| 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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Web Form SPAM Protection 1.5.1 |
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Web Form SPAM Protection is a utility to protect forms from being scanned, analyzed and used to send SPAM emails. It encodes form source code, so that form spiders can't work with it and can't use it to send SPAM emails. Web Form SPAM Protection can work both with HTML documents (located on the Internet or on a local computer) and with a separate form sou... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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WTM CD Protect 1.98.5 |
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Need a good copy protection measure? Worried about piracy? WTM CD Protect - Protect your software against illegal copy. If you are looking for easy to use, simple and effective CD protection then look no further. More profit with less illegal copies. Allow WTM CD Protect to handle this for you. |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Zemana AntiLogger 1.0.2.395 |
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Anti-Logger, developed to deal with different kinds of malware threats, protects your banking passwords, private emails & chat conversations from spying proactively without needing a signature-based algorithm and includes powerful, anti-action methods. AntiLogger prevents all known forms of malwares which intend to carry out information theft.Features:Ant... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Multimedia Protector 1.3 |
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Protect Flash, PDF, Powerpoint, Video, Images and other file types like Word or EXE. Every document which can be printed with a printer driver can be protected. Predefined workflow without programming.Available in 12 languages. Content Protection / Time limited versions / Software Copy Protection / Network licence per PC, User, Floating Licence / Shop In... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Colock Copy Protection 4.46 |
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Colock is one of the most powerful software-based copy protection locks available today. This lock uses Activation Codes during the process of software registration. By adding just one line of code to the source code of your program (written in any programming language which is capable of supporting DLL function calls), you can use the power of the Colock... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MaxtoCode Professional 3.21 |
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Current .NET obfuscator or encryption tools on the market could still be cracked! Maxtocode put an end to this with our proprietary .NET protection software which utilizes a combination of strong obfuscation, deep encryption and a real- time technology that protects your software while it is being executed at your end users computer, totally curbing decom... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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OpenOffice Calc Password Recovery 1.0.0 |
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Calc Password Recovery will enable you to recover lost passwords and remove protection from spreadsheets created in OpenOffice Calc. The program supports all types of spreadsheets, recovers all types of passwords and removes all types of protection.Features:Recovers lost or forgotten passwords for OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets.Enables instant recovery ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AcroLok 1.0 |
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Lock Acrobat files into a licensable package. Authors can now lock PDF files in a way that requires a license / key to open and display. One file is licensable to as many individual's as required.Automated IPN (and other) registration available. AcroLok protection is totally independent and transparent to the embedded Acrobat security settings. However th... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Water Clock 3D Screensaver 1.0 |
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Water Clock 3D Screensaver shows a wonderfully crafted giant clock located near a vivid waterfall scenery. In this fine piece of work, you can see an intricate gear mechanism shaped as a watermill which gives the contrivance a truly enthralling sight.The screensaver has sleek visuals and supports dynamic lighting so the illumination changes according to t... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AntiDuplicate 2.08 |
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AntiDuplicate makes hardware keys for anti-piracy protection - using your ordinary computer. Software developers can now prepare hardware keys (dongles) from standard USB flash drives!The result is the durable media for software distribution and the USB token for anti-copy protection at the same time. AntiDuplicate SDK contains instruments and samples for... |
[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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