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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 profit, sales above view and shares rise
(Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc said on
Wednesday quarterly profit doubled and sales grew 41 percent,
indicating to Wall Street that many cost-conscious shoppers are
heading online to save money in a tough economy.
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SemGroup gets court OK for initial bankruptcy motions
(Reuters)
Reuters - SemGroup LP, an Oklahoma-based oil
trading services company, on Wednesday said it received
approval from the Bankruptcy Court for its initial motions
related to its bankruptcy.
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Microsoft exec who led Yahoo bid leaving company
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's
largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of
Yahoo Inc , is leaving the software maker.
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China's Zhongxing in talks with GM, FAW: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - China's Hebei Zhongxing Automobile Co
is in talks with General Motors and major Chinese
automaker FAW Group to explore opportunities for cooperation,
including equity ties, a source close to the situation said on
Thursday.
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Sluggish Economy Slows 'Somewhat' As Oil Squeezes Spending, Fed Reports
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The economy has slowed "somewhat" as rising energy prices and the credit crunch force consumers to cut back, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
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Tux Paint 0.9.19 |
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A free, Open Source drawing program for young children (ages 3 and up). It has an easy to use and fun interface. Along with standard drawing tools, like brush, lines, shapes and eraser, Tux Paint also has multiple levels of undo and redo, a collection of "Magic" special effect tools, a "Rubber Stamp" (a.k.a. "Sticker-Book") tool for placing pre-drawn sh... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Children Screensaver 2.0 |
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Screensaver displaying the beauty of life and our most valuable asset - our children. |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Parental Scanner 1.0 |
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Are there pornographic videos and pictures on your children's computer? You don't know, but you suspect there might be some. Your children can hide pornographic files really deeply so that you never find out about them.Despite your children's efforts, you can quickly find out whether your children store such files and where they store them.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AgataSoft TimeLock 1.0 |
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This program will help parents whom all the day at job to limit the children from a computer, and to allow playing on a computer the certain time in day. Upon termination of time, the computer will be blocked, or the user will be notified that time has ended. To unblock a computer it is possible having entered the correct password.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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AgataSoft TimeLock 1.4 |
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This program will help parents whom all the day at job to limit the children from a computer, and to allow playing on a computer the certain time in day. Upon termination of time, the computer will be blocked, or the user will be notified that time has ended.To unblock a computer it is possible having entered the correct password.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Child Punisher 1.1 |
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Application which will help you (parents) to limit time spent by your children at the computer. The functions of this software include not only shutting down your machine after particular time period but also restricting some applications.
Program can:deny Task Manager (so, your children can not shut down this program);trace of changing system time ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Magic Whiteboard 2.1 |
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Magic Whiteboard is an incredible drawing entertainment, which brings a lot of fun to your kids and the entire family. Magic Whiteboard can be used in a home PC network with up to 5 computers, so you and kids can draw pictures all together simultaneously.This fascinating and simple in use program has colorful graphics and animated cartoon characters. Magi... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Learn to Draw for Beginners 1.0 |
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A fun and interactive software program for those who want to learn how to draw. It offers 25 drawing exercises for your drawing practice. Best of all, the program will act as your personal art teacher - it will check each of your drawings and indicate which areas need further improvement. You don't need any art supplies to start - just install the program... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Child Protector Pro 1.10 |
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Child Protector Pro is a great new software, designed to limit your children's access to the computer.
Because the children of nowadays are very familiar with computers, it's very hard to create a software that can oblige them to respect a timetable defined by the parents. There are many things that must have be in view, otherwise we can realize that you... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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EDraw Organizational Chart 2.1 |
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EDraw Organizational Charts is a new organization chart drawing software, which creates org chart and business charts with minimum time loss for you. Support basic flowcharts, organizational charts, business charts, hr diagram, work flowchart, programming flowchart and network design diagrams. Easy to use drawing tools, many pre-drawn org chart templates... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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