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Daily Report Monday, March 5 , 2007Daily HighlightsThe Better Business Bureau System is warning all businesses across the U.S. and Canada of a spoofing scam using the BBB name and a false BBB e−mail address to entice recipients to access potentially damaging hyperlinks. (See item 11)
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USA TODAY reports United Airlines is reviewing why a California−bound flight sat full of passengers for more than seven hours at Chicago O'Hare last weekend during an ice storm. (See item 14)
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Reuters reports rates of diabetes in Ontario −− Canada's most populous, most ethnically diverse province −− have already zoomed past what was predicted for 2030, which suggests the emerging global diabetes epidemic will be far worse than feared. (See item 28)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector
35. March 02, Reuters — Sanyo to share battery recall cost with Lenovo. Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday, March 2, it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo−made laptop battery packs that can overheat. The ThinkPad battery recall comes during an investigation of loss−making Sanyo by Japan's securities watchdog the Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission. The lithium−ion extended−life battery packs, jointly designed by Lenovo and Sanyo and tested by Lenovo, can overheat and spark if dropped hard on to the ground, the two companies said.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2099929,00.asp
36. March 02, CNET News — FCC: Local phone companies must connect Net calls. In a boost to Internet phone providers, federal regulators have ruled that local telephone companies must connect Net−based calls shuttled over broadband lines owned by wholesalers like Sprint Nextel and Verizon Communications. In a 16−page order to local telephony providers issued Thursday, March 1, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively overturned decisions by state regulators in South Carolina and Nebraska that had prevented Time Warner Cable from deploying its voice−over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service there. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said the states had misinterpreted federal telecommunications law. "Our decision will enhance consumers' choice for phone service by making clear that cable and other VoIP providers must be able to use local phone numbers and be allowed to put calls through to other phone networks," Martin said in a statement Thursday. Time Warner Cable, the nation's second−largest cable operator, had petitioned the FCC for relief about a year ago.
FCC's order: