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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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Prof Shutdown 3.4 |
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Is a remote administration tool for enterprise-wide and small office networks. It lets you run or schedule shutdown, reboot, hibernate, sleep, log off and wakeup jobs on a local or multiple remote machines.The jobs are executed automatically at a specified time. Prof Shutdown has the following key features: simple interface, "Add New Task" wizard, schedul... |
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Vista Toolbar Icons 2006.2 |
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Vista Toolbar Icons is a set of splendid stock icons carried out in the style of MS Windows Vista. Icons are thoroughly designed and shine with superb quality so they will indeed ornament your interface and make it look up-to-date and respectable.With Vista Toolbar Icons you'll give your interface a new, fresh look and put an emphasis on reliability of yo... |
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OnLAN Messenger 3.5.0 |
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OnLAN Messenger messaging service is a client-server multi-user application for instant messaging and file exchange (instant messenger). This product has been developed for using within corporate networks (enterprise instant messenger), therefore its functions and settings are primarily meant for handling the needs of organizations of all sizes, providing... |
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WinSent 1.1.10.128 |
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Instant messenger intended for use within local area networks (home, office, enterprise, corporate LANs). Allows to send and receive messages using computer network name, user login, nickname. Sends broadcast messages using workgroup or domain name.WinSent is fully compatible with WinPopup and Windows NT Messenger Service (net send). Does not require dedi... |
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Network Traffic Monitor Analysis Report 6.5 |
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Packet Analyzer enterprise CAPSA edition is an advanced network monitoring, analysis and reporting tool for network security, performance and troubleshooting. It captures and analyzes traffic realtime, present comprehensive and graphic reports for technical and business purposes. All information is displayed in simple English with easy to use interface fo... |
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Forte CRM Professional 1.5.0 |
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Forte CRM Professional - advanced Knowledge Management, with the power to grow. With the same features as the Enterprise versions in standalone form, Forte CRM Professional can automate your relationship procedures and can grow in features, customizability, and scalability. It includes a PIM, email, notes, document engine, query builder, report writer, an... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Offline Explorer Enterprise 4.8 SR1 |
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Offline Explorer Enterprise - download whole sites, online image galleries, forums and media streams from the widest variety of supported Web sites. The most powerful edition of Offline Explorer can download the maximum possible amount of files (up to 100 million per Project) and also be operated from other custom-developed applications using OLE Automati... |
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PDF Vista 6.00 |
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PDF Vista installs as a virtual printer. You can print from virtually any Windows application to this PDF Vista printer, and get a press-ready, high quality, searchable, color PDF file.
Features:
Create PDF file from any Windows application that can print
Convert to PDF from other formats
Set PDF paper size
Define custom paper size
Specify page ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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APSW Budget Planner V4 Enterprise 3.3.19.0 |
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Not only a budget planner for static or regular incomings and outgoings, but also an 'actual' or 'real-time' budget planner. This new personal finance manager encompasses all your known budgeting items as well as those budget items you don't plan for or are not paid on a regular basis. Compare your static budget planner against what you are actually spend... |
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WMI Explorer 1.00 |
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WMI is an acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation. WMI is the Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) - a new management technology that allows software to monitor and control managed resources throughout the network. Such managed resources include hard drives, file systems, settings of operating system, processes, serv... |
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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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