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Drop in jet fuel costs has airline industry looking up (USA Today) - Gulf Coast jet fuel has dropped to its lowest price in nearly 13 months, and may be headed lower. That's boosted the outlook for a troubled U.S. airline industry in 2007 and has stoked investors' demand for airline stocks.

Wi-Fi Industry Group Makes Security Easy (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology standards is launching a simplified method for configuring the security settings between a wireless router, laptops and other devices, addressing a long-standing complaint that keeps many users from protecting their home networks.

Pentagon as financial regulator? No, industry begs (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The Pentagon is writing a rule to keep the minds of U.S. troops on their missions by shielding them from debt, but the prospect of the Defense Department as a regulator frightens the financial industry.

Lights! Camera! Action! 2007 projected to be busy for NM film industry (BizJournals) - State officials expect 2007 to be a good year for the film industry, as measured by dollars spent and movie cameras rolling in New Mexico.

Biotech confab serves as industry's barometer (BizJournals) - A hangover, the Rose Bowl and the unsullied pages of a fresh calendar are all signs of the new year, but for the biotechnology industry it is the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference that marks the year's beginning.

Seagate Ships Lyrion, the Industry's Most Intelligent and Evolved 1.8-Inch Hard Drive Enabling Best-in-Class Portable ... (SYS-CON Media) - to customers worldwide. Lyrion provides a breakthrough in capacity with the industry's first single platter 60GB 1.8- inch hard drive, enabled by perpendicular recording technology, with only 5-mm of thickness. With a single platter 60GB hard drive, portable devices will be able to carry up to 80 movies, up to 200 hours of music videos, up to 20 hours of standard definition video or up to 12 ...

No Snow Hurts Snowmobile Industry (R News) - The mild winter weather in Rochester has not been a welcome site for outdoor recreation. The snow mobile industry is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in New York.

Sugar industry meeting this week to deal with illicit cane fires (The Jamaica Observer) - MONTEGO BAY, St James - Sugar expert Karl James is to meet with local industry players this week in an effort to devise strategies aimed at stamping out the illicit burning of cane.

Seagate Ships Lyrion, the Industry's Most Intelligent and Evolved 1.8-Inch Hard Drive Enabling Best-in-Class Portable ... (FinanzNachrichten) - #30659), Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate Technology ( Nachrichten ), the world's number one hard drive maker, announced today that it is starting shipment of its Lyrion hard drive -- the industry's most intelligent and evolved 1.8-inch hard drive -- to customers worldwide.

CBI leader says that industry would not miss DTI (Times Online) - The Department of Trade and Industry could be scrapped without any impact on business, the president of the CBI has told The Times....