| 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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FotoTagger 2.10 |
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FotoTagger is a free software tool for annotating JPEG images quickly
and easily. Place on an image movable annotation notes that point to
individual elements visualized on the image. Identify people and
objects. Mark notable details. Comment specific objects. Instantly find
a particular person, object, or comment among image collections. Do you
use ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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FastStone Image Viewer 2.9 Beta 1 |
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FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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PDF Editor 1.0 |
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CreativDoc PDF Editor is an application to edit and work with existing pdf files. After opening a pdf file you can use the pointer tool to select existing objects. You can select multiple objects at once to modify all at once. Over the property editor at the bottom of the window you can change selected objects. For example you may change the font or edit ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MetaDraw .NET 2.0 2.0.7 |
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MetaDraw WinForms for .Net is the .NET 2.0 version of MetaDraw ActiveX component. This product has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the infrastructure provided by .NET so you can maximize your development productivity. MetaDraw WinForms for .Net integrates seamlessly with Microsoft's .NET Framework . As a result, you get an easy-to-use, robu... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Colasoft Ping Tool 1.1 |
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Colasoft Ping Tool is a powerful graphic ping tool, it supports ping multiple IP addresses at the same time, and compares response time in a graphic chart. You can view historical charts and save the charts to a *.bmp file. With this build-in tool, users can ping the IP addresses of captured packets in Colasoft Capsa (if applicable) conveniently, includin... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Able Fax Tif View 2.8 |
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FAX, TIF, PDF, EPS, PS, AI, DCX viewer, editor and converter, offers you a full solution for viewing, editing, printing, saving, converting. Able Fax Tif View can convert one- and multipage files to standard TIFF/FAX format, jpeg, png, bmp, pcx, gif, dib, rle, tga, pdf, ps, eps and more.Able Fax Tif View can edit loaded images - extract, move, insert, del... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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PDF Image Stamp Server 1.00 |
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PDF Image Stamp is a high performance server tool from Traction Software for Windows PC, Unix Aix, Linux & Macintosh OSX
NOTE: This Software does NOT require Acrobat, PDF Image Stamp is designed for server usage.
PDF Image Stamp Server software automates the process of applying JPEG Images to different sized pdf's.
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[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Linux,Macintosh] |
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Image Repainter 1.1 |
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Image Repainter is Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows that borrows prototype image color characteristics to change colors of a source image. It is based on the modified method of matching color histogram statistics of the source image to those of prototype image.Image Repainter allows the user to express pleasing colors from desirable prototype imag... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Image Suit 4.0.1 |
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Image Suit is a professional image editing software that provides drawing tools, color and saturation adjustments, image and canvas sizing, and a good set of filters. This digital image editing software trial is simple, yet, features highly developed painting tools including brushes that simulate natural media.It also includes an advanced pen tool for pr... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Image Resize 1.1 |
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The software Image Resize is a tool to increase or decrease the dimensions of photos or images. This stands for a nice tools for making thumbnail or for ajusting the dimensions of your photos before a presentation on screen or projector. This is a necessary tool for those who make graphics, collecting photos or simply for those using a numerical camera. I... |
[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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