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Chairman of Cable Giant Urges Industry Shift to Flexible Pricing (New York Times) - Breaking ranks with his compatriots in the cable industry, Charles F. Dolan, the chairman of the Cablevision Systems Corporation, said yesterday that he supported giving consumers the option of paying only for the channels they want, not just the large bundles of channels that are typically offered.

Industry Groups Sue VeriSign, ICANN (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Two domain name industry groups are challenging the recent deal between VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that gives VeriSign control over the .com and .net registries for several more years.

Iran oil industry pays for ministry impasse (CNN.com) - TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's oil industry is not just in the doldrums, it is sinking.

School soft drink sales slumping, soda industry says (USA Today) - It's not often that an industry brags when sales are down. But the American Beverage Association sounds almost proud when it declares in a report being released Thursday that the amount of non-diet soft drinks sold in the nation's schools dropped more than 24% between 2002 and 2004.

Indian Biotech Industry Set For Exponential Growth: Report (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - Fuelled by growing markets and a liberalised economy, the Indian biotech industry is set to witness exponential growth with an estimated turnover of US$4,500 million by 2010.

INDIAN BIOTECH INDUSTRY SET FOR EXPONENTIAL GROWTH: REPORT (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - Statistics Fuelled by growing markets and a liberalised economy, the Indian biotech industry is set to witness exponential growth with an estimated turnover of US$4,500 million by 2010.

Nokia Envisions Industry Growth in 2006 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Top cell phone maker Nokia Corp. said Thursday it expects to see more than 10 percent volume growth in the mobile device industry in 2006, and mobile subscriptions surpassing 3 billion in 2008, two years earlier than the company previously predicted.

UC, industry team up in commercial effort (San Jose Mercury News) - The University of California on Monday unveiled its next big thing in innovation: a huge new institute that partners academia and industry, with the goal of speeding products to patients.

Panel to review oil industry rules (Montana Standard) - SIDNEY (AP) — A legislative subcommittee will visit eastern Montana this month to talk to residents about oil industry regulations. The panel will tour sites around Sidney on Dec. 8 and will hold a public meeting at 8 a.m. on Dec. 9 at Sidney’s Elks Lodge.

Cattlemen debate host of industry issues (Montana Standard) - BILLINGS — Members of the Montana Cattlemen’s Association (MCA) debated a veritable menu of industry issues during the recent MCA convention held in Billings.