| Business News |
Markets await Bernanke as central bankers gather
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke tackles financial stability in a key speech on
Friday but economists doubt he will provide solid clues about
future policy action to calm the credit crunch.
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Fannie and Freddie debt gains, deep share dive abates
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Investors' growing belief in the
likelihood of a federal bailout of home-funding giants Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac triggered a rally in the
debt prices of the two companies on Thursday while a steep fall
in their shares prices abated.
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Oil up 5 percent on global tensions, soft dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil prices rose nearly 5 percent on
Thursday, the biggest percentage gain in more than two months,
driven by rising tensions between the United States and energy
behemoth Russia.
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Three big banks settle with NY state over ARS
(Reuters)
Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
on Thursday said Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , Deutsche Bank
(DBKGn.DE) and Goldman Sachs have agreed to settlements
regarding their auction rate security sales practices.
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FINRA probes 40 firms on auction rate securities: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - Financial industry enforcement agents
will review the auction-rate debt operations of about 40 firms
industrywide starting next week, sources familiar with the
investigation said on Thursday.
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Trends & Innovations - Wednesday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The proportion of working-age Americans facing medical debt rose to 72 mil or 41% last year, up from 58 mil or 34% in '05, according to a new survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund. About half of those facing health debt have up to $2,000 in bills, while 12% have more than $4,000 in debt and another 12% have more than $8,000. The survey also found most of those with medical debt said they had exhausted their savings, with some also tapping into credit cards, home equity or cutting back on food or heat to cover health care costs.
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e-PDF To Word Converter 3.0 |
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PDF To Word Converter is a pdf conversion tool that allows for the batch processing of Adobe PDF documents to Word files, it is support Win98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 systems. PDF To Word Converter convert PDF to Word without requiring any Adobe product. The extracted content is saved to Word files where it can be easily searched, archived, repurposed, and... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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IconXP 3.15 |
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Use this powerful utility to edit icons and customize Windows. IconXP contains a variety of paint tools to let you edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color.For Windows XP icons, you can add impressive drop shadow and smooth effects. You can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, CUR, ANI, GIF, WMF, PNG, XPM, XBM, W... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PDFRecovery 1.0.0712 |
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PDFRecovery is data recovery program for damaged Portable Document Format files (.PDF). Is able to restore PDF objects, such as page tree, cross-reference table, images and many others.Creates a new PDF document. Supports Adobe PDF 1.5 and other specifications of format. |
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PhotoshopRecovery 1.0.0712 |
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PhotoshRecovery is a powerful data recovery software for damaged Adobe Photoshop image files (.PSD,.PDD). Recovered layers are saved in Windows Bitmap format (.BMP).Original dimensions and color depth are recovered for each layer, as well as color palette. Easy-to-use tool, no special user skills required.... |
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PDF Split Merge ActiveX 2.0.2007.901 |
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Split PDF files into multiple files by range
Merge multiple PDF files into one PDF
Standalone, doesn't depend on Adobe Acrobat or Reader
Provide demos in ASP, ColdFusion, VB, VB Script, Delphi, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net.Features:Split PDF files into multiple files by rangeMerge multiple PDF files into one PDFStandalone, doesn't depend on Adobe Acrobat or ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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AutoPlay me PRO 5.0.0 |
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Simply drag and drop your PowerPoint, Word or PDF file and then press the Write CD Now button and you are
done. AutoPlay me PRO does all the work. Not only does it add your file it also adds the correct viewer to the cd so
you now do not need to worry whether a viewer is installed on the target computer.... |
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PhotoZoom Pro 2 for Mac 2.2 |
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PhotoZoom Pro 2 is software for enlarging digital images, available for OS X 10.3+ and Windows.A summary of changes introduced in version 2:The most important new feature of PhotoZoom Pro 2 is our new revolutionary enlargement technology S-Spline XL. This is a major improvement on our patented and many times awarded S-Spline interpolation method. Compared... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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PhotoZoom Pro 2 2.2 |
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PhotoZoom Pro 2 is software for enlarging digital images, available for OS X 10.3+ and Windows.A summary of changes introduced in version 2:The most important new feature of PhotoZoom Pro 2 is our new revolutionary enlargement technology S-Spline XL. This is a major improvement on our patented and many times awarded S-Spline interpolation method. Compared... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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eZ 4.0.85 |
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eZ is a very fast and simple way to view, markup, combine and publish different file types such as AutoCAD DWG drawings, Adobe PDF, Google SketchUP 3D models, ARRIS, BuildersCAD, JPG, BMP, PNG, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, PLT and more. eZ is a phenomenal design and communication tool that makes it simple to view, work with and combine all kinds of common and... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Histogram Equalization plugin 1.0 |
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User-friendly Histogram Equilization plug-in for Adobe PhotoShop compatible plug-in hosts. It increases the contrast of images. |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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| Software News |
Microsoft enlists Seinfeld for ad campaign: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will star
in a $300 million marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp aimed
at burnishing the image of its computer operating system, a
person familiar with the effort said on Thursday.
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Photosynth Stitches Photos Into a 3-D Web Canvas
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's name has never been synonymous with photography, visual imaging or innovative online applications. But its release Wednesday of Photosynth -- a hybrid software/service that allows users to create 3-D environments by stitching multiple photographs together -- suggests the company has more than a few cards up its sleeve.
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Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Apple acknowledged that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G.
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Salesforce.com stock drops on cautious outlook
(AP)
AP - Salesforce.com Inc. kept its financial guidance within the range of analyst estimates Wednesday, disappointing investors who expected a more bullish forecast from one of the Internet's most popular software services.
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Microsoft Eases Server-Virtualization Restrictions
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has elected to jettison certain licensing restrictions that previously discouraged its customers from moving the software giant's server applications within a server farm at will.
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Google Invites Security Researchers To Debug Android
(NewsFactor)
 NewsFactor - In a move that could help it avoid an iPhone 3G-like software drama, Google wants bug hunters to test its Android mobile platform. On Monday, the Android Security Team posted a message to introduce itself to the security research and vulnerability communities.
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