| 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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3D Wonderful Flowers 1.0.0 |
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Admire lovely flowers in your computer. Bouquet of camomiles and cornflowers will improve your mood and flapping multicolored butterflies flying around recall you about relax. This screensaver is created for you! |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Aston Secure Desktop 1.9.6 |
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Aston Secure Desktop is a security build of Aston 1.x branch. It possesses all the features of regular Aston shell, but constrains the ability to alter the admin-defined settings.
This restricted version is highly recommended to Internet-cafes and kiosks administrators, colleges and companies authorities, and parents willing to find their Desktop setti... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Easy Hotkeys Manager 1.5 |
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Easy Hotkeys Manager - powerful hotkey manager, which helps you manage a wide range of system hotkeys
Easy Hotkeys Manager is a powerful and easy-to-use hotkey manager. It provides you with additional means to control applications, windows, and other system components.
For example, you can assign keyboard shortcuts for quick launch of applications, so... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Magic Images Screen Saver 2.0 |
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This screen saver rotates amazing stereogram images. A stereogram is a two-dimensional picture with embedded depth information for simulating a three-dimensional representation. In contrast to other methods for creating spatial depth (e.g. red/green method, polarisation filters) viewing stereograms does not require any further tools like special glasses o... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Tabbery 1.0 (beta) build268 |
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Tabbery is a new way to organize work by any subject into virtual tabs on your desktop, which you can use later or share with anyone. Each tab works like a virtual desktop workspace, containing any collection of windows and their contents (websites, word processing documents, photos, video, spreadsheets etc.). When a Tab is being saved, the entire worksp... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Mad Clock of Life 2007 4.6.2007 |
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Very Funny and Cool Clock with a lot of interesting facts about space, body, phisycs, earth and many more. You can set a World's Time Begin as Christ and also Buddha and many another World's Begins. Skins. Now Mad Clock of Life can be triangle and and spherical and any another. With Glass and Mechanism Rendering. Box Rendering you can get a lot of cool cl... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Handwizard 2.1 |
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Handwizard Is Your Hand Wizard Mode. Handwizard provides automated cursor moving and command entry by mouse steps. Handwizard is based on such inventions as "Cursor displacement control method" and "Data input method", which define its purpose and functionality. Handwizard gives the user: time and health savings due to work with the mouse, and new level o... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Xaml icon Viewer Beta 1.0 |
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Xaml icon Viewer Beta 1.0
Xaml viewer Beta 1.0 ready for download,
Free software its for
Preview xaml files
Organize your xaml files
Build Resource dictionaries from xaml files
Edit Resource dictionaries
Update Resource dictionaries
Drag Drop support ,You can drag drop resource item dictionary
You can drag drop multiple resources while pr... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Multi-Timer Ultimate 1.0 |
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Desktop timer program with unlimited timers in a flow layout interface. They can count up, count down (max. 1,000 hours or about 41
days) and run in alarm clock mode (daily, on work days, on a specific weekday or date). The program features an integrated, sortable
and printable timer list with Excel export capability, that shows start time, stop t... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Desktop Picture Frame 2.1.1 |
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You love your family.
You are crazy about your pet.
You have some memorable nature view photos.
You put them on the desktop as wallpaper, but you can not see them while working?
You have made a stylish slide-show with your favorite images, but find that it interferes with your work?
Now you have a simple and fast way to view your favorite images on t... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Pixelshop 5.1 |
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With Pixelshop, you can create and edit existing icons (ICO), cursors (CUR) and animated cursors (ANI), in all sizes and formats, including the Windows XP Alpha format. A full set of editing tools and effects are included to help you create any icon. A built-in utility makes it easy to convert pictures to icon format, plus included tools allow you to cust... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PerfectClock 2007 Professional Edition 2.7 |
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PerfectClock 2007 is a skinnable, flexible, fast and highly customizable program displaying World-Time clocks on your desktop. With Wallpaper Clock support. Using PerfectClock 2007 you will not waste time on time conversion calculations. Each clock can show specific time-zone local time. Clocks can stay on top of other windows, even on top of Task Manager... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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DTAlpha FREE |
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DTAlpha: An application designed to deliver the latest business news/info to your desktop via headlines, streaming audio & video, & instant alerts. Quick Access icons allow you to quickly get to your favorite sites with one click. Customizable options include adding your own RSS feeds and Quick Access icons, changing look and feel, and more. News provided... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ABF Wallpaper Changer 3.80 |
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Tired of boring desktop wallpaper? Want to try something new? Want to have an adjustable calendar highlighting holidays, birthdays and other important dates on your desktop? Want to download new high-quality wallpapers from the Internet? Then ABF Wallpaper Changer is for you!Using ABF Wallpaper Changer you can:Place a flexible adjustable calendar on your ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Icon Catcher 4.2.31 |
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Icon Catcher 4.0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor that can scan over 3000 icons in one minute, supports 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. Extended filtering options let the users set the color palette or size or combination of other parameters to make search for necessary icons easy and fast. The program extracts icons from any... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PerfectClock Standard Edition 2.6 |
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PerfectClock 2007 lets you to know the time in any place all over the world without any calculations - each clock can show time in it's own time-zone time. Clocks can stay on top of other windows, even on top of Task Manager and Screen Saver. Clocks can be Grouped to move them together, Locked to avoid occasional movement or Hidden.... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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CubeDesktop 1.2 |
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CubeDesktop helps you to reduce clutter and better organize your
windowed applications by providing up to six virtual desktops which you
can manage using innovative 2D and 3D effects.Features:Virtual desktops3D effectsMoving windows between desktopsLive previewWindow organizationDesktop customizationSwitch between tasks faster than ever beforeHot corner... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: 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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