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Mobile phone industry introduces novel devices and software (International Herald Tribune) - Industry analysts at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona said cellphone makers were starting to compete on more than looks, technology and price.

Will the Record Industry Ditch the DRM? (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Apple CEO Steve Jobs sparked an industry debate with a controversial suggestion to remove copy-protection technologies on digital music. Jobs posed his notion to nix digital rights management, or DRM, in an open letter to record labels last week, but so far the responses have been mixed.

New markets boost mobile industry (CNN.com) - Mobile phone manufacturers have gathered in Barcelona for the world's top wireless trade show, 3GSM, with the industry buoyed by fast growing developing market sales and the growing popularity of mobile Internet.

It's gloom and doom for the chip industry, says TSMC founder (CNET) - Blog: The semiconductor industry these days is no barrel of laughs, according to Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...

Wine industry urged to give fair prices to growers (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - Wine Grape Growers Australia is calling on the winemaking industry to deliver fairer prices to growers given the prediction of a wine shortage.

Booming Scots games industry 'excluded' by Executive (The Scotsman) - A LEADING figure in the £20 million Scottish digital games industry has slammed the Scottish Executive for excluding industry representatives from the board of Creative Scotland, announced last month.

Tadd's Success Helps Golf Industry (KHNL News 8 Honolulu) - WAIKELE (KHNL) - First it was the Sony open, now it's the Pearl Open. Tadd Fujikawa's success means a boost for the local golf industry. Some head pro golfers say they see an increased interest.

Oil industry heavyweights meet to discuss future of energy (KHOU) - The future of Houston is energy, but as the oil industry heavyweights in town this week to discuss the business know, it's the future of energy itself that's the big question mark.

Pressure on industry after Miss England speaks out (The Scotsman) - THE British fashion industry came under renewed pressure yesterday over the use of size-zero models in catwalk shows.

Pharma industry faces shortage of quality professionals (PharmaBiz) - At a time when thousands of management students are coming out in the job market in the country every year, the Indian pharma industry is faced with a rather unusual problem of acute shortage of quality management professionals, forcing the industry to train the MBA graduates as per the requirements of pharma industry.