| 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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HexCmp 2.30 |
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HexCmp is a program, which combines together the features of a binary file compare application and a convenient hex editor. The program will help you to compare files in binary format, at the same time serving as a hex editor that will edit and modify your files.Comparison is made on-the-fly, while scrolling down the files. Enhanced with features like col... |
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News Ticker Application Bar 1.15 |
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This news ticker constantly updates news feeds from the Internet and displayes headlines right on your desktop. News ticker software docks to the top or the bottom of your screen and displays news headlines from Yahoo or MSN in a form of a scrolling line. Its features include custom colors, adjustable scrolling speed, selectable news categories and positi... |
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JustAjax Table 0.7 |
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JustAjax Table is an Ajax/PHP grid library that allows you to create web-based data grids/tables that behave like desktop software. JustAjax Table offers in-place cell editing, live scrolling, live sorting, PHP/MySQL backend, cross-browser support.Features:Supports all popular web browsers.Populates the data into the cells automatically .On-fly scrolling... |
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Amara Flash Menu and Button Maker 2.4 |
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With Amara Flash Menu Maker you can create professional Flash buttons and menus for your web site fast and easily. All the Flash buttons and Flash menus, you can now make yourself in minutes.Create navigation bars, scrolling menus and sub menus in minutes for your website or Flash project. Amara Flash Menu Maker is extremely user-friendly. The user interf... |
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Stock Ticker Application Bar 2.14 |
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Stock Ticker Application Bar is a software designed for continuous retrieval of stock quotes through the Internet. It is an thin bar that docks to the top or the bottom of your screen and displays quotes of stocks and indices in a form of a scrolling message. Stock Ticker Application Bar is fully customizable, supports major international stock exchanges ... |
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RasterVect 11.8 |
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Vectorizer RasterVect can transform raster images into a vector format. Raster drawing can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. There is TWAIN support for importing from scanners.The target vector formats (DXF,WMF,EMF,EPS and AI) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as AutoCAD and Corel Draw. There are viewing ... |
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No Smoking Screensaver 1.0.0.0 |
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No Smoking Screensaver is a free screen saver easy to install and use. It shows a simple no smoking sign and scrolling text that is customizable. This screensaver was first designed for use in a local computer fair, it was installed and used on a single computer on the fair main entrance... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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OtsAV TV 1.85.001 |
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OtsAV TV allows Webcasters, Broadcasters, Solution Providers, and Businesses to broadcast smooth quality video with automated mixing, scrolling ticker, animated titling, and scheduling. Three editions are available - Webcaster, Narrowcaster and Broadcaster. Mix and beat mix video content at broadcast quality (50/60 motion updates, locked and stable). Outp... |
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GreenBrowser 3.7.1203 |
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GreenBrowser is yet another IE based browser that offers tabbed, multi-page browsing and many additional features including grouped pages, ad filtering, search engine integration, privacy cleaner, form filler and much more. The interface is clean and uses many of the standard IE icons, so it should look familiar for most of it. Additional features include... |
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Deluxe Menus 2.4 |
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Enhance your website with Deluxe JavaScript Menus! Deluxe Menus are the professional solution that allows webmasters to create superior DHTML navigation systems for their web sites.60+ great visual effects, floating, drag-n-drop, scrolling, flat, 3d, XP, Vista menu styles, animated icons and arrows, unlimited submenus and more. Create a cross-browser, s... |
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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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