| 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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Remote Desktop Manager 3.0.0.1 |
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Remote Desktop Manager is a small application used to manage all your remote connection. Add, edit, delete orgnanize or find your remote connection quickly. Compatible with Microsoft Remote Desktop or with Terminal Services, it's a good replacement of the Remote Desktops Snap-in.Features:Small sizeFreeEasy to install, easy to deploy, only one executableAd... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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BlazingTools Instant Source 1.45 |
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Instant Source opens the additional toolbar at the bottom of IE window. It shows HTML of the current page, selection, or an item under the cursor. Also shows and lets you to save all external files on a page - Flash movies, style sheets (*.CSS), scripts (*.JS and *.VBS) and images. It has a built-in HTML viewer and editor with handy HTML, Javasript and VB... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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My Password Manager 2.1 |
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My Password Manager is password management software that outperforms all its rivals. It is intuitive, simple, fast and 100% safe and secure. The program supports multiple accounts and comes with automatic backup options. It uses the US Department of Defense approved 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and comes with a strong password gene... |
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WinRescue XP 1.08.34 |
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Four Tools in One: Crash Fixer, RegPack, File Backup, and Troubleshooter.
WinRescue protects your computer from crashes. Don't spend hours reinstalling Windows XP, restore in minutes with WinRescue XP. Defrag the Registry with RegPack. Backup the registry, important files, and any other files that you select. Get quick access to Windows Troublesho... |
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Add-in Express 2007 for .NET 2007.3.4 |
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Visual toolkit to develop secure and isolated, version-neutral and feature-rich, deployable and updatable COM add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and user-defined functions for Microsoft Office 20007 - 2000. Create application-specific plugins and shared extensions that work on all end-user applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapP... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Diji Album 7.0 |
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Diji Album software allows you to create electronic photo albums. Diji Album files resemble real photo albums and are just as fun and almost as easy to create. You can easily share your albums via e-mail as a single highly-compressed file (viewed with our free viewer) or as a self-extracting album file (no software needed to view), as self-running CD-RO... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FastStone Image Viewer 2.8 |
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FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser,
converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include
image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing,
resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick
access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser ... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer 2.2 |
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Download a free trial version of SolarWinds Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to achieve a new level of visibility into network traffic behavior and trends. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides detailed visibility into network traffic behavior and trends. By leveraging Ciscos NetFlow protocol to extract data from routers, this Orion module provides an in-depth ... |
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TotalRecall 1.1 |
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A lot of different information about a user's activity is kept within the personal computer. Usually the user does not know about its existence. TotalRecall is a free forensic analysis tool to reconstruct Microsoft Internet Explorer (MS IE) activity and some user's activity on the computer. IE caches URLs which were visited by users. MS IE stores its Inte... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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eMule 0.47c |
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eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client.Clients use several networks to create one reliable network. (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad)Kad is now in an open testphase, eMule v0.42 can be enabled to use KadeMule's Queue and Credit system helps to ensure that everyone will get the f... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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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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