| 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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Rylstim Budget 3.0 |
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Rylstim Budget is a program for tracking current expenses and revenues
and planning the future ones. Rylstim Budget will help you keep an
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suggest you to use for all transactions. By using the calendar, you
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ID Devices Lock 1.2 |
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ID Devices Lock is a very useful program to have on your computer in order to protect your personal information and prevent unauthorized access. It allows you to prevent any data-collecting via an USB device by denying copying access. Features:Denies copying access of files to any devicesLocks USB devices, CD-ROMs and Floppy disksProtects you computer aga... |
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Samsung PC Studio 3.2.1 HA4 Vista |
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Samsung PC Studio is a Windows-based PC program package that you can use easily to manage personal data and multimedia files by connecting a Samsung Electronics Mobile Phone (GSM/GPRS/UMTS) to your PC.The applications of Samsung PC Studio and their functions and features are as follows:PC Studio Launcher- Provides the shortcut icons to start the PC Studio... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Adondo Personal Audio Link 1.0 |
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Personal Audio Link (PAL) is Windows-based PC software that enables you to call your PC remotely from any cell phone or telephone, and hear the information you need. You just dial a private 10-digit phone number assigned to PAL (your own PC). Then, PAL can read and/or play to you a wide range of information from Outlook, the Internet, and other sources:... |
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Advanced WindowsCare Personal 2.51.802 |
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Slow down, freeze, crash and security threats are over. Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. Scanning and finding what other utilities miss, it can keep your PC error-free and smooth than ever. This fantastic program is available free of charge... |
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ID Uneraser 1.2 |
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ID Uneraser is a utility program designed to help you recover lost files and to prevent data damage or data loss. It restores and recreates items of your personal files and folders and performs partition recovery as well.Features:Scans harddisk to search for erased itemsUn-erases files and personal dataRestores deleted untraceable filesRecovers lost parti... |
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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 |
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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Personal Edition is the universal solution you will ever need for partitioning, backup, imaging, cloning and recovery. It becomes your professional assistant to resolve any simple or complicated task regarding hard disk management and system maintenance. Protect and improve your PC's performance with Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8... |
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Allway Sync 7.1.2 |
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Allway Sync compares files in specified folders and copies the modified file to the counterpart folder, i.e., it synchronizes folders. Unlike other file sync tools that just copy files with the most recent modification time, Allway Sync uses a true bi-directional synchronization algorithm that does not depend on system clock accuracy, and also propagates ... |
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Mjrz .Net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.34 |
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Mjrz .net is a free, opensource Personal finance manager application. It is designed to be intuitive and easy to use for home and small business users.
Mjrz PFM is released under Apache Open source license v2.0
You can download and use it for free. There are no restrictions and no disabled features. Links to download the binary files and sources are... |
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Absolute Database 5.12 |
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Absolute Database - Delphi database system. This BDE alternative is free for personal use.Key Features:No BDE;no DLLs;SQL'92 (DDL & DML) support;Single-user and mutli-user mode (file-server);Single database file;Unmatched ease-of-use; 100% compatibility with standard DB-aware controls; Strong encryption;BLOB compression;Full source code available;Royalty-... |
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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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