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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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Compare It! 4.0 |
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Powerful file compare and merge utility. Features: built-in editor with syntax highlighting, undo and wordwrap; highlights changes within lines; editing or fast by-difference merging; printing; html and text reports; zip support; Unicode support; search and replace with regular expressions; manual line matching support; convertors support for non-text fil... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Instant File Name Search 1.7 |
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Instant File Name Search is a free software especially designed for filename searches. Instantly find files by name, part of name or mask (*.xls, pic??.jpg, *shrek*.avi etc.) on your PC or LAN.You can use AND/OR/NOT operators to perform advanced searches. It is possible to manage several search zones: my files, shared docs, shared music etc. Instant File ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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DupeChecker 5.5 |
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DupeChecker is a file utility that search for the duplicated files and folders in your computer. You can find duplicate files for the same file name, file size, file content (byte for byte) and succesfully remove them from your pc. Your disk is full and you don't know what to do ? Just run the DupeChecker and you will see the result: a lot of identical fi... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FlexTk Express 2.0.20 |
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FlexTk is an advanced file management toolkit allowing one to search and classify files, scan file systems and apply rule-based, file organizing or data migration policies, analyze storage utilization, copy large amounts of files in a fault-tolerant way, identify duplicate files and free-up wasted storage space. All file operations are available through a... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Dupe Checker PRO 6.2 |
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Dupe Checker PRO shows you all duplicated files and Folders, and provides powerful commands to help you to automatically work with the unwanted and dupe copies. Dupe Checker PRO will help you copy, remove duplicate files, move dupe files and folders from place to place.Features:Unique Files listingPreview for Image, text and HTML filesShows all files and ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Beyond Compare 2.5.2 |
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Beyond Compare is a directory compare utility and a file compare utility wrapped in one. Synchronize files between laptop and PC, home and office, etc. Compare directory trees side-by-side with mismatches highlighted.Display text files side-by-side with changes highlighted. Great for merging changes to source code. Supports minor editing, Unicode text... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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TextMaster Split File 3.0 |
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software tool for splitting fixed or delimited text files into specified number of text files with the same structure. Features include defining number of files to split into based on number of lines each file should contain or fixed number of files regardless of the size. Each file can have header carried over if so required.
Destination directory as... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Directory Lister Pro 1.02 |
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Create and print listings of files from selected directories on hard disks, cd-roms, dvd-roms, floppys, usb storages and network shares. The listing can be in HTML, text or CSV format.You can print standard information like file name, extension, type, owner and attributes as well as EXE, DLL, OCX information like file version, description, company, MP3, D... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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SearchAnswer 1.0 |
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SearchAnswer is easy to use replacement for the Windows file finder. It primarily designed for users of the last versions of Windows where file find tools are fairly complicated (and therefore in certain cases works relatively slow) who want to simplify and speed up the file finding process. |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Sync 1.1 |
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Sync is a simple command-line utility for performing one-way directory or file synchronization. It synchronizes the specified target to match the specified source. Only the target is modified. Runs on any OS with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE 6+). Sync is free and open source software written in Java and released under the GNU GPL license (version 3).... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux,Macintosh] |
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Compact Flash Data Recovery 2.93 |
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Compact Flash Data Recovery Software: Download digital photo recovery software for deleted photo recovery, or to recover from corrupt or damaged compact flash cards and other digial photo storage media.Try if FREE to preview photo recovery results. Recovers from all types of digital photo cards, including Compact Flash, Smart Media, Memory Stick, SD, XD. ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Delete Duplicate File 3.2 |
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Duplicate File Finder is a powerful tool to locate file duplicates on your computer. It scans the computer and lists duplicate files based on byte by byte comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. It can find duplicates of any files: text, binary, music, video or images. Duplicate files can be deleted, moved, or copied. The list of duplicate files can be s... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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RenameWand 1.3 |
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Simple command-line utility for renaming files using an intuitive but powerful syntax (like regex, only much easier).Perform string operations (e.g. case conversions, rearrangements of substrings), arithmetic operations (e.g. on numbers in the file name), enumerate files (e.g. by name, size, time, or other attributes), insert time stamps, and many more! F... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux,Macintosh] |
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Handy File Tool 1.04 |
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Handy File Tool (HFT) is a very fast and simple file manager. It has
some internal utilities such as Renamer, Replacer and Finder. HFT has
utilities necessary for webmasters, programmers and anybody who is
concerned with computers. Imagine that you need to process hundreds of
files. It would take you many hours to do this manually. With HFT you
can s... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Clone Terminator 1.22 |
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Clone Terminator cleans your PC from unwanted identical files in no time. The secret of its efficiency lies in the innovative algorithm that makes scanning extremely fast and reliable, ensuring 100% accuracy.With Clone Terminator you can easily delete duplicate files that you never use. It will free some space on your drives and improve total system perfo... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Duplicate cleaner 1.2 |
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Duplicate Cleaner is a tool to assist in cleaning up the contents of their personal hard drive or corporate network. You'd be surprised just how many duplicate files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Photos, music, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos - you name it, if it appears twice on your system then Duplicate Clean... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Laplink PDAsync 4 |
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In an increasingly mobile world, synchronizing between multiple handhelds and cell phones can be complicated. PDAsync provides you with simple, one-click synchronization between your mobile devices and popular applications on your computer. With PDAsync, you can synchronize your contacts, calendar, tasks, emails, notes, and more.You can synchronize multi... |
[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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