| 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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Living Waterfalls Oceans and Rivers 2.0 |
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Living Photo Screensavers bring you a new dimension in presenting pictures that prompt the imagination and recall exotic memories. This is a FREE screensaver, which consists of four screenavers wrapped up into one. Each of them has animation, sound and transition effects. It is an example for you to see the way all other living photo screensavers on my w... |
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SnowFall Living Desktop 2.4.0 |
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Bring your desktop to life with SnowFall Living Desktop! Watch as beautiful winter scenes come to life on your desktop complete with gently drifting snow. Allow your desktop to be enchanted this winter as you enjoy the peace of falling snow. SnowFall Living Desktop allows you to change a number of features including the number of snowflakes and winter sce... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Living Photos Studio 5 5.6.05 |
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Become a show master in your own home. AquaSoft Living Photos converts your photos into an animated multimedia show in a heartbeat. Pictures, text, music and voice are burned on DVD easily.If you have always wanted to be seen on TV we turn you into a program director. Three steps and your reality show can begin, from hip to respectable, there's something ... |
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3D Living Dinosaurs 1.0 |
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3D
Living Dinosaurs features thoroughly recreated Cretaceous landscapes
and plants and animated giant 3D dinosaurs shown in the natural
habitats.Stunning scenes with active volcanoes and giant ferns, custom
types of numbers of dinosaurs, roar of T-rex, and other features make
this screensaver truly unique.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Christmas Candlelight Living Desktop 2.5.0 |
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Christmas comes alive on your desktop with these beautiful candelit Christmas scenes. Photorealistic flickering candlelight illuminates five different holiday scenes sure to brighten your desktop and your holiday season. Each scene is unique and features up to four beautiful moving candle flames casting light over the whole scene in real time right befo... |
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Australian Nature Photo Screensaver 1.0 |
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Living Photo Screensavers bring you a new dimension in presenting pictures that prompt the imagination and recall exotic memories. Australian Nature photo screensaver presents beautiful nature scenes. It consists of four screensavers wrapped up into one. Each of them has animation,transition effects and authentic stereo sound taken from that particular pl... |
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Raptor 1.0 |
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Complexity Chaotic Systems Simulator. From living organisms and ecological and social systems to planets, chemical reactions, gravity etc. Also Artificial Life (AL) Simulator. |
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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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Halloween - Screensaver 5.07 |
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"Halloween" - Animated Screensaver by EleFun Multimedia.One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year.It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. Install Animated Screensaver "Halloween" on your computer ... |
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OceanDive 1.3 |
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OceanDive is a unique combination of a 3D marine life screensaver and a scuba diving exploration game.
Behold the amazing undersea world of the living ocean! OceanDive takes you on a journey through the eyes of a scuba-diver, showing you stunning sub-marine vistas, shoals of fish, undersea caves, the coral reef, and much more!
Buy OceanDive and get ... |
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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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