| Business News |
Oil slumps on easing storm worry and dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil tumbled more than $5 on Tuesday,
pushing losses so far this week to about $10, as forecasters
said an Atlantic hurricane would steer clear of offshore oil
platforms and the greenback gained against other currencies.
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Alcoa's profit off but tops forecasts
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on
Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter
profit, lifting its shares, as higher aluminum prices and sales
volumes offset higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch sues InBev over takeover attempt
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc sued
InBev NV in an effort to stop its Belgian-Brazilian
suitor from taking any more steps to replace the U.S. brewer's
board of directors, which had rejected a $46.3 billion takeover
offer from InBev.
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Stocks rise on banks and lower oil
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose in another turbulent
session on Tuesday as a pullback in oil prices eased worries
about consumer and business spending, while financial shares
gained after the Fed chairman said he may keep open a lifeline
for banks.
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Traders plead guilty to foreign exchange scam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on
Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged
in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from
investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal
prosecutors said.
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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit
2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault
for taking out loans they couldn't afford.
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Liquid XML Studio (Free XML/XSD Editor) 1.0.4 |
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FREE Graphical XSD and XML Editor. A fully featured XML Development Studio, including; Graphical and Text based XML Schema Editor with Validation, XPath Expression Builder, Web Service Explorer, Html Docs From XSD Schema, Code Generation (30 day Trial) for C++, C#, Java, VB.Net & Visual Basic, XML Editor with Syntax Highlighting, XML/XSD Validation and I... |
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PHP Expert Editor 4.1 |
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PHP Expert Editor is an easy-to-use IDE for Windows with UTF-8 support. This editor supports Perl, Python, Java Script and other languages too. This Editor specially designed for PHP-masters and has a nice features for beginners and professional programmers. PHP Expert Editor has internal HTTP-server and Debugger to run, test and debug PHP scripts (you ca... |
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RecordForAll 1.2 |
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Easily record and edit audio files to create professional sounding podcasts. Supports MP3, WMA and WAV files. Files can be imported or recorded. Easily remove sound distortions and imperfections with drag and drop editing. Create sound effects, record music or interviews, edit and layer clips to provide commercial quality recordings.Music files can be mix... |
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Magic Music Factory 7.0.3.1 |
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Not only can you use Magic Music Factory to grab music from a CD, but also record audios, in virtually any format. Stop there, and burn your improved, converted audio files to disc. Or use the advanced audio editor to create your own music and songs that you can transfer to CDs, or share it with your friends in party.
Six applications are provided:
Audi... |
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Advanced TIFF Editor 2.5 |
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FAX, TIF, PDF, EPS, PS, AI, DCX viewer, editor and converter, offers you a full solution for viewing, editing, printing, saving, converting. Advanced TIFF Editor can convert one- and multipage files to standard TIFF/FAX format, jpeg, png, bmp, pcx, gif, dib, rle, tga, pdf, ps, eps and more. Advanced TIFF Editor can edit loaded images - extract, move, inse... |
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Power CD to MP3 Maker 1.12 |
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Power CD to MP3 Maker is a powerful and extremely ease-to-use tool for converting audio CD tracks to audio format MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG. It copies the audio digitally with excellent output quality and high speed. Power CD to MP3 Maker adopts advanced LAME Encoder and OGG codec, allows you to generate various qualities of MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG files. And m... |
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ASP.Net Audio 1.0 |
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The unique ASP.Net Audio Component allows you to add sound to ASP.Net websites. It allows you to deliver background music, broadcasts & sound effects with ease. ASP.Net Audio works with regular MP3 and WAV files.The output is 100% xhtml compliant. ASPNetAudio can work invisible in the background - or you can build a completely custom user interface usi... |
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Total Player 2.9 |
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Total Player is a strong and fast audio player for Windows empowered with all the features you may want. It has a playlist editor, ID3 multi-tagger, eight-band equalizer, skins and many more... all within an easy-to-use interface. A very simple setup will take only 1 minute to be ready for fun.
How it works:
To begin using the program at full capaci... |
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MP3 WMA Cutter 1.00 |
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MP3 WMA Cutter supports MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG batch cutting. With MP3 WMA Cutter, you can cut piece from a big audio file and then convert it to a MP3 or WAV or WMA or OGG file.
Cut with high precision and no quality is lost!
MP3 WMA Cutter is a real time encoding/decoding, no disk space will be used when cutting audio files.
There is a small id... |
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Art Player 3.6 |
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Art Player is a blazing and fast MPEG audio player for Windows that has just all the features you may want. It features a playlist editor, ID3 multitagger, eight-band equalizer, skins and more... all within an easy-to-use interface.. It has a very simple setup that will take only 1 minute to be ready for play.
How it works:
To begin using the progra... |
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| Software News |
EA says has complied with FTC request on Take-Two
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth
(AP)
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Sets Hosted-services Pricing, Irks Partners
(PC World)
PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete...
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
(PC World)
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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VMware warns on revenue, replaces CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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New Yahoo board might lure Microsoft back into talks
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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