| 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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a-squared Anti-Malware 3.0.0.349 |
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Protect your PC from Malware-based hacker attacks. a-squared uses a unique approach to dealing with Trojans, Worms, Dialers, Spyware and Adware, providing an indispensable enhancement to any protection system, whether on a private PC or a company network.The unique Malware-IDS technology provides the first line of defense against individual attacks from s... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Prevx CSI - FREE Malware Scanner 1.5.103.211 |
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Prevx CSI - FREE Malware Scanner – fast effective scanning and real-time checking against the most comprehensive malware database in the world. Prevx CSI is click-and-go and requires no installation or reboot, which makes it quick and easy to use. Its small size allows you to take it anywhere, use it as many times as you like and even copy or send it to y... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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a-squared Free 3.0.0.357 |
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Scans your computer for malicious software (Malware), including Trojan Horses, Dialers, Worms, Spyware, Adware and more. a-squared Free is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your system disks for Malware. The scanner scans for Spyware Traces. Currently more than 700,000 different types of Malware may be de... |
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Anti Trojan Elite 3.8.0 |
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Anti Trojan Elite(ATE) is a malware remover, it can detect and clean malware in disk or memory.
Anti Trojan Elite provide a real-time malware firewall for user, once a trojan or keylogger would been loaded, the ATE can detect, block and then clean it in time. The ATE can detect more than 35000 trojans, worms and keyloggers currently, and the number of ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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SpyEraser 2 |
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The Problem
Ranging from irritating adware and popups to much more dangerous and destructive forms of backdoors, exploits and downloaders, that can steal your information, your identity and even your money, spyware is a growing threat. Even with the latest anti-spyware protection, 88% of new scans uncover a new malware detection after just 24 hours! Wit... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Malware Sweeper Plus 2.3.0.1 |
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MalwareSweeper Plus is an Adware, SpyWare, Key Loggers, Trojans, Dialers, Hijackers, malware, Thiefware, Big Brotherware removal utility. It scans your memory (for active memory ad components, which are not stored on your hard drive and last only as long as the computer is powered up), registry, & drives for known adware modules & for known SpyWare parasi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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SpeedyiTunes 1.3.0.66 |
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SpeedyiTunes smooths your downloads from YouTube, MSN Video, MySpace video, Yahoo Video, AOL video, Veoh and over 300 other video sites. Save YouTube/FLV video while watching it instead of lauching seperate software. 100% Free of Malware; contains NO Spyware, Adware or any kind of Malware in the software and installer.... |
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MultiCore AntiVirus 2.001.00011 |
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A new unique MultiCore AntiVirus & AntiSpyware product reliably defends PC against computer malware and on-line threats at unsurpassed, highest security levels.
Nowadays traditional security solutions cannot provide sufficient protection of computers against continuously increasing amount of malware code. Antivirus labs of individual vendors are just una... |
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Whizzo CleanSuite 1.01 |
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Whizzo CleanSuite is a collection of programs designed to keep personal computers secure, as well as to restore and maintain peak performance.Features:Detects and removes spyware, viruses, hijackers and other malwareCleans internet history and includes file shredding to beyond military standards for privacyOptimizes PC startup to greatly increase system p... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Prevx 2.0 1.0.1.12 |
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Prevx uses automated malware research. This allows us to see more malware and see it faster. This means we can provide protection much faster and more comprehensively than other vendors. The majority of our users find out about Prevx from a search engine in response to a strange file they found on their PC or from someone else who said we were the only on... |
[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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