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Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use (Washington Post) - Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.

Industry groups file lawsuit opposing Chicago's new bottled water tax (Chicago Tribune) - Industry groups filed a lawsuit Friday opposing Chicago's new tax on bottled water -- one of the first of such taxes in a major U.S. city -- arguing the surcharge is unconstitutional and harms city businesses.

Electronics industry gets less traditional (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) - SAN FRANCISCO - About 140,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas this weekend for the giant Consumer Electronics Show, the industry's biggest annual U.S. gathering.

Airline Industry Profits to Slow in 2008 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Rising fuel costs will be the main culprit cutting into U.S. airlines' profits this year, with credit market turmoil and slowing passenger demand also expected to hamper the industry worldwide.

China Lubricant Industry Report, 2007-2010 (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78551) has announced the addition of "China Lubricant Industry Report, 2007-2010" to their offering.

China Auto Apparatus Industry Report, 2007 Available Now (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78584) has announced the addition of "China Auto Apparatus Industry Report, 2007" to their offering.

Airline industry expects lower profits in new year (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Rising fuel costs will be the main culprit cutting into U.S. airlines' profits this year, with credit market turmoil and slowing passenger demand also expected to hamper the industry worldwide. High jet-fuel prices will limit U.S. airlines' combined profitability to between $3.5 billion and $4.5 billion in 2008, compared with last year's estimated profit of $5 billion, the Air Transport ...

INDUSTRY'S GIANTS ARE INDUSTRY'S CHILDREN (Science News) - Destined perhaps to be the driving power behind great industrial plants, these beginnings of giant electrical machines are themselves industry's offspring—giants on the way to birth. Here they are growing in the assembly aisle in the Westinghouse factory.

Logistics industry training under fire (Financial Times) - Poor productivity and high staff turnover in the UK’s logistics industry are adding to costs in the supply chain and undermining the competitiveness of business, according to a government-funded training body.

Trade groups forecast drop in airline industry profits in 2008 (Canadian Business) - Dan Caterinicchia, The Associated Press January 4, 2008 - 6:35 p.m. WASHINGTON - Rising fuel costs will be the main culprit cutting into U.S. airlines' profits this year, with credit market turmoil and slowing passenger demand also expected to hamper the industry worldwide.