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		<description><![CDATA[By Dvaid BrettLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - The top share index fell 0.5 percent on Monday, as concerns over a potential windfall tax dragged the banks lower, while miners and energy stocks dropped with commodities prices as the U.S. dollar strengthened.At 11:55 a.m., the FTSE 100  was down 25.36 points...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vodafone teams up with Alcatel-Lucent for smart metering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ UK mobile operator Vodafone is teaming up with Paris-based telecoms firm, Alcatel-Lucent, to offer a smart metering service in Germany. The firms say the service will give customers real-time information about their electricity, gas and water use, allowing them to manage their energy consumption more efficiently.   ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hidden Gems for Green Investors: PFB, Vodafone and Telefonica]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Paul submits: Looking for alternative energy stocks with undiscovered potential? Who isn&#8217;t? Here are three possibilities with three more to come next week. You can decide for yourself whether they are worth further investigation. by Bill Paul]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vodafone Eyes Pension Closure - Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Britain's Vodafone VOD is planning to close its 755 million pounds final salary pension scheme to around 4,000 of it's employees, the Financial Times reported in its Thursday editions.Vodafone is following several other high profile employers in blocking current workers from earning further retirement benefits that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile and Orange merger could face concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange may be asked to make concessions to competition regulators in order to get approval for their UK merger. Ed Richards, CEO of UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom, says regulators are likely to ask the mobile operators to relinquish radio spectrum. Regulators may also scrutinise how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Formula 1 champion Jenson Button moves from Brawn GP to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Button moves from Brawn GP and it is understood that his remuneration will be less than his previous employer. The deal sees Button join with fellow British racing star Lewis Hamilton and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. The new signing gives Vodafone McLaren Mercedes the opportunity promote the two most recent British...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:11:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[O2 sales of iPhone remain strong]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The arrival of Orange as the second network in the UK able to sell the iPhone has not dented sales of the Apple handset through its original UK partner, O2.  But Matthew Key, chairman and chief executive of Telefónica Europe - the group which owns O2...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[India takes its toll on Vodafone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator by revenue, warned of a sharper than expected reduction in its profit margin in 2009-10 and said that competition in India was taking its toll.The UK group tried to reassure investors by revealing a by Financial Times]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vodafone steps up cost-cutting as profits rise]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ • Mobile phone group expecting annual profits of up to £11.8bn • Tough times ahead in UK market as rival Orange starts selling iPhone    Vodafone is ramping up its cost-cutting programme, looking to save a further £1bn over the next two years, as the world's largest...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coke, Vodafone, pinned for spamming]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.]]></description>
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