| 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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Audio Wizard Pro Ear Trainer 1 |
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Ann video converter 2.0 |
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Ann Video Converter is a professional, easy to use and super powerful video convert tool and a leader in the world of modern video compression. Almost all video formats can be converted. It can convert all video formats to AVI IPOD PSP MPEG MOV WMV RMVB DVD video files etc, and extract audio to MP3 files.
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River Past Audio Converter 7.2.4 |
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Easy-to-use and fast batch batch audio converter/extractor. Convert from DVD, AC-3, AIFF/AIFC, APE, AU, FLAC, M4A, MKA, MP3, MPA, MPC, OFR, OGG, RA/RAM, SD2, SND, TTA, WAV, WMA, or extract audio from 3GPP/3GPP2, ASF, AVI, VCD DAT, DivX, DV, IVF, MKV, QuickTime MOV, MP4, MPG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2,), OGM, RM, DVD VOB, WMV, XviD, to AIF, AVI, MKA, MP3, OGG Vorbis,... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Frame Photo Editor 1.0.0 |
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With Frame Photo Editor, you can easily enhance your photo effects by blending your digital photos onto another image. The photo will be masked as special effect which you can select from a lot of masks that Frame Photo Editor provides.You can also easily add cool frame, pretty flowers and cartoon clips onto your pictures. And you can insert text into pic... |
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XMLFox Advance XML and XSD Editor 3.00 |
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XMLFox Advance is XML editing and validation tool for creating valid XML documents and/or XSD Schema. XMLFox schema editor enables you to easily develop advanced data models expressed in XSD Schema.It allows you export XML tables or whole XML to the following data files: TXT; convert to CSV (Comma Separated Value) file, convert to HTML page, create MS Acc... |
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SolveigMM AVI Trimmer 1.6.801.18 |
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SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. Our freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. That is why the users express their preference for SolveigMM AVI Trimmer if they want to cut commercials or just cut video files they have. Usin... |
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xmlBlueprint XML Editor 4.3 |
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The fast XML editor for Windows. Unicode aware text editing; Validation of XML Document against DTD, Relax NG Schema or XML Schema; XSL Transformation; XML layout tidying; real-time XML coloring; context-sensitive XML Completion for any valid DTD, Relax NG Schema or XML Schema; XPath Expression Evaluator; load from and save to FTP and WebDAV; XML tree exp... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Advanced Sound Recorder 6.0 |
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Advanced Sound Recorder, the powerful sound recorder and editor, makes a complete recording studio of your computer. With the recorder you can record voice from microphone, internet streaming audio, or music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Flash, games, etc. Advanced Sound Recorder is able to automatically detect the recor... |
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1 Smart Audio Burner 3.9 |
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Smart Audio Burner is a powerful yet easy to use software that allows you to create your own custom music CDs that can be played in any standard home or car stereo. Your source files can be MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG. They are automatically converted to .cda.Smart Audio Burner supports variety of audio formats: MP3(including VBR); Uncompressed WAV PCM; Compres... |
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Smart Converter Pro 3.12 |
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Smart Converter is the best audio tool when you compare features and quality with the price. The program completes conversions between WAV, MP3, AVI audio, WMA and many other formats in seconds.You will convert MP3, WAV(compressed and uncompressed), WMA (Windows Media Audio 9), OGG, MP2, MPC, RAW audio, VOX, MPC, G.726-721, AIFF and AU files to MP3, WAV(... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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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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