AP - Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is set to announce Thursday that it is slashing the price of its unlimited calling plan to $50 from $80 per month, a result of fierce competition and price-cutting among second-tier cellular carriers.
Politico - Blog: I'd initially, wrongly labeled this video "parody" in remainders, but it's apparently real -- an audition tape left online by the producer
AFP - US videogame publisher Electronic Arts announced that top game designer Will Wright, superstar creator of "The Sims," "SimCity" and "Spore," was leaving the company.
AP - Eight years after NASA began interviewing thousands of pilots about air safety and then sat on the results, a congressional investigation leaves the public no closer to learning what the now-closed project might reveal about safe skies.
Politico - Arranging a White House Seder is shaping up to be trickier than President Barack Obama and his aides probably expected - at least when it comes to the guest list.
PC World - Though mobile operators say they want more open phone platforms and are moving toward packet-based 4G networks, they are stuck between a future of being "dumb pipes" like DSL or cable operators and a present in which the bulk of their revenue still comes from the sale of voice minutes.
Reuters - General Motors Corp and Chrysler launched government-backed assistance programs for parts suppliers on Wednesday, and the task force overseeing the carmakers' restructuring was expected to meet with GM this week to speed up the process.
Reuters - General Motors Corp and Chrysler launched government-backed assistance programs for parts suppliers on Wednesday, and the task force overseeing the carmakers' restructuring was expected to meet with GM this week to speed up the process.
AP - Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming ? a radical idea once dismissed out of hand ? is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's new science adviser said Wednesday.
AP - Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming ? a radical idea once dismissed out of hand ? is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's new science adviser said Wednesday.
AP - The U.S. sent warships speeding to the scene. But they were hours away when the brazen pirates attacked, and the world's greatest sea power had to face the fact that it had only limited options to respond to the startling seizure of American merchant seamen
AP - The U.S. sent warships speeding to the scene. But they were hours away when the brazen pirates attacked, and the world's greatest sea power had to face the fact that it had only limited options to respond to the startling seizure of American merchant seamen.
AP - The crew of a U.S.-flag ship seized by pirates off Somalia has retaken the vessel, American officials said Wednesday, even as a shaken national security establishment faced troubling questions about the hostage-taking at high sea.
Reuters - Regulators opened a debate on Wednesday on how the United States, trailing many industrialized countries in access and adoption of high-speed Internet, can extend the technology to low-income and other under-served areas.
AP - The crew of a U.S.-flag ship seized by pirates off Somalia is believed to have retaken the vessel, the Pentagon said Wednesday, even as a shaken national security establishment confronted troubling questions about the hostage-taking at high sea.
AP - Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied Wednesday in Pyongyang to support Kim Jong Il as he embarks on his third term as leader and to celebrate a rocket launch that was criticized elsewhere as a violation of U.N. sanctions.
AP - Shares of U.S. life insurance companies rose broadly on Wednesday, after a report that the U.S. Treasury Department plans to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program to some life insurers.
Reuters - tocks rose slightly on Wednesday after news of government aid for some life insurers and a merger among homebuilders spurred optimism that offset a quarterly loss from Alcoa .
Reuters - Shares of Alcoa Inc rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday, as some analysts applauded the aluminum maker's cost cuts and results at its engineered products unit.
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