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Cellphone industry's best customers speak Spanish (USA Today) - Hispanics in the U.S. are among the mobile phone industry's best customers. They place greater importance on taking pictures with their phones and sending text messages. They are more likely to have unplugged their land lines altogether. And they shell out 10% more money for their wireless bills.

Smoke costing wine industry millions (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - Researchers hope to wipe out a multi-million dollar burden on the wine industry by investigating how smoke from prescribed burns and bushfires affects wine grapes.

Aid coming for nation's lumber industry: Gov't (CTV.ca) - Canada's hard-hit softwood lumber industry can expect a sizeable aid package in "not too many weeks," Natural Resources Minister John McCallum said Monday.

US LEC targets hotel industry (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - US LEC Corp. said it has started selling a product to the hotel industry that combines voice, Internet and video-on de

Nymex chairman to head industry panel (Financial Times) - The chairman of Nymex Europe, a leading derivatives exchange, is to head an influential industry panel advising the Financial Services Authority. Roy Leighton is to become chairman of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel today, succeeding Jonathan Bloomer, former chief executive of Prudential.

Cigar industry's roots run deep in Tampa (Miami Herald) - Tampa's reign as a cigar-industry capital ended decades ago. But local companies remain a critical part of the business' infrastructure.

Tennis industry honors Boulder manufacturer (BizJournals) - Boulder's Max Brownlee has been singled out as the Person of the Year in the tennis industry. The honor comes from Racquet Sports Industry magazine, which bestowed the title on him in its November-December issue.

Industry gets its own academies (BBC News) - Four areas of industry will get their own training academies under a £40m plan announced on Monday.

Pak pharma industry fear India, China may control 60% of its market in 2 yrs (PharmaBiz) - The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in Pakistan fear at least 60 per cent of the domestic manufacturers would be wiped out in two to three years with India and China likely to dominate the Pakistan pharma market.

US LEC targets hotel industry (Pittsburgh Business Times) - US LEC Corp. said it has started selling a product to the hotel industry that combines voice, Internet and video-on demand services.