Cell directory plans spark privacy debate in Congress
The cell phone industry aims to create a reader-access directory for directory assistance, available to read through operators within about a year. About 150 million subscribers exist, and consumers would consent to listing with possible opt-out fees. lawmakers worry over privacy and potential telemarketing.
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United States
Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
Travis Larson
Dee Pitts
R-Pa
House
Consumer and Commerce
Pitts
Larson
AOL launches service for Latinos in Spanish at $23.90 a month
AOL introduces AOL Latino a Spanish language online package with software access internet email and a toll free Spanish customer line. The service targets Spanish dominant households joining Yahoo and MSN in serving the growing Hispanic market.
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David Wellisch
AOL Latino
AOL
Chantilly
America Online
U.S
New York
Tienes
American Online
Yahoo! Inc
Yahoo! En Espanol
Microsoft
MSN
Charlene Li
Forrester Research
Commerce Department
United States
Steel tariffs under fire as industry pushes public
Pittsburgh AP report notes major steel producers claim they met tariff conditions 18 months after Bush measures while concerns mount over protections set to lapse in 2005. Wabur Ross of International Steel Group warns Republicans must credit tariffs amid rising bankruptcies and global trade disputes.
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Pittsburgh
Bush
Wabur Ross
International Steel Group Inc
Ross
Washington
Free Trade For America
World Trade Organization
United States
Miami
U.S. International Trade Commission
U.S
Former Rite Aid exec faces stock fraud trial in Pennsylvania
In Harrisburg, former chief counsel Franklin C. Brown stands trial for conspiring to inflate Tocome stock awards via backdated meeting minutes while his secretary testified Brown paid $25,000 to an aide for a new car after aiding the scheme. Three officers previously pleaded guilty in the accounting scandal.
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Harrisburg
Rite Aid
Franklin C. Brown
Tocome
Mary Lov Egan
Brown
Timothy J. Noonan
Stocks slide as confidence and activity fall in September
In New York, disappointing readings on consumer confidence and Midwest business activity pushed stocks lower, ending September with declines for the month. The Nasdaq, Dow, and S&P retreated while the Nasdaq posted a quarterly gain.
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New York
Midwest
Wall Street
Standard & Poor
Brian Bush
Equity Research
Stephens Inc
Purchasing Management Association of Chicago
Chicago
National Institute For Supply Management
Dollar climbs against yen after Fed Bank move
The dollar surged toward 111.80 yen after funding from the New York Fed boosted the dollar from 110.08 yen, the strongest level since November 2000. The Bank of Japan reportedly acted to defend the 110 yen mark and intervened, with late New York trading showing the dollar at 111.42 yen.
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New York Federal Reserve Bank
Bank of Japan
Tokyo
New York
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