| Business News |
Oil slumps on easing storm worry and dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil tumbled more than $5 on Tuesday,
pushing losses so far this week to about $10, as forecasters
said an Atlantic hurricane would steer clear of offshore oil
platforms and the greenback gained against other currencies.
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Alcoa's profit off but tops forecasts
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on
Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter
profit, lifting its shares, as higher aluminum prices and sales
volumes offset higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch sues InBev over takeover attempt
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc sued
InBev NV in an effort to stop its Belgian-Brazilian
suitor from taking any more steps to replace the U.S. brewer's
board of directors, which had rejected a $46.3 billion takeover
offer from InBev.
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Stocks rise on banks and lower oil
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks rose in another turbulent
session on Tuesday as a pullback in oil prices eased worries
about consumer and business spending, while financial shares
gained after the Fed chairman said he may keep open a lifeline
for banks.
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Traders plead guilty to foreign exchange scam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on
Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged
in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from
investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal
prosecutors said.
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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit
2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault
for taking out loans they couldn't afford.
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Personal SmartCheck 3.0 |
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Personal SmartCheck 3.0 monitors all hard drives internal S.M.A.R.T. attributes, predict drive failure and prevent data loss. Using predictions settings, Personal SmartCheck lets you know about a potential disk health problem before you lose valuable data.With Personal SmartCheck you will have the most recent information about the health of all hard drive... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Personal Organizer 4.5 |
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A personal organization program to help you track important data and information for your own records. Also, lets you set up a budget, track automobile information, keep a personal journal, enter and view family information to include individual and family photos. Even includes a calendar maker that lets you import data from the personal planner area of... |
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TreeSize Personal 4.2 |
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Powerful and flexible harddisk space manager for Windows. TreeSize Personal shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file owner, the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives.
It also lets you search for old, big, temporary, obsolete and duplicat... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 6.0.1.410 |
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal secures your PC against viruses and Trojans, as well as adware, spyware and other malware. It also scans your incoming and outgoing mail in real-time, offers real-time protection and on-demand scanning. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal scans inside compressed files, and offers automatic updated of virus signatures every 3 hours.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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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... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PortaWhiz Info Manager 1.0 |
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PortaWhiz Info Manager is a Personal Information Manager, or PIM in short, which enables you to organize and securely store your important, personal, and sensitive information in a strongly encrypted (Rijndael) database file. This information will be accessible from your Pocket PC, and your personal computer.
With PortaWhiz Info Manager you can create ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Personal Passworder 3.9 |
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Personal Passworder keeps more than just passwords! This award-winning password manager will keep your passwords, serial numbers, credit card numbers, phone entries and other information safely and securely. You can even create customized groups for your data! All data is encrypted with hacker-proof, reliable algorithm and all users have their own passwor... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Alive Organizer 1.7.04.37 |
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Alive Organizer is a powerful system allowing you to manage your personal information. Alive Organizer allows you to effectively schedule tasks, make records in your address book, create notes, write and publish your personal blog.With Alive Organizer, you can easily generate your personal schedule for any date, get timely reminders about birthdays, anniv... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Personal Mail Server Pro 2.44 |
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Personal Mail Server Pro is a SMTP/POP3 mail server program you can use as a personal local SMTP server or as a stand-alone fully featured mail server. You can use the product along with any mail clients that are complaint with the standard SMTP/POP3 protocols. This server does everything from accepting email messages on behalf of your users, storing them... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ConceptDraw MINDMAP Personal 5.3 |
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ConceptDraw MINDMAP 4 is a mind-mapping and team brainstorming tool with extended drawing capabilities. Use it to efficiently organize your ideas and tasks and fight information overload with the help of Mind Mapping technique. ConceptDraw MINDMAP 4 supports extra file formats.You can use it for note-taking, memorizing or planning. Mind maps, outlines and... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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| Software News |
EA says has complied with FTC request on Take-Two
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth
(AP)
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Sets Hosted-services Pricing, Irks Partners
(PC World)
PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete...
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
(PC World)
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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VMware warns on revenue, replaces CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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New Yahoo board might lure Microsoft back into talks
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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