Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.

S&P 500 Leaders & Laggards: MBI, HBAN
Shares of MBIA Inc. declined on Friday and helped tug the Standard & Poor’s 500 lower amid high oil prices and continued worries about the health of the financial sector.

HP joins the campaign against keyboards
computing It’s hard enough keeping my kids’ hands off our TV and computer screens, never mind the windows and mirrors. But that’s just fine with Hewlett-Packard : It encourages us all to paw at the 22-inch display on its TouchSmart PC, rather than at the its keyboard.

Sonus holders re-elect 3 directors
Sonus Networks Inc. shareholders re-elected three directors to three-year terms on the board, the maker of networking equipment said Friday.

On the Watch: Smart phone makers
Next week, Research In Motion Ltd. and Palm Inc. post quarterly results on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

Girl Fights 65-Day Bout Of Hiccups
A girl started hiccupping one day in class and didn’t stop for months.

Canadian court allows largest ever leveraged buyout
BCE Inc. on Friday won the right to go ahead with the largest leveraged buyout in history, a US$35 billion deal that the telecommunications company’s bondholders fought, saying it would reduce their holdings to junk.

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