| 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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Animated Chart 2.1 |
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Animated Chart creates charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash format for publishing them to web sites.
All items and structures of the charts are customizable by clicking on the chart preview directly.Select a chart type: Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Doughnut, Line, Pie, Scatter, Radar, Stock; for Flash 8 format set animation effects for every chart ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Flash SlideShow Engine 1.1 |
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Flash SlideShow Engine is a Delphi powerful component to create Flash animation like slideshow with different transition and transformation effects.Flash SlideShow Engine features:supports the following image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, EMF, WMF etc.;an existing animation movie (swf) can be used to creating another one;two sound type (MP3 format): common... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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A2 Flash Slide Show 3.0 |
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A2 Flash Slideshow is an affordable upgradable Flash suite, both powerful and easy to use. It is ideal for design and creating in minutes just as you like for your customer’s websites a wide range of high-impact multimedia flash slideshow, flash photogallery, flash portfolio with pan and zoom camera effects, interactive controls menu and more.It features ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PowerPoint to Flash Converter 2.0 |
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presentation tools: PPT2Flash software, PPT to Flash software, PowerPoint to Flash software, Create engaging flash or swf presentation, demonstration, training course, and home slide show. Convert PPT with PowerPoint Converter software, The comprehensive PowerPoint Converter and manipulator, free trial available, convert powerpoint to swf, convert powerpo... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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VeryDOC PowerPoint to Flash Converter 2.0 |
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VeryDOC presentation tools: PPT2Flash software, PPT to Flash software, PowerPoint to Flash software, Create engaging flash or swf presentation, demonstration, training course, and home slide show. Convert PPT with PowerPoint Converter software, The comprehensive PowerPoint Converter and manipulator, free trial available, convert powerpoint to swf, convert... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Presentation Manager 2.00 |
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Presentation Manager offers a Powerful and Flexible solution for displaying slide show presentations on large screens using video projectors, typically in the following environments:
- Business Presentations
- Church sermons and song items
- Performances such as concerts
- Conferences
- School Assemblies, Lectures, Presentations and Performances
-... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Windows Photo Slider Show 5.6.0.1120 |
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WinPhotoSliderShow is an 1-2-3 easy-to-use and powerful photos slide show tool.It share your digital photos, and transform them into amazing musical PhotoShows.Just by click "add photos","add audios", and then "make" buttons.WinPhotoSliderShow will creates slide-shows with these photos,audios, and up to 500+ transition effects.WinPhotoSliderShow supports ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Quick Slide Show 2.26 |
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Creating presentations, teaching materials, family albums, screen savers, Flash slide show. "Quick Slide Show" is an indispensable tool for: - sales managers in making presentations of goods and services, - web-developers in making flash movies, - teachers and educational specialists in preparing interactive teaching material for their lessons and lectur... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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GSA Photo Manager 1.0.1 |
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With the GSA Photo Manager the selection of your favourite photos is a breeze, whether for organizing slide shows or simply for viewing and selecting photos. Make your choice quickly and targeted within an single scroll or switch to a multiple photo preview to make your decision by comparison (images can be rotated in both modes). The images of the result... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PowerPointPipe Search and Replace 2.7 |
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PowerPointPipe is used by IT personnel to change hyperlinks when a server gets renamed, by SMEs and large organizations when they change their contact details/name/etc, by translators to apply massive search/replace lists - the list of uses is endless. PowerPointPipe can change millions of documents, and make multiple changes simultaneously. It can be aut... |
[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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