| 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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ZipSnap 2.1 |
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Simple command-line incremental backup tool for directories. Create compressed point-in-time snapshots, adding only new or modified files and directories at each time.Uses a catalog so snapshots can be added without access to previous ZIP volumes. Files are automatically numbered with a timestamp. Runs on any OS with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE 6+).... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux,Macintosh] |
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AY Spy 1.4 |
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AY Spy allows you to look up information in the Internet Registration databases all over the world. With AY Spy you can: Seemlessly use DNS, Whois, RWhois, SMTP, Finger, ICMP queries without knowing anything about these protocols. However, if you need technical details, you can always find them in the AY Spy help file.Automatically direct your queries usi... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Sales and Inventory (Basic) 1.19.06 |
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If you have a small business or a home based business and use Microsoft Access, this POS (Point of Sale) package may help you quite a bit.Conduct Sales and Invoices, Purchase Orders, Supplier Contact Management, Inventory Control, and more.No need to purchase multiple software packages and this is very easy to use. Best of all, it is affordable.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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HtmlApp Studio HA-0.90.0 |
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Point and click deploy toolkit for wrapping HTML, HTA, CSS, GIF, JPG, PNG, BAT, EXE, ZIP, and other file types into a single EXE with custom icon. A built-in HTA creator designs rich user interfaces using only html in a native application.During download, an HtmlApp supports information appended for marketing or rights restrictions. Runs directly after ... |
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Easy Accounts Pro 1.0 |
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The World's Easiest Accounting Software, Easy Accounts Pro helps you in Three Easy Steps to produce your accounts. Understand at any point in time the turnover, margins, and Profitability of Your Business.No need for an accountant to produce your accounts. Easy Accounts Pro uniquely recognizes any type of transaction and accurately records the correct "De... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Software Defender 2.1 |
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Software and digital product activation service. Stops piracy of your products. If you can point and click, then you have what it takes to stop pirates from ripping you off and profiting from your digital products, forbid habitual refunders from getting them for free, and prevent your products from being copied without you being paid. Powerful web control... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Teroid Seven Segment Display 2.1 |
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Teroid Seven Segment Display is a .NET Windows Forms Control which emulates the LED or LCD displays used to show numbers on electrical and electronic equipment. It can display an integer or decimal value, including negative numbers, and can be set to display any number of individual digits as either fixed- or floating-point. All colors are fully customiza... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Pool 3D Training Edition 1.54 |
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Pool 3D Training Edition is a unique 3D billiard game simulator that lets you improve your billiard gaming skills effectively by learning game physics on a PC. Just imagine you do not need to pay for a physical table or for a private teacher each time you just want to learn or practice! Practice on your PC every day and pay for a table only when you want ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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JetStart Free 4.4 |
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Tired of digging into crowded Start Menu? JetStart offers you a quick access to categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs and system commands. Just point your mouse to the Start Menu button!You can also place your most used programs and documents into the handy toolbar and quickly run any program by typing few starting letters. Reorder ... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Atrex 12.06 |
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Atrex inventory control/point of sale is designed for the business that needs a powerful business automation tool without a big price tag. Atrex includes invoicing, orders, quotes, purchase orders, service orders, AR, AP, and most every other function that a retail or wholesale business needs. Inventory functions are real time and support serialized ite... |
| [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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