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UPS Inc.'s third-quarter profit fell nearly 10 percent despite a rise in sales, the world's largest shipping carrier said Thursday as it warned that it faces more challenges ahead, job cuts may be on the horizon and the "scope and the size" of a deal it is working out to carry some packages for rival DHL could change.

Welcome to the 10th installment of the Crystal Ball Sunday series. This is an exciting time to be involved with Linux because the temperature is right for some Linux vendor consolidation.

In my August 22nd post, Microsoft and Novell: Buying In or Selling Out, I subtly predicted that Microsoft would end up buying Novell due to its overwhelming and somewhat odd major investment in Novell.

My prediction hasn't come true quite yet but on the horizon for 2009 you'll see Linux company consolidation.

I think several of the more popular distributions will be absorbed (assimilated) into the larger...

With all the money Big Oil is making -- the top five pocketed more than $120 billion in 2007 -- and with an election on the horizon, it's easy to see why politicians are eyeing oil profits.

But analysts tell Money.com that going after oil profits could backfire on consumers.