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Wider spying drives plan to aid telecom industry (International Herald Tribune) - At stake in the Bush administration's campaign to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the warrantless eavesdropping program is the government's partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance.

Tax rebate for Aussie gaming industry? (Australian IT) - STEPHEN Conroy will be asked to honour his pre-election pledge to extend tax rebates to the gaming industry.

Industry: Action is 'fair' (Casper Star-Tribune) - The state engineer's decision to require proof that produced coal-bed methane water actually contributes to the commercial production of gas appears to have support from both the industry and landowners who have criticized past management of the water.

Tax rebate for Aussie gaming industry? (News Interactive) - STEPHEN Conroy will be asked to honour his pledge to extend tax rebates to the gaming industry.

ITRI expects flattish PCB industry growth in 2008 (Digi Times) - Following a slowdown in on-year printed circuit board (PCB) industry growth worldwide in 2007, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan expects the industry growth will be flat in 2008, with a slow improvement to be driven by emerging regions thereafter in 2009 and 2010.

Amateurs squeezing out porn industry profits (The New Zealand Herald) - Given the comparative lack of dialogue, pornographers and triple-X movie stars of the San Fernando Valley have been unaffected by the screenwriters' strike crippling Hollywood's movie industry. But that does not mean all is going smoothly.

Truck industry bets big on heavy vehicles (The Economic Times) - The truck industry is trying to bet big on heavier vehicles that feed in to the railway network rather than compete with railways through medium-sized trucks.

`Domestic stuffed toy industry is growing at 25% a year` (Business Standard India) - Having survived the imported Chinese toys that nearly killed the Indian toy industry, the Rs 2,000-crore domestic toy industry has come a long way. AK Bansal , chief managing director, Hanung Toys and Textiles Ltd, spoke to Ashish Sinha about the turnaround of the Indian toy industry and his company’s plans for the Indian market.

If money talks in Washington, industry only pays for a whisper (The Des Moines Register) - The future of Iowa’s biofuels industry has reached a turning point, resting in the hands of Congress and the promise of a new president.

Despite current industry troubles, Red Bluff High School newspaper shows it's not bluffing on journalism (The Record Searchlight) - With declining circulation and staff downsizing throughout the newspaper industry, who would want to get into journalism?