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House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.
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Amazon Q2 net profit doubles, sales up 41 percent
(Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday
quarterly net income doubled on a 41 percent rise in revenue,
helped by higher operating profit margins.
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Fed says price pressures gain, growth slackens
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The United States faced increasing
inflationary pressures in recent weeks amid slowing economic
growth, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, as it described
conditions in some areas as "grim," "morose" or "bleak."
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Pulte Homes second-quarter loss narrows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Pulte Homes Inc posted a
smaller quarterly loss on Wednesday, but said buyer confidence
remained shaky.
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Wall Street rises on oil drop, housing plan optimism
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial
shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price
of oil fell.
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Waiters pick up part of LongHorn's labor costs
(AP)
 AP - With the cost of everything from air conditioning to whipped cream rising, many restaurants have been raising prices. LongHorn Steakhouse is passing on part of the tab to its servers.
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News Screensaver 1.3 |
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News Screensaver allows you to always have the most recent news, weather forecasts and stock quotes on your computer screen. The screensaver supports all RSS, RDF and Atom formats. The program is shipped with the set of more than 100 links to variously themed news feeds, such as Top News, Business, Science, Sport, Regional, Technology, Industries, Health.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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News Ticker 1.1 |
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A newsticker applet that you can use to feed news from your website, disply cnn news, have the text scroll, add special sound effects, and more! A great newsticker application to add to your blogs, better than DHTML, and you can use it to display stock quotes, sports news, regular news plus much more! Check it out today!... |
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DTAlpha FREE |
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DTAlpha: An application designed to deliver the latest business news/info to your desktop via headlines, streaming audio & video, & instant alerts. Quick Access icons allow you to quickly get to your favorite sites with one click. Customizable options include adding your own RSS feeds and Quick Access icons, changing look and feel, and more. News provided... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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FastTrack News 2.0 |
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FastTrackNews is a free portable RSS feed reader, Blog client and news aggregator. The program reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check mass media websites for updates and can be used as news and blog browser. Once subscribed to a feed, the program is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. You ca... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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News Ticker Application Bar 1.15 |
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This news ticker constantly updates news feeds from the Internet and displayes headlines right on your desktop. News ticker software docks to the top or the bottom of your screen and displays news headlines from Yahoo or MSN in a form of a scrolling line. Its features include custom colors, adjustable scrolling speed, selectable news categories and positi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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RSScrawler Desktop RSS Newsticker 2.0.9 |
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RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" a common XML standard that allows receiving free news sources such as headlines, breaking news, finance data, weather information or blogs on demand over the Internet.RSScrawler displays your favorite RSS news feeds as a flicker-free ticker bar on your Windows Desktop. RSScrawler keeps you always informed in the ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FolderNews 1.1 |
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The user interface is considered comfortable when the user has no additional questions about how to do anything while fulfilling some task. FolderNews is an attempt to make reading news comfortable. FolderNews allows you to create folders and fill them with news.The main idea of FolderNews is that no special software for reading news is needed. Instead, t... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Tidy Favorites 3.4 |
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Are you tired of searching for sites in a long Favorites list? If so, this program is for you. It allows you to arrange all the sites in the Favorites. Your Favorites looks neat, and you can easily and quickly find any site you want.For example, you can create a special "News" category, and when opening the Favorites you will see a "News" section (instead... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Bopup Messenger 5.2.2.5104 |
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Secure instant messenger designed to communicate over LAN and
enterprise-size networks. This clear, easy to use and light-weight IM
client offers a set of corporate features and answers most of the
business needs you may have. The messenger is based on a fully managed
client/server platform which provides full IM logging, user grouping,
offline and s... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Business-in-a-Box 4.0.14 |
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Business-in-a-Box is the ultimate document-writing tool. Including over 1,200 templates of essential contracts, agreements, letters, board resolutions, plans, proposals, policies, checklists and spreadsheets, Business-in-a-Box simplifies and accelerates all your writing tasks. Simply fill in the blanks and you'll be ready to do business in minutes! ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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