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CHICAGO – Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU) Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose four-fold on strong sales of wireless network products and services, sending its shares up nearly 6 percent. Lucent also said it would combine its business to wireless service providers and traditional phone companies into one unit, simplifying operations and …

PHILADELPHIA – Federal prosecutors who spent more than a month presenting a complicated, sometimes dry corruption (search) case against Philadelphia’s former treasurer summed up their case with two words: “unrelenting greed.” The prosecutors told jurors Thursday that Corey Kemp (search) twice accepted $5,000 payments from the late Democratic fund-raiser Ronald …

DALLAS – Shares of Dell Inc. (DELL) took a beating after the world’s largest personal computer maker warned it will miss its own targets for sales and profits during the first quarter because of “pricing decisions.” Analysts said Dell’s move showed that it cannot dodge tough competition and savage price-cutting …