| 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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Aston 1.9.6 |
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Aston fully replaces standard Windows Desktop and delivers a host of new features. It`s nice and easy to work on a computer with Aston installed. Aston does not require a powerful and expensive computer.
With Aston your system is much more stable. Small footprint in RAM and few processor resources yield higher performance. What's New:Vista supportNew A... |
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TextMaster Split File 3.0 |
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software tool for splitting fixed or delimited text files into specified number of text files with the same structure. Features include defining number of files to split into based on number of lines each file should contain or fixed number of files regardless of the size. Each file can have header carried over if so required.
Destination directory as... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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TextMaster 2.0 |
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Software tool for rapid analyzes and processing of fixed or delimited text files. Features include checking each record for line length, relevant file dates (created, last modified and last accessed) and provides you with the relevant statistics. SQL features provided by TMQL offer very powerful way for a text file viewing and processing where every line ... |
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Pension Actuary 2.0 |
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The program allows you calculate pension annuities and/or pension contributions for non-state pension funds, based on actuary mathematics. The software can use various gender stats, investment rates to execute calculations for various short and long-term pension schemes: fixed-term or whole life pension, whole life pension with/without cash refund period... |
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BladeFTP 2.6 |
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BladeFTP is a FREE FTP client with a lot of new and useful features. It allows you browse several FTP site at the same time, you can also create a task and add the files into it, the task can execute automatically, it makes the updating and downloading very easy. Another new feature is History Manage, it can record the detail of uploading and downloading ... |
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BetterJPEG 1.7.1.7 |
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BetterJPEG is a JPEG editor specifically designed to avoid recompression loss when editing and resaving photos. BetterJPEG does not recompress parts that didn't change.
Features: lossless rotation, flip, lossless crop (free, fixed aspect, fixed size, predefined aspects,...), lossless date/EXIF info/text insertion (position, font, size, color, background,... |
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AutoQ3D Standard 2.10 |
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A complete 3D modeling application for computing aided drafting in three dimensions. AutoQ3D can be used by anyone who wants an easy way to imagine, create, and publish in 3D. It is ideal for you to use as modeling editor for your home additions, game design, math geometrical education or whatever your imagination tells you.Features:Alpha mask feature add... |
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Export Table to Text for Oracle 1.04.10 |
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Export Table for Oracle Server helps to save table's data to text file. The program supports delimited or fixed length formats. Export utility has easy to learn and to use wizard interface. All modern versions of Oracle Server are supported. This handy utility helps database users to create text file for selected table within seconds.Features:Easy to use... |
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ABC Amber CSV Converter 2.15 |
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ABC Amber CSV Converter was developed to help you convert your CSV (comma-separated or fixed) files to any format you wish (DBF, XLS, XML, PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, DOC, and many more) easily and quickly.
The software supports a batch conversion, a run from command line, more than 50 languages. Batch conversion ability allows you to convert a unlimited n... |
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ScreenRest 2.0.0 |
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ScreenRest is a straightforward and easy-to-use application which reminds you to take regular rests from your computer. Using ScreenRest gives you complete control over how often, and how long, you wish to rest.You have the choice of being reminded to take rests at fixed intervals, or having your keyboard and mouse usage monitored to determine when it is... |
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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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