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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.

Oil and Gas Industry finds a safe harbor in Morgan City, Louisiana (Oil Online) - Amidst the devastation wrought on the oil and gas industry by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, Morgan City has provided a safe harbor to business and government leaders as they begin to pick up the pieces.

Oil Industry Not Keen to Boost Supply (RedNova) - By Brad Foss WASHINGTON - Don't expect the oil industry to boost fuel production merely to deflect criticism from Congress about soaring prices and profits.

OP industry to gather in fight against counterfeiters (OPI) - 1 November 2005 - London (UK): OPI and ICCE (The Imaging Consumables Coalition of Europe) are to hold the industry's first conference on the problem of piracy and brand counterfeiting.

Tour de France author pens portrait of industry stalwart (BikeBiz.com) - Graeme Fife, author of the recently updated and revised 'Tour de France: The History, the Legend, the Riders', has written a biography of Bob Chicken Snr. 'Bob Chicken - A Passion for the Bike' is interspersed with a history of the post-1945 British bicycle industry.

Industry News (UK Auto Industry) - The Motor Cycle Industry (MCI) says it is outraged by Parliament's decision to virtually eliminate motorised use of what it calls ‘Britain's unsurfaced road network’.

Investors Bancorp hopes to challenge industry's giants (DailyRecord.com) - SHORT HILLS -- Robert M. Cashill has mastered the pitch about how community banks can give personalized, grass-roots service that industry giants do not.

Music industry still singing the blues (The Times) - With a backslide in motion, the music industry is in a funk. Again. Weakening album sales will place year-end totals behind 2004, making last year's modest gain over 2003 more of a hiccup than a hike.

Representatives of bioenergy firms discuss benefits of technology to lumber industry (SEMissourian.com) - FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. -- With the lumber industry facing declining profits, the Eastern Ozarks Forestry Council is exploring ways to add value to wood product.

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.