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Blair warns food industry to restrict ads (AP via Yahoo! News) - Britain's prime minister sent a strong warning Wednesday to the food industry to restrict advertising of less healthy products to children — or risk a total ban on promotions that target minors.

Microsoft to Offer Software for Health Care Industry (New York Times) - The move shifts away from the company’s usual strategy of encouraging others to create industry-specific products using its operating system.

Blair Warns Food Industry to Restrict Ads (ABC News) - Food Industry Must Restrict Advertising Which Targets Children, Britain's Blair Says

Recycled water for industry, not households: Quinn (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - The Queensland Opposition says industry should be required to use recycled water, rather than forcing householders to use the product.

Industry welcomes aged care abuse plan (The Age) - New government measures to prevent abuse and sexual assault in nursing homes have won the backing from the aged care industry. -

Blair Warns Food Industry to Restrict Ads (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - LONDON(AP) - Britain's prime minister sent a strong warning Wednesday to the food industry to restrict advertising of less healthy products to children - or risk a total ban on promotions that target minors. In a broad address on improving public health, Prime Minister Tony Blair said the government would force the industry to eliminate junk food advertising to children in 2007 if voluntary

Open for Business: M.I.S. Engineering still plugging in consolidating industry (Lincoln Journal Star) - Every week, Jeff Lewis gets auction fliers in the mail. The owner and president of Lincoln’s M. I. S. Engineering gets those notices, he said, because other companies in the circuit board industry haven’t done as he’s done and kept themselves relevant to customers who are always looking for more.

Keng Yaik’s big plans for telco industry (The Star Online) - Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Lim Keng Yaik has big plans for the telecommunications industry. Excerpts from an interview he gave on this to StarBiz' deputy news editor B.K. Siidhu.

Rules Planned for Industry Ties on F.D.A. Boards (New York Times) - The guidelines will detail the kind of industry ties that are permitted for those who serve on F.D.A. advisory boards.

DEMOfall 06 Conference Mirrors Tech Industry Trends (SYS-CON Media) - The semi-annual DEMO conferences are a looking glass into the key technology trends and most promising products that will shortly impact consumer and business technology purchasing decisions. DEMO's Executive Producer, Chris Shipley, screens hundreds of innovative companies from around the world to bring the most exceptional new products and services in the tech industry to each DEMO event.