| 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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Just BASIC 1.01 |
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Just BASIC is a free personal Windows programming tool and tutorial. Great for light programming and teaching or learning programming. Create your own utilities, games, business apps and more. Includes a syntax coloring editor, a debugger, and a customizable GUI editor. Large online community. Produces standalone applications.... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Scriptius Free 1.2 |
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Scriptius Free is a free tool for creating scripts that will help you to automate your work with the computer. This script creator does not require any knowledge of programming.It is enough for you to just specify the sequence of commands to be executed and run the project. Scriptius Free is based on a powerful programming language. Scriptius will save yo... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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SWF To Image 1.26 |
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SWF To Image library is a FREEWARE ActiveX programming library for converting SWF into BMP, JPG, GIF images from Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, Visual C++, Visual C# programming languages.For example, you want to display thumbnail for every flash movie in your application or on your web-site. If so then SWF To Image library is exactly what ... |
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Sitecraft 2008 4.16 |
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Sitecraft 2008 is an easy-to-use constructor of web-sites. Use it to build a site with your own hands quickly and without any technical difficulties. You do not need to know web-programming, designer tools or web protocols. We created Sitecraft 2008 using a new programming technology. Easy Updates will help you to get the last versions of the program by o... |
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Barcode Reader SDK 3.3.36 |
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DTK Barcode Reader SDK is a powerful developer library which recognizes barcodes from digital images.
Using this SDK you can integrate barcode recognition functionality to your Windows applications, embedded systems (Windows CE, Pocket PC, Smartphone) and Web services.
The following image formats are supported: BMP, TIF, JPG, PNG, multipage TIF, PDF (Po... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Basic4ppc 6.30 |
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Basic4ppc is a powerful but yet simple development environment which targets both mobile devices and desktops. Basic4ppc supports a wide range of advanced features including: GPS, SQL, FTP, Web Services, Networking, Serial Ports, Graphics and more. Applications compiled with Basic4ppc do not require any special runtime libraries (Pocket PC 2002 requires ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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HelpBuilder 3.01 |
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HelpBuilder provides a quick and easy method to create and maintain Windows Help files. Using a familiar point-and-click interface, help files can be created with advanced features as standard.
Uses Projects, includes SpellChecker, error checking on project build, project Wizard, context sensitive Help. Creates Help files for all programming tools. Quick... |
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Crimson Editor 3.70 |
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Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. It offers Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX and can be extended for other programming languages based on custom... |
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RazorSQL 3.7 |
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Query, update, navigate and manage all major databases from one database tool. RazorSQL is a universal database query tool, programming editor, database navigator, and administration tool with built-in connection capabilities for DB2, HSQLDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Sybase.Any other JDBC or ODBC (Windows only) compliant databa... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Antechinus JavaScript Editor 8.0 |
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Antechinus JavaScript Editor (formerly:Platypus JavaScript Editor) is a first-class programming tool for Web developers who wish to give edge to their HTML pages. Eliminate hunting for code with advanced bookmarking, brace matching and function navigation. Enjoy both JavaScript and HTML syntax colouring and the unique support for algorithmic programming t... |
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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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