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BCE buyers finalize funding
(Reuters)
Reuters - The buyers of telecoms company BCE Inc
are sticking to the agreed C$42.75 per-share purchase price and
have delivered the funding documents needed for the deal to go
ahead, the company said on Friday.
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Tax credit to save UBS from hefty loss
(Reuters)
Reuters - Battered Swiss bank UBS said on Friday
it should be saved from another hefty loss in the second
quarter by a large tax credit, giving a much-needed though
short-lived boost to its share price.
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World stocks slip again
(Reuters)
Reuters - World stocks slipped back towards this
week's five-month low on Friday as steadying oil prices failed
to erase concerns about slowing economic growth and rising
inflation, and as banking stocks came under renewed pressure.
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European banks need to raise up to $141 billion: Goldman
(Reuters)
Reuters - Goldman Sachs said the European banks sector
needs to raise about 60 billion to 90 billion euros ($94 to
$141 billion), or withhold one year of dividends, to reach an
aggregate Tier I ratio of 9 percent -- a level achieved by
European banks that have recapitalized recently.
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Kimmitt confident in economic fundamentals
(Reuters)
Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United
States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a
current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future.
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Kimmitt confident in economic fundamentals
(Reuters)
Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United
States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a
current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future.
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nVidia nTune 5.05.18.00 |
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NVIDIA nTune is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels. Overclock your system for highest performance or underclock it for near silent operation. All changes are performed within the Microsoft Windows interface – enabling full functio... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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Ovulation-Predict 1.0 |
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Ovulation-Predict is specially designed for those women who are practicing Natural Birth Control Method (also known as Fertility Awareness Method). The program works as a calendar which records and processes your the most important fertility signs: basal (waking) temperature, cervical fluid and cervix position (can be optional).... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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A Simple Unit Converter 0.9.9.00 |
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A customizable Program to convert Units, Converts Many Imperial Units to Metric and back again. It Converts Units in Temperature, Area,Mass, Volume, Length, Energy,Pressure and Time. Units can be edited, added and removed. |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Magic Enhancer Lite 1.0 |
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Using Magic Enhancer you can essentially improve your photos – adjust lightness, contrast and color balance. Magic Enhancer is perfect for enhancement of photos with lack of lightness.You can adjust contrast, emphasize fine details and make your photos more expressive. Convenient color temperature control allows fixing color balance defects easily. Plug-... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Weather Pulse 2.05 |
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Weather Pulse is a weather monitoring tool that that displays detailed weather information for selected US cities, as well as popular satellite images from around the globe. It includes weather alert options, 10 day forecast, hourly forecast, detailed forecast and more. The satellite images can be sent via email and also saved to file. Weather Pulse integ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows Vista] |
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HDD Observer 1.1 |
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HDD Observer is the smartest monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives.HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them: - Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature;Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon;Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation;Defragment fi... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ABF Value Converter 2.3 |
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ABF Value Converter is an application for measurement units conversion. This software easily converts various measurement values into any other possible ones. Inches to centimetres, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius... and more than 5000 other conversions, grouped according to categories. ABF Value Converter also calculates the values of many mat... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Servers Alive 6.0.2056 |
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Servers Alive is your 24/7 automatic server monitoring solution for guarding against server and process failures or attack. Script your own tests plus use our built-in functionality to automatically monitor critical server functions and processes including: PING (ICMP/TCP and IPX),
TCP Services, UDP Services, DNS, Windows Servers, Web Services, Databases... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Weather Watcher 5.6.14 |
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Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station.
Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily
forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only), and
weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions
can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather
Watcher sy... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ServersCheck Standard 6.8.2 |
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ServersCheck Standard Edition is an application for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability.The standard version can be used for free with up to 5 devices, which is adequate for personal use.It can monitor any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc.), check Oracle, MySQL, ODBC databases, trap SNMP values... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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| Software News |
'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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Nokia 6220 Smartphone Released
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Nokia 6220 classic design includes 3G connectivity, compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, Bluetooth capabilities, and a 5-megapixel camera.
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Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites.
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Three Startups To Solve SaaS Integration Problems
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Boomi, SnapLogic, and Cast Iron are rolling out new offerings designed to help companies integrate software running in the cloud with onsite software.
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Blogger Opinion: Why We Left NetSuite
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
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Krugle enhances code search appliance
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Krugle plans to ship next week an upgrade to its search appliance for enterprise software development projects, which makes it easier for teams of developers to maintain code.
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