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Blackberry makes offer to India ahead of ban deadline

08/27/2010

Blackberry-maker Research in Motion has said it is willing to work with India to support the country's need for "lawful access" to encrypted services...more

Key Factory-Related Cargoes Rise at Top Railroads

08/27/2010

Major North American railroads increased their loadings in recent weeks of key raw materials as well as some finished goods related to manufacturing activity...more

Google offers free voice calls via Gmail

08/26/2010

Google is taking on internet telephone companies like Skype by allowing users to call from its free web-based email service...more

Short Lines See Traffic on Rise

08/26/2010

North American short line and regional railroads report freight traffic gains on the rise since mid-summer, in contrast to the wave of weak economic reports on housing and other activity for July...more

Web scam hits iTunes and Paypal users

08/25/2010

ITunes accounts linked to Paypal have been targeted in a scam with a number of users complaining that they have been cleaned out...more

Ocean Carriers Move to Hasten Ship Deliveries

08/25/2010

Ocean carriers that were trying to delay deliveries of ships a year ago are now pushing shipyards to bring forward construction dates as confidence returns to container shipping, according to a leading analyst...more

Mars technology creates self-dusting solar panels

08/24/2010

Self-cleaning technology developed for lunar and Mars missions could be used to keep terrestrial solar panels dust free...more

Ocean Carriers to Launch Asia-South America Joint Service

08/24/2010

China Shipping Container Lines, Hanjin Shipping, CMA CGM and Hyundai Merchant Marine will launch a direct joint service from Asia to Mexico and the West Coast of South America, starting on Sept.13...more

L&H Trucking Files for Bankruptcy Protection

08/23/2010

The recession isn't over for many small trucking companies. While larger competitors report record volumes and stronger bottom lines, many smaller carriers are still struggling to stay in business...more

PlayStation 3 ‘hacked’ by hardware crackers

08/23/2010

A group of hardware hackers claim they are about to release the first product to allow gamers to play homemade and pirated games on the PlayStation 3...more

Compra Tenedora K 95% de Mexicana de Aviación

08/23/2010

La empresa Tenedora K, constituida por diversos inversionistas mexicanos, compraron a Grupo Posadas 95% de las acciones de Nuevo Grupo Aeronáutico; el 5% restante permanecen como propiedad de la Asociación Sindical de Pilotos Aviadores de México (ASPA)...más

Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover

08/20/2010

The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, has agreed to buy the security technology firm, McAfee...more

http://www.joc.com/government-regulation/dot-stimulus-spend-tops-17-billion

08/20/2010

The Department of Transportation's payouts of stimulus checks to states for work on roads, bridges and other projects reached $17.134 billion as of Aug. 6, up more than $2 billion since the end of June...more

Home Depot Cuts Inventories, Increases Turns

08/19/2010

Home Depot, gaining benefits from a long-term supply chain improvement program, says it reduced inventory holdings $38 million in the quarter ending Aug. 1 compared to last year even as the retailing giant expanded sales 1.8 percent...more

Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media

08/19/2010

Young people may one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned...more