BRIEFCASE NAPSTER NOW OPEN TO U.S. MILITARY.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Napster announced Wednesday an agreement with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (or AAFES) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. Its mission is to provide quality merchandise and services of necessity and convenience to authorized customers at uniformly low prices, and to generate reasonable that gives all branches of the U.S. military access to the Napster 2.0 music service through the CentricMall.com Web site. AFES AFES Armed Forces Emergency Services AFES Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station AFES Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (see IFES) AFES Automated Financial Entitlements System AFES Army Frequency Engineering Software is making Napster's catalog of music available to more than 11.5 million active, reserve and retired military personnel and their families. ``When we learned of the demand for digital music within the military community, particularly from overseas, we immediately dedicated resources to meeting that need,'' said Chris Gorog, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Roxio and its Napster division. News Corp. gets 8% earning bump 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 - News Corp., the media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, reported an 8 percent increase in earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday, thanks in part to growth in its cable TV business and the Fox broadcast network. The company, which recently announced plans to move its headquarters from Murdoch's native Australia to New York, earned $399 million in the quarter ending June 30, up from $370 million in the comparable period a year ago. Net earnings per U.S.-listed share were equivalent to 27 cents versus 28 cents a year ago. Excluding one-time items, the company reported earnings of 29 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. compared to 24 cents per share, a penny ahead of the estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call. The company reported that operating income Operating Income The profit realized from a business' own operations. Notes: This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit. at its cable networks rose 60 percent in the quarter over the same period a year ago, which was partly attributable to the absence of losses from the Los Angeles Dodgers "Dodgers" and "Brooklyn Dodgers" redirect here. For the American football team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). For the Eastern Basketball Association team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball). , which the company sold in the prior quarter. Earnings from the company's Hollywood studios rose 7 percent, thanks partly to home video releases of ``Cheaper by the Dozen'' as well as catalog films such as ``There's Something About Mary.'' But those earnings were partially offset by marketing costs for ``The Day After Tomorrow'' and other big-budget releases including ``I, Robot I, Robot is a collection of nine English language science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. .'' Child car seats under wide recall WASHINGTON - Britax Child Safety Inc. is recalling 355,516 child seats because a harness can loosen and endanger the child, the government said Wednesday. Britax is recalling all Marathon, Husky, Wizard and Snug Seat Traveler Plus seats. The seats were made between August 2002 and this July and have the model numbers E9L06, E9L30, E9L07 and E9L32, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. said. Britax will provide consumers with a free kit that will allow them to fix the problem by replacing the adjuster strap. Registered owners should receive the kit by Sept. 30. Consumers who did not register should call (800) 683-2045 to receive a kit. Judge won't allow early trial for Lay HOUSTON - Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay won't get the September trial he wanted on charges stemming from the scandal-choked company's collapse. But he could learn by early October whether he'll get a separate trial or face a judge or jury next alongside his one-time protege, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, and the company's former top accountant, Richard Causey. |
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