss about it.

    ECONOMIST: Who speaks for the Palin constituency in Britain?

  • Approximately 60 to 80 percent of marine debris is plastic, the majority of which is as a result of our mindless use of one-life plastics, 60 percent of which is comprised of plastic bags, Styrofoam (used for take away foods), drinks bottles and their caps.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Dr Brady thinks that the growing of rubber in the Aztec empire was probably much more extensive than had previously been thought, as was the production of balls, which may have served as the store of value for an entire economic system.

    ECONOMIST: Sports anthropology

  • But the rules have to address two issues: individuals' financial incentives, and those of the firm as a whole, of which the most important may be the non-audit services offered by auditors to their clients.

    ECONOMIST: Accountancy

  • The big Hollywood studios are alarmed at the potential for "file-sharing" - recording programmes and then sending them to friends with PVRs - which they see as a form of piracy which damages the interests of rights holders.

    BBC: Digital videos hard to shift

  • Ballmer is probably best running a sales organization for an enterprise company and would be best as a CEO of a firm which had that as its primary focus, but I think he would be happier as an SVP of sales.

    FORBES: Connect

  • From the great number of complaints which we have heard respecting the operation of the Income Tax as to the mode in which the profits of trades and professions under Schedule D are determined, we have reason to believe that a provision in the act, very important to the mercantile community, has been quite overlooked, or is little known.

    ECONOMIST: The income tax

  • Its experience mirrors those of other established Asian lenders, most of which started as conduits of funds for early industrialization and infrastructure.

    CNN: The Asiaweek Financial 500

  • Their main aim is to make sure that independent financial advisers charge up-front fees for their work and advice, rather than taking an annual cut of their clients funds as regular commission, of which the client may be only dimly aware.

    BBC: Alliance Trust raises Isa charges by 60%

  • Uncontrolled borrowing tends to lead to a lot of wasted investment - which increases the prospects of bad debts - as well as the risk of higher inflation, both of which China needs to keep in check.

    BBC: China economy: Experts react to growth data

  • Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study.

    BBC: Minister rejects concerns over AS-level changes

  • Some developers are now looking to generate energy by burning straw, which the UK has an abundant supply of and which, as a by-product of agricultural crops, does not have an impact on the food verses fuel debate currently engulfing the biofuel industry.

    BBC: Time to encourage biomass growth

  • The complex deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, is structured as a recapitalization of MetroPCS, which will be the surviving company, keep its stock listing, but take on the T-Mobile name.

    FORBES: MetroPCS Agrees To Deal With T-Mobile In Reverse Merger

  • Its gains included the town of Zalambessa, which it regards as part of its territory, and the western town of Barentu, from which it has since withdrawn.

    BBC: Calls for restraint after Horn fighting

  • Republicans were forced to concede on their steadfast opposition to increased taxes by agreeing in early January to higher rates on top income earners as part of a deal to avoid some of the harshest impacts of what was known as the fiscal cliff, which included the forced spending cuts of sequestration as well as automatic tax hikes.

    CNN: Obama, Republicans clash on forced spending cuts

  • These revolutions can be triggered by technological breakthroughs, such as the construction of the first telescope (which overthrew the Aristotelian idea that heavenly bodies are perfect and unchanging) and by conceptual breakthroughs such as the invention of calculus (which allowed the laws of motion to be formulated).

    ECONOMIST: The scientific method

  • Helen Sharman flew to the Mir space station in 1991 as part of a venture known as Project Juno, which was organised with the help of a number of British companies.

    BBC: Honour given to 'UK astronauts'

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