| Business News |
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
|
|
Panorado 3.3 |
 |
The Panorado 3.3 image viewer/browser offers a comfortable, innovative mouse-oriented interface for panning and zooming. This makes it particularly suitable for viewing panoramic pictures and pictures exceeding the screen size. As a Windows application, it supports 360-degree viewing in flat and spherical projection mode, an Explorer-style navigation bar,... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
|
Duplicate File Detective 2.1.1.0 |
|
Powerful, professional grade duplicate file management solution. Features include a muti-threaded file system scanning engine, flexible scan-time filtering, multiple local and network file system paths (scanned in a single pass), new project wizard, Smart Marking selection technology, multi-format export (including HTML, CSV, & XML), command line support,... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Delete Duplicate File 3.2 |
|
Duplicate File Finder is a powerful tool to locate file duplicates on your computer. It scans the computer and lists duplicate files based on byte by byte comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. It can find duplicates of any files: text, binary, music, video or images. Duplicate files can be deleted, moved, or copied. The list of duplicate files can be s... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Zipeg for Macintosh 2.0.0.777 |
 |
Zipeg is free utility for Mac OS X.
Zipeg opens and explores content of zip, rar, arj and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want.
Many documents and pictures such as jpeg files are emailed as zip archives. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract before your pollute your ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Macintosh] |
|
CryptaPix 3.00 |
|
CryptaPix is an image file management and encryption program for Windows. Organize, print and secure your digital photos and downloaded image files. Resize, rotate, crop, and remove red-eye from photographs. Create standalone slideshows to send to your friends. Secure your proprietary images from unauthorized access with 256-bit AES encryption or hide sen... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
eMarkSofts Email Extractor 1.4 |
 |
eMarkSofts Email Extractor can extract up to 100,000 targeted email addresses per hour. It extracts email addresses from NNTP Servers.
eMarkSofts Email Extractor works many times faster than the search engine extraction programs that harvest email addresses from search engines.
They have to use multiple threads to work as fast as they do and there still... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Useful File Utilities 3.2 |
|
This is a file browser with a replacer, a renamer, a finder, a change-attributes function and a batch replacer. The batch replacer is a multi-string search-and-replace filter. It can find strings in files and replace them with whatever text you specify. Both text and binary files are supported.Features:Find and Replace single text block.Insert text block ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
DreamCoder for Oracle Free Edition 2.5 |
|
DreamCoder for Oracle Free Edition is a free powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and administration tool for Oracle Databases. With the intuitive DreamCoder's GUI increase your code quality and reduce the development process time.Features:Powerful PL/SQL EditorProcedure BuilderMaster detail Table browserParameter ManagerValue List for forei... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.34 |
|
After the picture and music files, now it`s time for the videos. Online portals like YouTube.com, MyVideo.de, VideU.de and ClipFish.de have long since become cult, they collect many funny and creative short videos. In the office and of course also in your everyday life in the meantime it is considered to be chic to call up the video portals for a short br... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
FileCataloger 1.1.2 |
 |
FileCataloger is very useful software for file catalog and file search. Regardless the file is in the CD-ROM, DVD, hard disks, removable and network drives etc. The program catalogs contents of your media, and makes it available for offline browsing and searching.
Features
Offline browsing file
Well thought-out user interface
Manageable catalog ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
|
| 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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
|
