| 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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
|
|
TrueCafe 3.2 |
 |
Friendly cyber cafe software with a complete set of features for cyber cafe management:ticketspre-paid and post-paid sessionstimerspricingpoint-of-salea terminal protectionprint chargingreportstraffic calculation, etc.... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Professional Removable Disk Data Restore 3.0.1.5 |
 |
Data Doctor Removable media data restoration software restore lost program files, word, excel, power point, MS Access, text Document from USB flash drive, External Hard Drives, Multimedia Card (MMC), Compact flash, memory stick, Extreme Digital (XD) picture card, Secure digital (SD) card, thumb drive, memory card, iPod, FireWire. Recovery utility recover ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
|
McAfee VirusScan 10 |
|
Trusted by individual users and large companies alike, McAfee VirusScan is the world's premier virus detection and removal solution for a major source of infection: your desktop and remote machines, as well as handheld devices.
With the broadest platform coverage, VirusScan fits seamlessly into any networked environment with a wide array of proactive m... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
|
M8 Free Multi Clipboard 10.00 |
|
CLIPS - M8 is the simplest of all multi-clipboard and screen capture programs. Just have it running minimized and it captures everything you cut or copy from other programs. It keeps the last 25 clips. When you want to paste one back, all you have to do is restore M8 and click on the clip you want. When you move the mouse over the clips, you can see them ... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
OYCO Instant Messenger and VoIP Dialer 5.0 |
 |
Communicating these days is all about doing it as efficiently and as cheaply as possible with the least amount of hassle. Enter OYCO IM, the best way to chat across networks on MSN, Yahoo!, AOL, ICQ and GoogleTalk, all at the same time. It has AES encrypted text chat, video and audio chat, as well as multi-network chat rooms. For those on the go, it even ... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
Astice SMS-Sender 1.1.0 |
 |
Astice SMS-Sender is a peace of software which closes the gap between traditional texting with a handset and/or using a web interface for sending an SMS.
You can send an SMS from almost any Windows application. Astice SMS-Sender reads the phone number directly from the screen.Whether it is a general ledger, an address book or some website: Send an SMS... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
MAPILab Groupware Server 1.3.0 |
|
This product is intended to be used with an office local area network and is developed according to client-server technology. Product provides real-time access to shared message folders stored on the server. From a cliental point of view, folders on MAPILab Groupware Server look and behave exactly the same as folders on Microsoft Exchange Server: the mome... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
|
HPV SOLO PC 2007 |
|
SOLO/PC looks and works the same way as MS Project. Users double-click on their mpp files to instantly view project information.SOLO/PC can also retrieve project data from MS Project ODBC databases or from Share Point/Project Server 2003 website repositories.Features:Gantt ChartTracking GanttNetwork DiagramTask UsageResource GraphResource SheetResource Us... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
TranslateIt! 6.2 |
|
TranslateIt! is an effective remedy for translating new words you might come across while working at the computer. All you need to do is to point the mouse at an unfamiliar word and you'll get the translation in a context window right away. TranslateIt! can translate the words to and from German and English, Spanish and English, Russian and English. Trans... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
CoffeeCup Ad Producer 3.0 |
|
With CoffeeCup Ad Producer everybody will be able to make cool video ads. Simply choose the size of your banner and select your video. Ad Producer will then take care of the rest. To allow you to make your add really special we added the capability of integrating your own graphics and text. This also means that you can use Ad Producer to design really hig... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
|
| 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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
|
