"If I were a plan participant and I was planning to take a lump sum, I would pick up the phone and call H-R and ask about the plan funding status, " says Andrew Wozniak, an actuary at BNY Mellon Asset Management, which manages investments for dozens of large company pension plans.

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He lets drop that he just got off the phone with Texas billionaire H.

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On a smaller scale, Shark Multimedia's new Leopard USB modem is a pocket-size external modem that also operates with any H.324 video phone system.

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Four years ago, the SEC chided H-P's board for failing to disclose that a director resigned after a dispute over the "pretexting, " or snooping into personal phone records, of board members and reporters by H-P contractors.

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There's a DVB-H tuner in there, too, but here's the best part: the phone's going to sport a nice, thick 16GB chunk of internal Flash -- in addition to a microSD slot!

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On Tuesday Google announced that it is dropping support for video standard H.264 in its Chrome web browser, a small disturbance that could ripple out to the phone you carry and television you watch.

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