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Probe of lucrative US student loan industry widens (AFP via Yahoo! News) - A probe into the US student loan industry has resulted in an out-of-court settlement with a major lender, but more questions of kickbacks and "conflicts of interest" are being probed, officials said.

Appearance Of Bee Mite Poses Threat To Hawaii Industry (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - Hawaii was the last place on Earth to be free of a pest that attacks honeybees, but now that pest has arrived and scientists worry its presence will have a global impact on Hawaii's bee and honey industry.

EU setback for mobile phone industry (FT.com via Yahoo! News) - The European mobile phone industry on Thursday suffered a setback when an influential parliamentary committee backed plans to slash the cost of cross-border calls.

Hope for languishing HK film industry as China relaxes rules (Channel NewsAsia) - What a difference a year makes. It was all doom and gloom for the Hong Kong film industry when its premiere film awards were given out last year. The number of home-grown productions had dipped to an all-time low of 51, compared to 55 the year before.

Merrill CEO says subprime woe reports exaggerate state of industry (Market Watch) - PHILADELPHIA (MarketWatch) -- Merrill Lynch & Co. Chief Executive Stan O'Neal suggested Thursday that the state of the firm's newly acquired subprime mortgage unit wasn't as dire as seen elsewhere in the troubled industry. "I think many of the reports that I've seen have exaggerated and misunderstood the nature of the business and how it's managed," O'Neal told Dow Jones Newswires after his ...

NIST And Industry Produce Improved Shock Tests (Science Daily) - NIST has worked with industry, government, professional societies and standards developing organizations to help develop an international standard for characterizing mechanical vibration and shock and its effect on systems and components.

Record Labels To Blame For Industry Decline (WebProNews) - Physical music sales continued a trend of downward progression and digital revenues are not making up the difference. Within the next two years, total revenues from music sales are projected to dip down to $23 billion, which is half of what the industry brought home a decade earlier. Tower Records recently closed its doors for good, signaling the end of an era for the brick and mortar music ...

NIST and industry produce improved shock tests (EurekAlert!) - Extensive National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) work with industry, government, professional societies and standards developing organizations contributed to the release recently of an international standard for characterizing mechanical vibration and shock, and how systems from computer components to airframes and armored vehicles respond to specific kinds of shocks.

EDA industry saw 15% growth in 2006, reports EDAC (Electronic Engineering Times Asia) - The EDA industry revenue grew 15.3 percent in 2006 to reach $5.274 billion, according to the EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Survey.

Industry fumbles in February (The Telegraph) - New Delhi, April 12: The growth rate of industry fell to 11 per cent in February compared with 11.4 per cent in January, according to the Central Statistical Organisation.