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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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Scale Trainer Guitar Edition 1.0 |
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Scales are the building blocks of all music that you will ever hear. The notes in scales are combined to create chords. Scales are used to play solos and melody lines. If the notes you are playing on your guitar do not conform to a scale, they will not fit with everything else being played that does.
Scale Trainer samples your guitar through your compu... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Bill Scale and Balance Wedge Keyboard V3.0A |
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Inputs scale and balance data directly into any Windows programs as if it was typed in using the keyboard. No programming or additional hardware required.Features:Debugger
System Tray running,Mouse control,Support RS232 serial scales,Control multiple Scales,See the weight in real-time on a virtual button,Support mode continuous (stable, on demand, polli... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Biggly Diet and Exercise 1.03 |
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Make your diet or exercising 300% more effective! The Journal of the American Medical Association has found that people who use their PCs in conjunction with weight loss programs lose three times more weight than people who don't. That's the great news, the not so great news is normally it's very complicated - but not any more!
Don't waste time with va... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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Instrumentation ModelKit 3.0 |
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Instrumentation ModelKit is a revolutionary solution in the field of instrumentation and graphic components for .NET. Full featured graphics editor allows creating advanced gauges having unique look and functionality by means of a few mouse clicks.The package includes 130+ ready-made controls: Progress Bars, Meters, Dials, Sliders, Odometers, Switches, Ma... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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NYacad Symbols v5 5 |
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NYacad Symbols - VBA application for adding frequently used symbols and structural shapes into AutoCAD drawings: - SECTION MARKS (4 types) - TITLES (8 types) - BUBBLES (3 types) - GRID BUBBLES - MARKS: revision, centerline, round and slotted hole, elevation and others - SECTIONS of channels, tubes and pipes - OPENINGS and rectangles Properties of blocks (... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Noromis PhotoLab 2.20 |
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Process all your photos in a batch and enjoy your digital memories.
Noromis PhotoLab is the first photo printing software that lets you transfer photos from your digital camera, automatically enhance, and then print at home in just two mouse clicks. Built-in intelligence automatically adjusts exposure, contrast, color balance, saturation and sharpness, ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Postman Professional 8.6 |
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Whether you want to send ten or millions of emails, HTML or text, with or without attachments, our Postman manages this for you. You can also define a time scale or limit the sending of the emails.Of course you want that all your customers receive the message and no email will be removed by a spam filter falsely. This is also not a problem for this softwa... |
[License: Shareware, 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 ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: 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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