| 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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CCProxy 6.0 |
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Proxy Server CCProxy lets all computers on the LAN access Internet through one single Internet connection. Just need to install Proxy Server CCProxy on the server which can access Internet directly and the other PC clients can connect to the Internet through the proxy software. It will provide you a cost-effective Internet connection sharing solution with... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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SolidShare Firewall 3.0.2 |
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SolidShare Firewall secures your network, allowing you to implement your security policy by configuring a set of rules that specify which sites (IP addresses/Url or website content) and applications can be passed through the SolidShare server computer, it can also perform NAT (Network Address Translation) to share a single Internet connection. Serves as a... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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UserGate 4.1 |
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UserGate is a gateway server solution providing extremely secure Internet connection sharing. This kind of solution is very efficient for setting up Internet access for small and medium size networks.UserGate is easily managed, does not require special skills and can be set up in minutes. UserGate has many features to optimize Internet traffic: web resour... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Invisible Browsing 5.0 |
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Invisible Browsing will hide, change or mask your IP address, letting you surf anonymously preventing your IP or other information to be collected without your permission.
Invisible Browsing allows you to change your IP anytime by routing your Internet traffic through overseas servers. All proxies are tested in advanced providing a high speed anonymou... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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TupSight 2.31 |
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Unlike many other packet sniffing programs that use WinPcap library as the driver to capture live network data, TupSight is an NAT router technology-based EIM (Employee Internet Management) product realizing direct and reliable web monitoring and control at the Internet gateway.TupSight can be installed on one of the computers on any kind of LAN infrastru... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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UserGate Internet security server 4.3 |
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UserGate is a gateway server solution providing extremely secure Internet connection sharing. This kind of solution is very efficient for setting up Internet access for small and medium size networks. UserGate is easily managed, does not require special qualifications and can be set up in minutes. UserGate 4.1 has many features to significantly optimize I... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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602LAN SUITE Content Filter 2004.0.07.0305 |
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602LAN SUITE Content Filter can enforce your acceptable Internet use policy by monitoring and filtering network web access to objectionable content. This next generation content filtering solution is based on PureSight Active Content Recognition (ACR) technology that provides real-time content analysis within the context of the web page without the need f... |
[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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