| 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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Power Notes 3.30 |
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Power Notes is a multi-featured scheduler, reminder, and organizer for Windows allowing you to create electronic stickers and display them when the time is due.The program has three major components:
Organizer that arranges otherwise chaotic pieces of information in orderly manner. Scheduler, a component that is responsible for planning events and runnin... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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OxyCube 0.9.1 |
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OxyCube is a powerful phone manager offering more convenience than PC Suite. Enjoy full control of your phone or smartphone from PC. Connection and management are devoid of any complications and all features are at hand. The tool is ideal to work with your phonebook, organizer and event log, as well as managing entire mobile content with a handy file brow... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Purchase Order Organizer Pro 1.9 |
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Purchase Order Organizer Deluxe is a flexible purchase order management software for Windows users. Purchase order database management helps all kinds of companies and organizations to create, process, and track purchases. Purchase Order PRO manager includes two databases: Suppliers/Vendors database: manage information about suppliers and vendors. Purchas... |
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Quick To-Do Pro 4.5.1 |
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Quick To-Do Pro is an award-winning small and easy-to-use organizer with a strong focus on to-do list management. It can act as project-management software, letting you assign tasks to any user-defined project and/or to a person responsible for a task. Moreover, it will keep your diary; remind you of anniversaries, holidays, and birthdays. Quick To-Do Pro... |
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Task-O-Matic 5.0 |
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Task-O-Matic is a comprehensive task list manager that helps you to quickly organize all of your business or personal notes and to do lists. It uses a fully skinned graphically rich interface with a choice of skins. For each task item, Task-O-Matic optionally allows you to give priority levels, required completion date, estimated number of days to comple... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MSD Organizer 8.20 |
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MSD Organizer is a complete, powerful and easy to use personal and professional information manager with calendar, alarms, tasks, contacts, personal diary, property, budget, health and music. It also provides the following tools: backup and restore, network messenger, word processor, image viewer, calculator and financial calculator.Features:Information s... |
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Personal Knowbase Reader 3.0.5 |
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Personal Knowbase Reader is a viewer for data files created by Personal Knowbase freeform notes organizer software. Now you can share your Knowbase content with friends or co-workers, even if they don't have a copy of Personal Knowbase. PK Reader gives your associates read-only access to files, so they can view, search, export, and print Knowbase articles... |
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Bolin Organizer 2.01 |
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Bolin Organizer is an effective task manager which helps you organize your personal and work life. In a few clicks of mouse you could create new task with reminder and long note. It is extremely easy to use. All tasks are separated by categories to effectively track all your tasks. Every task could be assigned priority and audible reminder. A list of your... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Media Catalog Studio Lite 5.4 |
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Is your video and music file collection growing out of control, making it impossible to find anything? Fight this problem with Media Catalog Studio, a handy software application for classifying and tracking media files. This database is capable of identifying media files on any storage devices - hard-drives, floppies, external drives, CDs and so on. The p... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Notesbrowser 1.7 |
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Notesbrowser is a helpful, fast-access systems tray Freeform Organizer for making and storing quick notes and organizing dates. The tool has a calendar and many fields, where you can store, for example, to-do-lists, dates, bookmarks or your mp3-playlists. A integrated search function allows it to find your entries. Notesbrowser can remind you to dates. A... |
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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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