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Outcry as Jakarta tries to revive paper industry (International Herald Tribune) - Buoyed by demand driven mainly by China and India, the Indonesian government is trying to revive investor interest in its pulp and paper industry, four years after it was rocked by the biggest emerging market debt default in history.

Ad industry feels exonerated by Gomery report, blames scandal on 'bad seeds’ (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - TORONTO (CP) - The Gomery report may have brought the dark side of the advertising industry to light, but insiders say they feel exonerated by the findings, which show the federal sponsorship scandal was the work of "a few bad seeds" and did not reflect the way the industry does business as a whole.

Music industry singing the blues (The Tucson Citizen) - With a backslide in motion, the music industry is in a funk. Again.

SSA Global Wins 2005 Software Industry Award for Best Product Strategy (The Auto Channel) - CHICAGO--Nov. 2, 2005--SSA Global(TM) , a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, today announced that the company has won the 2005 Software Industry Award in the category of Best Product Strategy.

Music industry blocks BBC download; opera goes airborne (CBS Market Watch) - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- There will be no encore performance of downloading when the British Broadcasting Corp. kicks off a 10-day Bach extravaganza on its BBC Radio 3 Web site next month. Complaints by the music industry have been heard.

Senate Wants Oil Industry Execs To Justify Huge Profits (Local6.com Central Florida) - WASHINGTON -- Top executives of three major oil companies will be asked by senators next week why some of their industry's estimated $96 billion in record profits this year shouldn't be used to help people having trouble paying their energy bills.

Florida seafood industry damage: In the millions (Tampa Bay's 10) - Tampa, Florida -- Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson will be touring Marathon today to assess Hurricane Wilma's damage to Florida's seafood industry.

FLO Forum Grows as Wireless Industry Embraces Technology (Wireless IQ) - The FLO Forum, an association of wireless industry leaders, announced that...

'Pfizer at a Pivotal Moment in Its History and the Entire Pharmaceutical Industry Needs to Pay Attention' Says (RedNova) - Pfizer, the world's first druggernaut, has sales of over $52 billion and profits of $14 billion and showed 17% growth from 2003 to 2004, far above the industry average.

11/02: Scare tactics: Move industry goes after local kid, grandpa (Journal Times Online) - MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 67-year-old man who says he doesn’t even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer.