| 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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Google Desktop Search |
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Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer
and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full
text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and
web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable,
Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees
you ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Effective File Search 4.3 |
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Effective File Search is an advanced tool for versatile file search. All a user needs is to specify the file's date, size and any keyword within it. Effective File Search is a very flexible utility - it combines all these attributes and uses AND/OR/NOT operators. When a user found the files, they can be copied or renamed. The results of search can be save... |
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JobFinder 1.0 |
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JobFinder - a free program from MetaFind Software. With JobFinder, you can: Search up to twenty-two Job Search Web Sites at once; Save and Print your searches; Automatically search every time the program is run; and of course FIND THAT DREAM JOB!! What's the catch? There is no catch, no form to fill out, you won't be asked for your email address, ... |
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Worksheet Search 2.0.1 |
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Worksheet search and activation add-in for Microsoft Excel. Worksheet search integrates into the Excel toolbar and adds a quick worksheet search using sheet name or a wildcard.The main purpose of the add-in is to help people using Excel workbooks with a large number of sheets to quickly switch between the required sheets.Features:Go to required worksheet ... |
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CRE Loaded TheFind.com Data Feed 1.0 |
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CRE Loaded TheFind.com Data Feed is an CRE Loaded contribution which outstandingly eases your products' export into TheFind.com - one of the best Pay-Per-Click services.
TheFind.com is a shopping search engine that is dedicated to delivering the most satisfying online search experience for you - the time-crunched, savvy shopper.Patent-pending technology... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux] |
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eBay Misspell Search Toolbar 1.00 |
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The Bargaincheckor eBay Misspelled Search ToolBar will save you $1000s of dollars. This is easy to use and installs an uninstalls in seconds. Now you can search many of the popular eBay sites all over the world and the list is growing every day. Plus many other sites.And best of all this is a Dynamic toolbar you will never need to reinstall it. The toolba... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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10-Strike Network File Search 1.2 |
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Search files on network servers and computers. Enter the search phrase or file masks and find the information you need. Preview search results and open found files directly from the remote computers or copy them to your hard drive. Generate and save handy reports. If you are a system administrator, you can find all video or MP3 files that your users are h... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Website Submitter 1.3.5 |
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Here is the easiest web semi-automated promotion tool ever. With our software you will never need to search for places to advertise again. Easily submit multiple websites in one click.
As web surfers rely more and more on search engines, like Google and MSN, it has become ever so important that you make sure everyone knows about all of your sites. How ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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SearchInform Free 3.3.01 |
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Full-text documents search on your desktop. Searching documents similar by content. Fast indexing (6 GB/h). Support of any text formats (txt, doc, rtf, pdf, htm, html) and various data sources.Indexing information systems fields (Access, MS SQL, Oracle, any DBMS supporting SQL). Search with the consideration of morphology and synonyms thesaurus. The 'impo... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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InfoSeek 2.40 |
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InfoSeek - the advanced search tool for targeted infomation, is designed to extract customized information (such as e-mail addresses, phone/fax numbers, Zip codes etc.) from web-pages on the Internet and from files on local disks.InfoSeek is feature-rich, main features are as follows:Pattern Customization - Search for most information with customized part... |
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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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