| 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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MP3 Tag Editor 2.7 |
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MP3 Tag Editor is a great tool for editing data tags in sound files of any format. You can work with several files simultaneously or change the tags for all files in a selected folder at once.MP3 Tag Editor is well-suited for bringing order to folders containing hundreds of music files. The program can download audio track data (author, album, date, genre... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MP3 To Wave 1.015 |
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MP3 To Wave is a friendly used tool to convert MP3 to wave file. With the build-in multimedia player, you can listen to the MP3 file, set the start time and end time, convert any audio section of the file without quality loss. MP3 To Wave can encode wav file with fast speed and high quality. You can download the trial version of MP3 To Wave freely.... |
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Mp3 Torpedo 5.3.6 |
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MP3 Torpedo is a fork of the very popular LimeWire Gnutella client. The purpose of MP3 Torpedo is to keep and
maintain the freedoms that LimeWire may be forced to withdraw.LimeWire has been considering an alternative path
to keep them out of any legal situations they could be forced into. From what we understand, LimeWire intends to
implement a DRM ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MP3 WAV Converter 3.26 |
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Mp3 Wav Converter Version 3.26
MP3 WAV Converter is the ideal all-in-one tool for converting batches of MP3 into WAV for CD burning. Want to get more music on a disk? It's also great for converting your favorite old collection of WAV into the space-saving condensed MP3 format. And it's an excellent MP3 and WAV player on its own. Cool interface, easy to... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MP3 WAV Studio 6.60.70601 |
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MP3 WAV Studio is an all-in-one solution for burning, ripping and playing of audio files. In addition, the program can also create, encode, decode and convert between MP3 and other formats. Additional features include jitter-correction for ripping of scratched CDs, burn proof, batch conversions, drag and drop playlist creation, as well as a MP3 site manag... |
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MP3 WMA Cutter 1.00 |
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MP3 WMA Cutter supports MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG batch cutting. With MP3 WMA Cutter, you can cut piece from a big audio file and then convert it to a MP3 or WAV or WMA or OGG file.
Cut with high precision and no quality is lost!
MP3 WMA Cutter is a real time encoding/decoding, no disk space will be used when cutting audio files.
There is a small id... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MP3 WMA OGG Tag Edit 2.1 |
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MP3 WMA OGG Tag Edit is a great tool for editing data tags in sound files of any format. You can work with several files simultaneously or change the tags for all files in a selected folder at once.Tag Edit is well-suited for bringing order to folders containing hundreds of music files. The program can download audio track data (author, album, date, genre... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MP3Fox 3.1 |
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Correct the filenames of your MP3/WMA files intelligently or from ID3-tags. Support for ID3v2 tags! Simulation before fix.
Save Artist and Title information back to ID3-tags, remove custom strings, automatic update etc. |
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MP3Producer 2.56 |
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MP3Producer is an ideal solution for converting audio CD to the most popular compressed audio formats such as MP3,WMA,WAV,OGG. With this software you can also easily convert WAV to MP3,WMA or OGG; OGG to WAV. Advanced FreeDB function, ID3 tagging allows you to save and edit disk info (Artist,Album,Genre,Title) in MP3 files. MP3Producer supports different ... |
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MP3Producer DE 2.55 |
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MP3Producer DE is a special version for German speaking users with the German interface and Help file. Rips audio CD tracks to WAV,MP3,OGG,WMA files; WAV to MP3,OGG,WMA; OGG,WMA to WAV. MP3Producer supports FreeDB(CDDB), MPEG1, MPEG2, 8-320kbps, constant, variable bitrates, "Extract CD segment" function, ID3v1,2 tags. Has built-in CD player, flexible sett... |
| [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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