| Business News |
Insurer AIG has $7.8 bln Q1 loss, to raise capital
(Reuters)
 Reuters - American International Group Inc
, the world's largest insurer, posted its largest ever
quarterly loss on Thursday after writing down assets linked to
subprime mortgages, and said it would raise $12.5 billion to
strengthen its balance sheet.
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Oil surges to record high as funds march in
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil rose to a fresh record near $125 a
barrel on Friday, as a strong performance over the last week
and a surge in heating oil futures convinced investment funds
to push prices higher.
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Citigroup mulls up to $400 bln asset sales: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Citigroup Inc will present plans to
sell as much as $400 billion of extraneous assets when it meets
with investors and analysts on Friday, a person familiar with
the situation said.
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Nissan to outsource sales network setup in India
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Japan's Nissan Motor Co said on Friday it
had appointed Hover Automotive India Private to develop its
sales network in India, with the aim of establishing 55 dealers
by 2012 to sell more than 100,000 vehicles that year.
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Societe Generale names Didier Valet as new CFO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Societe Generale on Friday said
it had named Didier Valet, head of strategic performance
management at its finance division as its news chief financial
officer.
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More shoppers seeking shelter from economy in discounters
(AP)
 AP - Caught in the maelstrom of higher gas and food prices, Americans — even more affluent ones — are seeking shelter in wholesale clubs and discount apparel chains.
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VideoReDo TVSuite 3.1 |
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VideoReDo TVSuite delivers a simple and fast way to edit and create customized DVD's of your favorite TV shows, movies, and sports. Unlike home movie video editors, or those "all-in-one factory" DVD products designed for many purposes, VideoReDo TVSuite was designed to easily edit MPEG2 video and quickly create DVDs. Simplify your editing, and quickly cre... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Phantom CD 0.9.7 |
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Mount your CD/DVD image files as virtual CD/DVD disc with Phantom CD. Use disc images for your CD and DVD backup. Replace your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing your application and games to... |
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AutoPlay Menu Builder 5.4 |
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AutoPlay Menu Builder is one
of the best tools for creating an automatic playing menu to launch
your cd or dvd. No programming experience is necessary! Just click
and drag your mouse a few times, and like magic you can build a
menu which will pop up when your disc is inserted into the drive.... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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K Kitchen 2.0.1 |
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Burn CD / DVD media, duplication, image, and disc ripping..Features:Audio CD/DVD,Data CD/DVD (Filesystems: Mac and PC, ISO9660, Mac only, DVD-ROM)Duplication CD and DVD,Burn image mode (Formats: ISO9660, DMG, CUE/BIN, cdrdao's TOC/BIN)Disc ripping modeErasing rewritable media... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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DVD Copy Studio 1.0 |
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With its clean design, DVD Copy Studio makes the DVD movie copying process easier than ever. Users can compress their DVD movies onto just one blank DVD. It's as easy as selecting the DVD content source, then its destination, and clicking copy. Full upgrades for life! |
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Disc Creator 4.5 |
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Disc Creator 4's sleek and easy to use interface gives you the power to burn your data, music, movies, and photos to any disc media including Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. Includes tools for ripping your music and creating stylish disc labels. Now compatible with Windows Vista. Full upgrades for life!Features:Data burningCreate audio CDsDVD-Video burningCrea... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Durable Copy 3.4 |
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Durable Copy is specially created to copy files which contain
unreadable sectors as well as to copy files by unstable connections. |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Abdio MP3 CD Burner 5.6 |
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Abdio MP3 CD Burner is an easy-to-use and powerful dvd cd burner to burn MP3, WAV, ISO, WMA, OGG, and APE to high-quality CDs or DVDs . You can create and burn ISO image file. It can support Long File Name File System, It can supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL. You can Write on Rewritable CDs/DVDs, You can make backup... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Abdio DVD CD Burner 5.6 |
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Abdio DVD CD Burner is an easy-to-use and powerful dvd cd burner to burn MP3, DATA, ISO, AUDIOS, VIDEOS, and IMAGES to high-quality CDs or DVDs . You can create and burn ISO image file. It can support Long File Name File System, It can supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL. You can Write on Rewritable CDs/DVDs, You can m... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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WTM CD Protect 1.98.5 |
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Need a good copy protection measure? Worried about piracy? WTM CD Protect - Protect your software against illegal copy. If you are looking for easy to use, simple and effective CD protection then look no further. More profit with less illegal copies. Allow WTM CD Protect to handle this for you. |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Ahead DVD Ripper 3.1.2 |
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Ahead DVD Ripper is a small tool that allow you backup DVD to VCD2.0, SVCD1.0 or AVI (divx...),MP3,OGG,WMA,WAV. It produces good quality movies in AVI , MPEG1/2 format that take nearly only 1/10 of original size and extract dvd audio and save to mp3,ogg wma,wav.. Ahead DVD Ripper supports charpter encode mode so you can split or rip DVD by charpters in on... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ISO Burner 5.0 |
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ISO Burner is an easy-to-use and powerful ISO Burner to burn MP3, DATA, ISO, AUDIOS, VIDEOS, and IMAGES to high-quality CDs or DVDs . You can create and burn ISO image file. It can support Long File Name File System, It can supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL. You can Write on Rewritable CDs/DVDs, You can make backup s... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AutoPlay me PRO 5.0.0 |
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Simply drag and drop your PowerPoint, Word or PDF file and then press the Write CD Now button and you are
done. AutoPlay me PRO does all the work. Not only does it add your file it also adds the correct viewer to the cd so
you now do not need to worry whether a viewer is installed on the target computer.... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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AutoPlay me for PowerPoint 5.0.0 |
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Simply drag and drop your powerpoint presentation file and then press the Write CD Now button and you are done.
AutoPlay me for PowerPoint does all the work.Not only does it add your file it also adds the latest PowerPoint 2003
Viewer to the cd. Your presentation can use this viewer so you now do not need to worry whether PowerPoint is
installed on ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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StarBurn 9.8 |
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StarBurn is a powerful tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. StarBurn supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) as well as a wide variety of burning hardware.Features:All MMC (Multi-Media Command Set) compatible CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burning h... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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daBurner 1.0 |
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DaBurner is a free CD-DVD burning software. DaBurner is also the world's easiest CD-DVD burner tool - burn a disk with just two clicks! No complicated burning options, no "mediacenters", "backup", no bells and whistles. It's just a fast, leightweight and portable burner software (runs from a USB drive without installation) for your everyday burning needs.... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Handy CD Ripper 1.9.0 |
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Handy CD Ripper is an easy to use and powerful Audio CD Ripper. It lets you rip Music from Audio CDs easily and quickly. The following audio file formats are supported: mp3, ogg vorbis, wma, aac, wav. FreeDB (free compact disk database) is supported. You can find disk info in one click! You will enjoy working with this application due to the extremely eas... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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| Software News |
Windows Vista More Vulnerable To Malware Than Windows 2000
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said.
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Four Microsoft Security Patches Due Next Week
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software next week.
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Intel, Sun: So Happy Together, When It Comes To Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The joint development efforts have been broader and deeper than anticipated, company executives reveal.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Speeds Past Six Million Mark
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Since its release on April 29, global sales of the Grand Theft Auto 'GTA IV' video game from Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) have surpassed six million units, with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Over the first day alone, GTA IV sales were approximately 3.6 million units with a retail value of $310 million worldwide.
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With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search
(AP)
 AP - Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.
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Free software takes on Microsoft Office
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Pierre Avignon is no pirate, but he does
not believe in paying for software. His computer is filled with
programs like Symphony -- a free suite that he downloaded from
an International Business Machines Corp website
(http://symphony.lotus.com).
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