| 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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D-Photo Recovery 1.2.7 |
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Recover deleted digital pictures from hard drives and flash memory cards. Undelete pictures shot with any digital camera from compacts to digital SLR quickly and reliably. Find, preview and restore pictures in all graphical formats from JPEG to TIFF. Recover RAW images as quickly and easily as developed pictures. All types of memory cards, hard disks and ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AMD64 CPU Assistant 0.9.1.335 |
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AMD64 CPU Assistant is designed to monitor the temperature of a AMD64 CPU core using the processor's on-die thermal sensor.Features:monitoring the temperature of a AMD64 CPU core using the processor's on-die thermal sensormonitoring the CPU usagemonitoring the memory usageshow CPU informationrecord monitoring information in log filecontrol memory timingsc... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Magic Photo Recovery 1.0 |
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Have you deleted a photo? Have cleared memory of camera in error? Restore any removed images with Magic Photo Recovery just following four simple steps! You can recover photos if you erroneously have removed them from your computer, camera, flash-card, or memory card of a mobile phone or any other data carrier. Now you can restore any images while just pr... |
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True Crypt 4.2a |
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TrueCrypt
is a software system for establishing and maintaining an
on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly
encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted
right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.
No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without
using the corr... |
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Auslogics Emergency Recovery 2.0.7 |
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Restore accidentally deleted files, documents or images with Emergency Recovery. Don't let months or years of your work disappear with deleted documents, pictures and other important files. Files deleted from PC, digital camera or memory stick can be restored with high speed and reliability. Files damaged by computer viruses, spyware or application progra... |
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Qmcalc 2.3 |
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Qmcalc is a useful multi-funtion, multi-memory, programmable scientific calculator application that comes with graphical function plotter. |
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SafeHouse Professional File Encryption 3.00 |
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SafeHouse provides total privacy and protection for your sensitive files and folders using passwords and strong encryption. SafeHouse features military-strength encryption which is completely transparent to the way you work and compatible with all Windows applications. This software is amazingly simple to use and works on all drives, including external US... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ID Disk Creator 1.2 |
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ID Disk Creator is a utility program made up of series of tools enabling you to create alternative virtual drives on your computer. It works safely, offering a variety of possibilities, leaving your physical drives intact, as well as the disk partitions. Features:Create and encrypts virtual drivesCreates virtual CD-ROMsOffers protection of your data again... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Drive Encryption 3.163 |
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DriveEncryption is the best encryption and decryption solution. It's easy to use and can encrypt Flash USB Memory, Removable Storage or fixed drive which are using FAT or NTFS File System so faster that few seconds is enough for encrypting or decrypting 200GB Hard Disk.Feature Highlights
Almost support all kind of Removable, Fixed storage drive and Me... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ObjectWipe 1.6 |
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ObjectWipe protects your computer privacy: wipe files, disk drives/flash memory and unused disk space so your data CAN NEVER BE ACCESSED OR RECOVERED. The program uses either fast or secure erase algorithms. Files and folders can be combined in wipe lists to erase them in a single procedure. Both the FAT and NTFS file systems are supported.Features:Wipe 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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