| 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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Myspace Friend Finder 1.4 |
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Myspace Friend Finder allows you to grow your MySpace Friends. You simply enter a keyword or a FriendID and click the Search button.
You can find people by keyword or you can get all friends on a certain user. Myspace Friend Finder will instantly save any range of friends you choose.Features:Fast find Friends by keywordsGet Friends of a certain userSave... |
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Huminity 2.0 |
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Huminity is a free social networking and chat software that allows you to chat with anyone, navigate animated maps of connections and view the links of friends between you and anyone else.
With Huminity you can chat with anyone, enter chat-rooms, find people and search the links of friends between you and anyone else. The possibilities are endless - da... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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OnShare 2.4 |
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OnShare is a free way to share files and chat with your friends in complete privacy. It's a simple download that directly networks computers together. You control exactly what your friends can see and get their hands on.
OnShare is built exclusively for you and your friends. You only share files with people you invite so you know they're from a t... |
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Tube Star You Tube Friend Request Bot 1.0.1 |
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TubeStar is a YouTube automation software application.. a friend bot for YouTube that drives ton's of viewers to your videos like bees to honey!
TubeStar will quickly gather user IDs on any YouTube page. With these IDs you can send automated friend requests, comments, etc..Literally *Tell* thousand's about your new videos!
This software will allow you t... |
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LinkedCells 1.7 |
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LinkedCells lets you share your Excel data with friends and colleagues. You'll always have access to up-to-date information. Your friends or colleagues can use your data in their spreadsheets or, they can share data with you, and you can use that data directly in Excel.As soon as the data is updated, it's available to all your contacts. It's easy to use,... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Face Beauty Rank 1.0.5 |
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Entertain your family and friends with a new gadget! Rank the beauty of a human face automatically based on a single facial photograph. Hours of entertainment are guaranteed when you score your own and your friends' faces against celebrities!Let Face Beauty Rank help you rank the beauty of every picture in your possession! Picking the best image will make... |
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SpamAid 4.0 |
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SpamAid is an easy-to-use MS Outlook add-on to protect your Inbox against spam. The program is based on Bayesian filtering technology. It automatically learns using your personal correspondence to increase the filtration accuracy. Quarantined e-mails are stored in a separate SPAM folder.Users can manage their friends and enemies lists or build their own f... |
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LiveJournal Toolbar 1.0.0.1 |
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LiveJournal Toolbar – is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which duplicates and extends functions of LiveJournal navigational panel. It provides access to all popular functions of LiveJournal: messages, administration, access to LJ Support Center.Features:easy access to user profile and its administration;easy access to messages page;navigation to pages of... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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WebcamMax 5.0.4.2 |
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Add videos, pictures and effects to virtual/real webcam and broadcast on messengers. Work for all webcam programs (MSN, Yahoo, Camfrog, YouTube, ICQ, AIM, Skype, Paltalk, ANYwebcam, Stickam and etc). Add a variety of effects over webcam. Download thousands of online effects. Record video with effects and broadcast on YouTube or your Blog. Share your scree... |
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MagicCamera 1.9.0 |
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Wanna chat via Instant Messenger pretending you are a film star? Wanna share your favorable video or film with your buddy on Internet? Wanna slide show your photo albums to your friends during chatting? MagicCamera can help you realize all these funs!
MagicCamera adds a virtual software camera to your operating system and allows you to use it as a rea... |
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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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