| Business News |
Oil slumps on easing storm worry and dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil tumbled more than $5 on Tuesday,
pushing losses so far this week to about $10, as forecasters
said an Atlantic hurricane would steer clear of offshore oil
platforms and the greenback gained against other currencies.
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Alcoa's profit off but tops forecasts
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on
Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter
profit, lifting its shares, as higher aluminum prices and sales
volumes offset higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch sues InBev over takeover attempt
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc sued
InBev NV in an effort to stop its Belgian-Brazilian
suitor from taking any more steps to replace the U.S. brewer's
board of directors, which had rejected a $46.3 billion takeover
offer from InBev.
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Stocks rise on banks and lower oil
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose in another turbulent
session on Tuesday as a pullback in oil prices eased worries
about consumer and business spending, while financial shares
gained after the Fed chairman said he may keep open a lifeline
for banks.
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Traders plead guilty to foreign exchange scam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on
Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged
in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from
investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal
prosecutors said.
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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit
2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault
for taking out loans they couldn't afford.
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MakeGIF helps you to create GIF-file from command line in batch mode. This program is visual command line processor. You can use pictures created by MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of others programs. MakeGIF has optimization tools for making your GIFs smaller. You can add hidden signatures to your GIF - files to protect them from unauthorized use on... |
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Longtion GIF Animator 5.0 |
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Create or edit animated GIF files for your Web pages easily. With its special features you can optimize, prepare GIF files for your Web page also. GIF Animator can handle any type of GIF animation; it provides high compression and great quality for your animated GIF files.GIF Animator is a GIF animation editor, you can use a built-in image editor or any s... |
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Easy Watermark Creator is an easy-to-use tool for adding visible watermarks to your pictures and photos.Reasons to use Easy Watermark Creator:protection from unauthorized use of your pictures on the Web;as an image constructor by adding files with transparent backgrounds;to draw texture on your pictures;to render your pictures.Program features:loads sourc... |
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Photobie is a complete image editing software customized for photo retouching. Photobie is free to use and to distribute. Unlike other commercial and free image editing softwares, Photobie is more like a homemade cookie, which has much more flavor. Photobie developers intend to build an easy-to-use and feature-packed tool for graphics amateurs. Although, ... |
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FlashDWG DWG Flash Converter 1.29 |
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FlashDWG let you Flash your AutoCAD DWG files. FlashDWG is a DWG to Flash converter, is the best way to share and publish AutoCAD DWG files on the web.
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Converts photographs of people into cartoons and portraits. It is a handy tool both for artists and those who don’t know how to draw. You need to try to see. Load your favorite high-resolution photo, click the button, and your caricature is ready.Use it to sign emails and letters, make greeting cards and party announcements, or illustrate a book or a pap... |
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PhotoS converts photographs into line drawings. You need to try to see. Load your favorite high-resolution photo, click the button, and you are the author of a fine line drawing, often indistinguishable from an artist work. PhotoS is a handy tool both for artists and those who don’t know how to draw.Line art will enhance your photo album and make your web... |
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Cool Paint Pro Image Editing 2.6.0.1 |
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Cool Paint is a painting software for drawing and image editing with more than 40 realistic painting tools and a vast picture gallery containing 1,000 pictures. It provides various paint brushes such as pencil, airbrush, watercolor brush, mark pen, crayon, and pigment tube.In addition, you can create special effects on your images and photos with many fan... |
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DWG DWF Converter AutoDWG 2.48 |
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AutoDWG DWG DWF Converter a batch converter converts DWG/DXF to DWF without need of AutoCAD. It supports AutoCAD version R9 to latest version AutoCAD 2007.Features:Convert DWG/DXF to DWF file directly, no AutoCAD needed;Support dwg file version from R9 to R2005;DWG to DWF conversion;DXF to DWF conversion;Command line supported (need version 1.1 or later);... |
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Pixel Editor 2.1 |
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Transferring images from the depths of your fantasy to your website or cellular phone? It's easy! Pixel Editor is a smart software tool for the job. It supports a variety of graphic formats and has specialized tools to process images in color depths up to 16 million colors. You'll love its clearly-structured interface and great capabilities.Features:Make ... |
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SATextureLab 1.4 |
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Fast texture generator SoftAtlas TextureLab may help in 3D, game development, web-site design and just for fun. Created textures may serve as a source of new ideas. The program generates original textures using specific algorithms (fractals, chaotic maps, conformal mappings and more). It provides tools to create own exclusive unique textures.The only your... |
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Image Constructor 1.5 |
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Image Constructor helps you to create pictures in form of texts and small images over some background with picture or gradient fill and import them to graphical files.
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Animate Me! creates GIF and AVI animations on the base of predefined effects (such as moving objects, small particles, running text, wave, shake, appearance, explosion, changing brightness).Program features:loads background picture for created animation from BMP, JPEG, PSD, PCX, PNG and GIF- files;manages the list of animation effects and calls edit dialo... |
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| Software News |
EA says has complied with FTC request on Take-Two
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth
(AP)
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Sets Hosted-services Pricing, Irks Partners
(PC World)
PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete...
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
(PC World)
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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VMware warns on revenue, replaces CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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New Yahoo board might lure Microsoft back into talks
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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