| 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.
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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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Super Screen Recorder 5.09 |
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Super Screen Recorder is a easy to use and powerfull video screen capture software for recording screen activities into standard avi video files. The file size is very small. You can record the full screen, window screen, fixed region or any part of the screen video. You can even record audio into the AVI, from the microphone, line-in, or speakers.You can... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PhotoMix 5.3.1 |
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Get PhotoMix with 400+ free templates and create gorgeous digital scrapbooks! This easy-to-use scrapbooking software offers lots of additional graphics, some free of charge. PhotoMix is an ideal scrapbooking tool for those who enjoy creating collages from digital photos and value their time.Create collages with several mouse clicks, save them as digital i... |
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FinanceToGo 1.0.2 |
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FinanceToGo is an affordable and easy-to-use personal finance manager based on the principles of double entry accounting.
If you are an individual or small business owner, FinanceToGo is an ideal tool which allows you to create budgets and track what you spend your money on with automatically generated graphs and charts.
You can track debt, profit ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Macintosh] |
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Notes2Outlook 1.10 |
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Looking for an easy to use, client-based tool to migrate Lotus Notes e-mail to Outlook? Want a tool that offers unlimited email transfers for a fixed license period rather than expensive per archive charges? Look no further! Notes2Outlook is the tool you are looking for.
Email conversion doesn't get much simpler than this. Simply point to the Notes arc... |
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Automatic Time Tracking Software 2.0.1 |
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Fully automated time usage/project tracking software with time statistic analyzing and informative reporting capability for you to track billable hours, project analysis or simply to be conscious of your time spent while concentrating on real work. Time tracking is make easy without your manual involvment and you simply won't have unrecord time or lost b... |
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Business Valuation Model Excel 32 |
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The Business Valuation Model Excel combines relative indicators for future performance with basic financial data (Revenue, Variable and Fixed Costs) to value the business. This valuation method can be used for business purchase, sale, or establishment. The model uniquely applies your intuitive business and market knowledge to provide a 3 year performance ... |
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Lockout Inspector 1.1 |
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Lockout Inspector will monitor any user account. If the account becomes locked, Lockout Inspector will send you an email with the date and time of the incident. It will also send you all recent login attempts by the user account that were UNSUCCESSFUL. This helps you determine if the failed login attempts were caused by you or someone else trying to login... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ASTRA - Advanced Sysinfo Tool 5.30 |
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This program performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer hardware and devices operational modes, including undocumented information. A unique quick HDD Health Status checker is included. It provides information on CPU, motherboard, hard disks, S.M.A.R.T., CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, memory ... |
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UFS Explorer Standard 3.0 |
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With UFS Explorer Standard you may:
- recover files from most used file systems of different OS: UFS/UFS2 (BSD), ReiserFS/Ext2/Ext3 (Linux), HFS/HFS+/HFSx (MacOS), FAT and NTFS with system locked files access;
- access files on virtual disks of leading virtualiztion software.
UFS Explorer Standard supports access to physical disks, USB mass storag... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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UPC Bar Codes 3.3 |
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The Universal Product Code has been used in the North American retail industry since 1973. There are two different versions of UPC bar codes, UPC-A and UPC-E. The UPC-A bar code is 12 digits long, including its checksum. UPC-E bar codes are special shortened versions of UPC-A bar codes and are 6 digits long. Both UPC-A and UPC-E bar codes may have optiona... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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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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