| 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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Download Launchers & Shutdown Tools Software
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Ultra Shutdown 1.0 |
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Ultra shutdown is the software that can schedule shutdown, restart, hibernation, locking and stand by functions.It comes with a powerful scheduler.It also supports various windows optimization and privacy cleaner functionalities.It installs a toolbar on the desktop for quick shutdown and restart like functions.By this toolbar shutdown can happen in a sing... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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KeyManager 1.0 |
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KeyManager allows you to assign the following actions to regular or long presses of keys or key combinations: show a popup menu with actions, paste user-defined text into any application; launch a program, open files or folders; open a specific web page; press and block keys, key combinations, mouse buttons, emulate mouse wheel rotation; create an email; ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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EMCO Remote Shutdown Professional 2.1.1 |
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EMCO Remote Shutdown Professional, Allows an Adminisrator to Shutdown/Reboot/Power off/Logoff one or many computers.Features:Enumeration of machines with a click of a button.Get system information from machines for filtering.Job schedule, Once, Repeat by hour, Weekly, Monthly.Machines are dragged/dropped to the Machine Queue.Option to install service give... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Sumka quick launcher 2.2.1 |
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This is a quick program launcher with features: Panels of buttons. Each button can run program, open folder or document, open another panel. Button can open system folder, like Desktop or Start menu. Quick access icons. Q-Icons can be placed over all windows. Skins for panels and buttons. Launching groups of programs or documents. Configuration wizard. P... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ShutDown Timer 1.0 |
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ShutDown Down Utility - Provides Automatic,
Timer Based ShutDown, LogOff, Restart and Other Useful Actions in an easy way.
Easy ShutDown allows to create System Wide Hot Keys & Shortcut on Desktop to easily access the various
functions provided by the application.Trial Version Does not have any Nagging Pop-Ups.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Auto Power-on Shut-down 2.10 |
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An easy to use application that allows you to control your computer resume from power-off state (hibernation) or wake up your computer from sleep mode (stand by).Features:Allows you to control your computer auto start up and work in appointed time. It can wake your computer at specified date/time, even if the system has been closed in hibernation.Allows y... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Able Launch Bar 3.4 |
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Able Launch Bar is a window similar to the Quick Launch bar. This is Application Desktop Toolbar with built-in Windows Explorer. Able Launch Bar offers a system of shortcuts far more superior than Quick Launch. Arranged into folders, they are just the same as folders in the Explorer window. Able Launch Bar support for Drag & Drop helps quickly fill the fo... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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RoboShutdown 2.1 |
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RoboShutdown is a utility software that helps you automatically shutdown, power off, run program, and perform many other tasks at any time you specify.Features:Automatically shutdown or reboot, log off, lock session, close monitor, standby, hibernate, etc at any specified time. Other automated tasks include: Run program, open files, open web site, show me... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Lomsel Shutdown 1.04 |
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Lomsel Shutdown is a small system utility that can automatically perform various frequently used operations like shutdown or restart your computer, disconnect your current dialup connection, hibernate workstation, etc. It also provides fast access to these operations through system tray icon with popup menu. The utility has frendly and a nice looked inter... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Ez OFF 4.5 |
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Ez OFF helps you to control Computer ON / OFF Time on your or your children PC. It will auto shutdown computer and will keep your PC off for as long as you schedule it (minutes, hours or days). Ez OFF has time accumulation feature, system time protection and allows to create multiple schedules.Features:Allows to Shut Down, Reboot, Lock Down, Log OFF, Susp... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Active Task Manager 1.70 |
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A compact automaton tool to set up and run unattended tasks. ATM helps you to manage your frequent tasks and starts them in background. It starts the .exe, .bat and .com files, shuts down the system and displays text-sound reminders at scheduled moments or manually. The flexible scheduling capability allows you either to set time interval between the cons... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ID Startup Cleaner 1.2 |
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ID Startup Cleaner is an essential utility that provides the opportunity to control, manage and optimize items in Windows Startup. It also protects your computer at Startup against harmful applications by automatically removing or stopping dangerous applications.Features:Monitors startup applicationsStops or starts Startup programsProtects your PC against... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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UnFreeze 1.4 |
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Are You Tired Of Windows Freezing Up And Their Close Button Not Working? With UnFreeze, Just Hit A Customizable HotKey (Ctrl+Shift+Delete By Default) To Make The Window Disappear Instantly!Also, Set HotKey To Shutdown Computer. Runs In Compact Tray (Minimized) Mode Too. |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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RSHUT PRO 2.8.1.2 |
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The most computers today support power management allowing turn off and turn on computer with software.
More and more computers joined into local networks or connected to the Internet.
RSHUT Pro is the software solution that uses all this power to automate typical shutdown processes, saving your time and make this work for you. It can work with yo... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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NLauncher 1.6 |
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NLauncher is a desktop organizing utility that enables users to free the desktop from icons, folders and files by moving them to the multilevel pop-up menu. The menu can be placed on one side of the desktop or split into left and right panels and placed on both sides. The NLauncher menu is a one-click way for launching any user-defined applications, openi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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File Drawer 1.0.1.3 |
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IKIC File Drawer is used to quick start programs, quick open files, quick open folders, quick open website, just do these with File Drawer. Very fast and convenience just by drop your target into File Drawer. It is the best quick start product.
why you should use File Drawer?
First, when you want to open a file in a deep folder, it will take you mu... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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QiiNinja 0.3.8.4 |
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This ninja is here to help you. It is quick, intelligent and efficient. Wastes no time and almost never can be seen!
Waits
in the dark until you invoke him just to listen to your command and
hides to finish the job given fast, unseen and in deadly silence.
The name is Qii, QiiNinja!... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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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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