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Citigroup aims to sell $400 billion of assets
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Citigroup Inc , the largest
U.S. bank, said on Friday it aims to shed $400 billion of
assets -- nearly 20 percent of its total -- over the next two
to three years to become more efficient and profitable.
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AIG loss, oil, drug firms rattle investors
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks fell on Friday after American
International Group , the world's largest insurer,
reported a record $7.8 billion quarterly loss, rekindling
concerns about financial services companies.
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AIG says rating cuts to raise costs
(Reuters)
 Reuters - American International Group
said on Friday two rating agency downgrades will likely
increase funding costs for some of its businesses, and has
required it to post $1.6 billion more in collateral.
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Oil ebbs a little from record high
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil hit a new peak above $126 on Friday,
the fifth straight session of record gains, in a market given
an additional spur by tight supplies of diesel.
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U.S. crude futures jump more than $2, above $126
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. crude futures jumped more than $2
to a record high above $126 on Friday, fueled by fund buying
and surging distillate prices on both sides of the Atlantic,
according to traders.
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SMBs Remain Bullish Despite Weak Economy
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Small businesses are confident that bleak economic conditions will pass without their being adversely affected by the economic downturn, according to a new study of 250 small-business owners. Or, at the very least, they're keeping a stiff upper lip about the downturn and the prospects for a speedy recovery.
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Easy MP3 Joiner 2.9 |
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Tired of looking for small and easy-to-use software for merging your audio files without quality loss? Need to create a cool and groovy non-stop party track without buying expensive equipment and professional audio editing applications? Are you a beginning musician in search of a simple tool to organize your records into a presentation? Puzzled by a way ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Icemark 1.2 |
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Using Icemark you can effortlessly identify your images from many others. Just add your personal watermark to the image, so you always know which images are yours. The added watermark is invisible and its detection is possible only by having the key, which only you have. Icemark is necessary for everyone, who works with graphics images and wants to prote... |
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FaceDub 2.07 |
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FaceDub is the definitive headswapping and blending tool that brings fun to your photos. FaceDub makes bodyswaps fast and easy without all of the drudgery of digging through repetative tasks in other photo editors. FaceDub also allows you to upload to FaceDub.com, the premier headswapping sharing site, where you can organize your Dubs and use anywhere. Fa... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FotoTagger 2.10 |
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FotoTagger is a free software tool for annotating JPEG images quickly
and easily. Place on an image movable annotation notes that point to
individual elements visualized on the image. Identify people and
objects. Mark notable details. Comment specific objects. Instantly find
a particular person, object, or comment among image collections. Do you
use ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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KB Piano 2.2.5 |
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KB Piano will turn your computer into a piano and more. Easily create song with multiple instruments (guitar, bass, drums, and vocals from your microphone), even if you don't know music theory. Once finished, export them to midi and wave files and listen to them in most audio player software. If you want to record your own songs, give KB Piano a try !Feat... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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Photo Manager 2008 Standard 1.0 |
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Preview, organize, edit, and print your digital photos with Photo Manager 2008. Find images on your computer and remove duplicates.Features:Browse Folders and Preview ImagesPrint PhotosEdit ImagesAssign Keywords, Ratings and Categories to ImagesSearch in DatabaseSearch for Images on Local Discs and Network DrivesSearch for DuplicatesManage PhotosEXIF Prop... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FastPictureViewer 1.0.26.0 |
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FastPictureViewer is a lean and mean, minimalist picture viewer allowing users to review and rate digital images faster by taking advantage, when available, of the power of multicore processors and the speed of DirectX graphic accelerators, all working together to speed up photo viewing to unprecedented levels. The software features Adobe XMP rating, Wind... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Macvide FlashVideo Converter 1.0f |
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FlashVideo Converter allows you convert any Adobe (Macromedia) Flash (*.swf, *.flv files) to video movie mp4 (iPod Video), MOV, 3GP, ASF/WMV, mpeg files. The converting process allowing human interaction on Flash content during conversion. You can use FlashVideo Converter for different purposes: Create your own video or dvd collection by converting with F... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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Ots CD Scratch 1200 Free 1.00.044 |
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CD Scratch is a FREE, funky and incredibly fun "Virtual Turntables CD Player" performing the seemingly impossible... Play two songs from the same CD at the same time - one forwards and one in reverse! Scratch a CD track back and forth like a record, or listen to your favorite CD automatically mixed between the turntables. Perfect for music lovers and aspi... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Image Mender 1.0 |
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Image Mender - the program allows you to remove any lines or blemishes on your images and it also helps you to remove larger marks, logos or any other undesirable elements. Image Mender is easy to use. The clear and user-friendly interface of the program enables you to work. You just need to highlight the part of the image you would like to correct, and t... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Easy Banner Creator 1.2 |
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Easy Banner Creator is an easy-to-use tool for creation of animated or static banners in seconds without graphic skills. Your own banners will make your website successful and will attract new visitors.
Animation effects are components the number of which will be more and more with new versions of the program. Version 1.0 contains the animation effect "R... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Extreme Thumbnail Generator 1.11 |
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Extreme Thumbnail Generator is the best way to create attention grabbing web thumbnail galleries that stand out from thousands of boring look-alikes. ETG is jam-packed with unique templates and powerful tools for creating cool web galleries. The program can be used for a variety of applications - online catalogs, goods and services presentations, pictur... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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SolveigMM Video Splitter 2.1 |
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SolveigMM Video Splitter is a fast tool to losslessly split, cut or trim MPEG-2 AVI, WMV, ASF, MP3, and WMA files. Batch file support is included.Features:Based on SolveigMM Video Editing EngineSupports MPEG-2 files - (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.vob, *.ts )Supports AVI files - (*.avi )Supports Windows Media files - (*.asf, *.wma, *.wmv, *.wm)Supports MPEG Audio fil... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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My Screen Recorder 2.66 |
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Record your PC desktop screen activity to an AVI file. This advanced screen capturing tool can capture anything you see on the computer screen, including the entire desktop, windows, menus, cursors, and even video with sound.You can use My Screen Recorder to demonstrate features of a web site or program, for training, or any other task that requires show... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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DivX 6.8 |
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DivX for Windows includes the DivX Codec,
DivX Player, DivX Web Player and the DivX Converter, providing all you
need to create, play, manage and burn DivX videos. |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Batch Picture Protector 1.2 |
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Batch Picture Protector is a powerful and easy-to-use batch image watermarking tool. It protects your digital images and artwork by adding professional transparent watermarks that combine text, illustrations and graphics. This watermarking software is particularly useful to designers, artists and banner makers who send artwork proofs to customers for eval... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Macvide iPod Converter 1.0f |
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Macvide iPod Converter for Mac is a powerful application developed for Apple Mac Operation System, can convert video and audio files such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, VOB, DivX, XviD, AAC, AC3, MP3, etc. to formats supported by iPod MP4, with fast speed and versatile functions. This converter convert video to MP4 for playback on iPod (iPod touch,iPod Clas... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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| Software News |
Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft.
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Flomerics surges after rejects Mentor cash bid
(Reuters)
Reuters - Shares in British engineering software
firm Flomerics Group surged on Friday after rejecting a
buyout offer from larger U.S. rival Mentor Graphics, saying it
would explore interest from several other parties.
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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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