BRIEFCASE BATMOBILE RECALL CITES CHILD HAZARD.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and - Hundreds of thousands of Batmobiles by Mattel are being recalled after reports that more than a dozen children have been hurt by the toys, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says. Mattel, based in El Segundo, agreed to recall 314,000 of the blue-and- gray toy cars. The rear tail wings of the Batmobile are made of a hard plastic that rises to a sharp point and poses a hazard to young children, the safety commission says. Parents are advised to take the toys away from children and contact Mattel at (888) 271-9891 for free replacement wings. City National net income up in '04 City National Corp., parent company of City National Bank, reported Wednesday net income of $50.9 million, or $1 per share, for the first quarter of 2004. The company reported net income of $43.7 million, or 87 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , for the same quarter last year and $44.4 million, or 87 cents per share, for the fourth quarter of 2003. Average deposits were up 12 percent and average core deposits were up 16 percent from the same period a year ago. Average loans came to nearly $7.9 billion for the first quarter of 2004, $280.9 million higher than the fourth quarter 2003 total of $7.6 billion. Convad, Qwest sign DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary accord NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Under the first such agreement reached without federal regulatory intervention, high-speed Internet See broadband. provider Covad will rent lines from Qwest Communications
Covad Communications Group Inc. will share lines with Denver-based Qwest in the regional Bell company's seven-state area. The FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. had mandated such deals until last August, and individual states set the rates Bell companies would be paid. In some states, Qwest was paid nothing to share its lines, said Bill Campbell, the company's director of product management for inter-connection services. Amazon launches Net search tool SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. - Online retailer Amazon.com quietly launched an Internet search service Wednesday, jumping into a marketplace already crowded with tools and promised offerings from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Corp. The service, in test mode for now, is operated by a Palo Alto, Calif.-based subsidiary and branded separately from Amazon's retail business. Like its competitors, Amazon's A9.com offers both a Web site and an Internet Explorer toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the from which users can enter search terms. Searches also can be limited to just Amazon.com products - as well as the text of books available at Amazon.com. A9.com's service currently relies heavily on a partnership with Google, which supplies many of the search results, and Amazon's Alexa subsidiary, which provides traffic, other sites of interest and additional information on specific Web sites. |
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