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The Fool Looks Ahead

Monday
As the new trading week kicks off, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) hosts a media event that's likely to include the unveiling of the Windows Phone 7 platform. Mr. Softy is more than a little late to the smartphone space, and it has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to contend in this hot field.

Chase apologizes for online outage

New York -- U.S. banking giant Chase said it would work with customers who had trouble paying bills when the company's online service failed this week.

Accessing accounts through the Internet failed for more than 24 hours, ending Wednesday morning, but customers after that still reported on-again, off-again success logging in, The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

In the digital world, seconds are all but tangible. Celent industry analyst Jacob Jegher said Chase's outage was "an eternity in the online world."

At Chase, 16.5 million customers use their online services, the newspaper said. Bank spokesman Tom Kelly said, "Whatever the issue is, we're happy to talk with them."

What Investors Think About Chase

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Airport workers allowed to chase coyotes

Dayton, Ohio -- No laws were broken when employees at an Ohio airport used vehicles to scare and chase coyotes off runways, wildlife officials say.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has concluded the workers at the Dayton International Airport were not trying to kill the animals, the Dayton Daily News reported. One injured coyote was put down in April.

In another incident in April, an employee was hurt when his vehicle turned over while he was driving on wet grass.

A Dame and a Dog

Ever been chased by a bulldog? I’ve been. Scariest thing in the world, I tell you. Though my brush with the bulldoggy took place in college days, the memory is horribly vivid. Here's what transpired...

It was a lovely evening with lovely lasses pottering randomly around the market place. I was stationary at a popular ice-cream parlor with an old pal of mine, having licks at a cone and eyeing (not to be confused with ogling) playfully every pretty face that managed to catch my fancy.