| 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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Windows Std Serial Comm Lib for FoxPro 4.3 |
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Visual FoxPro RS232 serial port communications component library. Supports 256 ports, control multiple ports simultaneously, fully thread safe, modem control, ASCII/XMODEM/YMODEM. Supports virtual ports (USB to serial, Bluetooth serial), hardware/software flow control, serial line status & control. Use with all versions of Microsoft Visual FoxPro. Works w... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Windows Std Serial Comm Lib for Delphi 4.3 |
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Borland Delphi RS232 serial port communications component library. Supports 256 ports, control multiple ports simultaneously, fully thread safe, port re-entrant, modem control,ASCII/XMODEM/YMODEM. Supports virtual ports (USB to serial, Bluetooth serial), hardware/software flow control, serial line status & control. Use with all versions of Borland Delphi ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PrecisionID Data Matrix ActiveX Control 1.3 |
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The PrecisionID Data Matrix ActiveX Control and DLL easily creates barcodes in Microsoft Access, Excel and Visual Basic. The demo version is fully functional and contains documentation with implementation examples.Supports DataMatrix ECC200 with C40, Text, ASCII and Byte Compaction. The demo version is fully functional and contains documentation with impl... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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EditPad Lite 6.2.2 |
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EditPad Lite is a convenient, carefully designed text editor and
Notepad replacement. It has all the features a solid text editor needs
without any bloat.
You can open as many files at a time as you want, with no arbitrary
file size limit.Each file will have its own tab. Edit and convert
ANSI, ASCII and Unicode files; work with Unix and Mac files. Se... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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WebDrive 7.33 |
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WebDrive integrates FTP, WebDAV, SFTP or FrontPage servers into the Windows desktop by making your web server appear as a network drive. This allows you to use your favorite applications to edit files and save them directly to the server.The WebDrive client includes proxy server support and many advanced FTP features like resume interrupted download, Aut... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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NT Disk Viewer 1.0 |
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NT Disk Viewer allows users to display hard-disk data by physical sectors (in hex-code or ascii). Sectors can be copied and exported to files. The software supports FAT and NTFS file systems.Really useful when doing a "low-level" disk investigation and verification the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. NT Disk Viewer designed for developers ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Lipikar 3.0.0 RC2 |
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A unique but simple desktop authoring tool for Windows ANSI/ASCII fonts. It is independent of languages or keyboards and can be used to create passages of text in any language without caring about the keystrokes associated with a particular font. Lipikar is especially suitable for users of foreign (non-English) fonts.Features:A mouse move-sensitive zoom w... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Personal Stock Monitor GOLD 8.2 |
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Personal Stock Monitor Gold is a live stock ticker tape, multi-currency portfolio manager and advanced research assistant for individual investors. It combines delayed, real-time and streaming charts, quotes and news from around the world with an active portfolio manager.
Personal Stock Monitor Gold supports data sources covering major markets worldwi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Algolab Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit 2.97.53 |
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Vectorizer for CAD/CAM/GIS professionals, designers and illustrators. Available also as Raster to Vector SDK, ActiveX and Com Component. Converts, digitizes and refines architectural, mechanical, various technical drawings, maps, math graphs, graphics for books and journals and more from raster to vector.Digitizes math graphics. Also refines vector graphi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Finders Keepers 4.00.0 |
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Finders Keepers can search files, replace text, index entire hard drives for instant text retrieval, view or launch any found files, zip found files, and edit the found ASCII text files. Search files 4 ways: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. View, edit, or launch found files 6... |
| [License: Shareware, 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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