| 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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My Photos Screen Saver 1.2 |
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My Photos Screen Saver displays photos from your collection in the slideshow mode with added impact of many visual effects and settings.
Simply add your photos on My Photos Screen Saver's settings tab to have the computer display them when idling.You can select the visual effects to apply as well as specify their durations, change the order of display ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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XClock Digital Clock Screen Saver 1.01 |
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XClock displays a very large glowing digital time display when your computer is idle. Advantages of this screen saver include optional flashing time separator (for each second) and slow movement around your screen to prevent burn in. It does not incorporate any advertising or spyware. |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Magic Images Screen Saver 2.0 |
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This screen saver rotates amazing stereogram images. A stereogram is a two-dimensional picture with embedded depth information for simulating a three-dimensional representation. In contrast to other methods for creating spatial depth (e.g. red/green method, polarisation filters) viewing stereograms does not require any further tools like special glasses o... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Xanorama Panoramic Photo Screen Saver 1.0 |
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Xanorama Screen Saver displays a random panoramic photo (several are included, such as Paris by Night) whenever your computer is idle and slowly scrolls to display the full image. Options include stretching, speed and image changing frequency. |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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WG-Screensaver Creator 1.0 |
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With WG-ScreenSaver Creator V. 0.1 you will be able to create all the Screen Saver that desires with little click in fast and easy way. WG-ScreenSaver allows you to create yours screen saver personalizes to you with images JPG, Animated GIF and GIF, BMP, ICO and SWF.You can use all the only and multimediali video ones flash for of the screensaver. WG-Scre... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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F-14 Tomcat Screensaver 1.0 |
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Protect your monitor with photos of the F-14 Tomcat. See more than 60 images of the F-14 Tomcat.
Over two dozen visual effects can appear between images. Plus, each of the photos can be displayed as your desktop wallpaper. Customize the program to your liking with several appearance and behavior options, all accessed from a clean, tabbed window.This sc... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Clock Screen Saver 1.57 |
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Clock Screen Saver is a cool looking screen saver that displays the current time. The program works in analog, seven-segment digital and text digital clock modes. Every clock face is fully customisable. You can choose the time format to display, add current date to desktop, adjust clock size and customize clock color.You can also add glow and afterglow ef... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Monday Girl 1.00 |
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Novelty Screen Savers 3 in 1 Series are group of screen savers titled “Monday Girl”, “Tuesday Girl”, “Wednesday Girl”, “Thursday Girl” and “Friday Girl”. Different Dream Girls star in each 3 in 1 screen saver set. That means each screen saver title package contains three variations of that screen saver.Each one has full version with animation sequences, l... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ABF Slide Show Screen Saver 1.6 |
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ABF Slide Show Screen Saver is a screen saver with cool looking effects and abilities to show pictures ether from local folders or from the web. The program allows to customize a list of folders or URLs, interval of changing, type of effect, background color, image stretching and other options. ABF Slide Show Screen Saver supports more then 130 amazing sl... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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GraFX Saver Pro 4.01 |
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GraFX Saver Pro makes it easy to create professional screen savers in record time! The software supports over 20 image and video formats! It also supports all popular audio formats (MP3, WAV, WMA, MIDI, RMI, SND and AIFF) for background sound. Some of the image formats supported include BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, DIB, PCD, PCX, PSD, PSP, TGA, TIF and ... |
| [License: Shareware, 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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