| 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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Aspose.Slides for .NET 2.6.1.0 |
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Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to Create, Read, Write and Modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint.It provides support for; Reading, Creating and Rendering connectors, Adding and Modifying fonts/background pictures, Slides cloning, Images clipping to PDF & SVG, Slide show transitions & Shape animations, Add/Modify audio & video ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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SlideshowZilla 1.0 |
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SlideshowZilla is an ultra slide show Flash tools that helps you display photo album and slideshows on your own web site. With dozens of preset themes, you can easily make XML driven photo galleries for website.SlideshowZilla is a template based Flash authoring tool, you don't need to know anything about XML or FLASH coding, there are only three simple st... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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One-click Slideshow 1.0 |
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One-click Slideshow displays your digital photos as a beautiful slideshow. Select the images to display, choose visual effects to your taste, and run the slideshow of your favorite pictures whenever you feel like with just one mouse click.
One-click Slideshow uses a number of stunning transition effects to change images.You can also select the speed of... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Coalesys PanelBar for ASP 4.0 |
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Slide menu web control for ASP with support for IE, Firefox, Opera and others. Web control is an extensively tested COM library, which provides a server-side object model that allows programmatic configuration of the menu. Editor application provides an intuitive layout, on-the-fly preview mode, local and server path options, and automatic source code c... |
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Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.10.2 |
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PPT2DVD(formerly as PowerPoint2DVD) is a stable PowerPoint to DVD software that can directly convert your PowerPoint to MPEG or burn PowerPoint to DVD / MiniDVD and view them on your TV, control them by a remote control,complete with separate configuration of background music, video, slide duration, narration record, and templates.PPT2DVD support multiple... |
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Flash Photo Album Bulider 2.35 |
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Flash photo album builder is a powerful and fascinating tool to make flash photo album which enables you to take your own photos and music to create a personalized and stunning photo album just in a few clicks of buttons with PowerPoint knowledge.Easy-to-use and super convenient for distribution and long lasting.
Flash photo album builder Supports 120+ ... |
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Smart FaxSee 2.00 |
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Smart FaxSee is a smart professional fax viewer and fax to tif tiff converter, offers you a full solution to open view print flip mirror ALL your G3 G4 fax images, and convert other fax to TIF TIFF format.
Smart FaxSee supports many FAX file formats, such as:
1) TIFF fax compressed by MH, MR, MMR, CCITT group 3, CCITT Group 4, PackBits, etc;
2) FMF fax... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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X360 Video Player ActiveX OCX 2.2 |
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X360 Video Player ActiveX Control helps application developers to fully control the audio and video stream. Play, pause, resume, stop, loop the stream. Flip and mirror the videos. Control the playback rate and adjust the volume and balance, or mute the audio stream. You can drawing an overlay bitmap and text over the video.The bitmap can be in GIF, JPEG, ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Coalesys PanelBar Studio 4.0 |
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Visual DHTML slide menu designer with support for IE, Firefox, Opera and others. Studio application provides an intuitive layout, on-the-fly preview mode, local and server path options, fast execution and menu creation.DHTML features include different types of expand/collapse behaviors, sizing options, scrollable lists, animation effects, floating abilit... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Aleo Photo Collage Maker 1.5 |
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Aleo Photo Collage Maker is an easy to use program for creating images collages and digital scrapbooks from your photos. You can select from a variety of collage templates or create your own design from scratch. You can drag and drop your photos to the collage, applying photo frames, masks and shadows, adding decorations of cliparts, calendar images, text... |
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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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