Verizon to allow Skype calls over wireless network

AP – Verizon Wireless will let customers use the Internet phone service Skype to make free calls on some phones. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_verizon_wireless_skype Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Verizon BlackBerry Storm 2.

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Amendment to Welfare Plan Held to Be Constructive Amendment to Pension Plan That Reduced Accrued Benefit

The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Battoni v. IBEW Local Union 102 Employee Pension Plan held that a change in a welfare plan amounted to, in effect, an unlawful cutback of participants’ benefits in a pension plan in violation of the anti-cutback provisions of ERISA and IRC §411(d)(6).  The matter in question [...]

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President’s Tax Proposals for FY2011 Outlined in Treasury Green Book

Details of the tax proposal in the President’s 2011 budget proposal are described in the Treasury Department’s “Green Book,” more formally known as the General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 Revenue Proposals.  The 153 page document is available from the Treasury Department’s website as a PDF file.

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