Business News Archive - November 16, 2006

By Stephen A. Smith, The Philadelphia Inquirer Nov. 16--Violence is almost never a good thing. The temptation to slap someone in the head, or inflict serious bodily harm -- while understandable from time to time -- rarely gets you anywhere but arrested, beaten down or killed.

By Joe Bacchus The Board of Estimates' voted without dissent yesterday to award a $7.6 million information technology contract to a Rockville company over the objections of its top competitor. TeleCommunication Systems Inc.