| 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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AKVIS Retoucher 3.0 |
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AKVIS Retoucher is a plugin to image editors, photo restoration and photo retouching tool. Retoucher removes dust, scratches, stains and other defects that appear on damaged photos. The plugin reconstructs the lacking parts of a photo using the information of the surrounding areas. Retoucher is your reliable tool for increasing productivity!... |
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Easy Card Creator Enterprise 4.14.44 |
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Enterprise Edition is the solution that provides you with a full set of tools to satisfy a wide range of design and print application requirements, each with a supreme level of professionalism and quality.The straight-forward user interface and great design capabilities make Enterprise Edition the software of preference for users of all skill levels, from... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Australian Nature Photo Screensaver 1.0 |
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Living Photo Screensavers bring you a new dimension in presenting pictures that prompt the imagination and recall exotic memories. Australian Nature photo screensaver presents beautiful nature scenes. It consists of four screensavers wrapped up into one. Each of them has animation,transition effects and authentic stereo sound taken from that particular pl... |
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iPhoto to DVD 4.12 |
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Iphoto to DVD is a powerful but easy to use utility that allows you to archive digital photos into DVD/SVCD/VCD compatible
MPEG files with hundreds of transition effects. The transformation includes photo to dvd, photo to vcd, photo to mpeg, jpg to
mpg and jpg to mpeg. You can create photo video, photo show on DVD/SVCD/VCD easily. These files can ... |
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602PC SUITE 4.2.06.0213 |
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602PC SUITE is an integrated office suite compatible with Microsoft Office documents ( DOC / XLS format). The suite is composed of four applications: a word processor, spreadsheet, photo editor, and digital photo organizer. 602Text is a powerful word processor compatible with Microsoft Word ( DOC 9x/2000/XP/2003, RTF, HTML) supporting multiple languages p... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Microsoft Photo Info 1.0 |
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Microsoft Photo Info will allow photographers to easily add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photos from inside Windows Explorer.When installed, a new "Photo Info" item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose "Photo Info" to open t... |
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Selkie Photo Recovery 3.1.0. |
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Photos trapped? No backup? Must recover photos fast? Get the best photo recovery software for less than $60. Selkie Photo Recovery is do-it-yourself, fast recovery for photos on your PC or laptop. Simple, secure, powerful recovery software for photographs, pictures, and graphics. Selkie Photo Recovery saves you time and money when your computer breaks. Bu... |
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PicJet Studio 3.0 |
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Do you have a bunch of digital pictures but no time or desire to handle them scrupulously one by one? Enhance your digital photos automatically by simply dragging and dropping! PicJet Studio allows you to perform four frequently required enhancements in a simple and fast manner. Make a collage of your favorite pictures, imprint date and time on a bunch of... |
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Photo Pos Lite image editor 1.30 |
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Photo Pos Lite (Image editing software) is a free ad-supported (WhenU ad-supported) edition of the award-wining editor Photo Pos Pro. Photo Pos Lite contains many of Photo Pos Pro's tools and features.
Despite Photo Pos Lite contains only a part of Photo Pos Pro features it is still a powerful Image and Computer Graphics editor.Using the Lite version ... |
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ImageElements Photomontage 1.02 |
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Now you can create a montage style effect from a single picture without needing to use an expensive photo tool to do this trick! With ImageElements Photomontage you can use various layered styles to get a real custom effect. Use the instant photo appearance to look like you just tossed a bunch of photos onto the page.Let the computer create the montage fo... |
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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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