| Business News |
Oil slumps on easing storm worry and dollar
(Reuters)
Reuters - Oil tumbled more than $5 on Tuesday,
pushing losses so far this week to about $10, as forecasters
said an Atlantic hurricane would steer clear of offshore oil
platforms and the greenback gained against other currencies.
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Alcoa's profit off but tops forecasts
(Reuters)
Reuters - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on
Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter
profit, lifting its shares, as higher aluminum prices and sales
volumes offset higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch sues InBev over takeover attempt
(Reuters)
Reuters - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc sued
InBev NV in an effort to stop its Belgian-Brazilian
suitor from taking any more steps to replace the U.S. brewer's
board of directors, which had rejected a $46.3 billion takeover
offer from InBev.
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Stocks rise on banks and lower oil
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stocks rose in another turbulent
session on Tuesday as a pullback in oil prices eased worries
about consumer and business spending, while financial shares
gained after the Fed chairman said he may keep open a lifeline
for banks.
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Traders plead guilty to foreign exchange scam
(Reuters)
Reuters - Two currency traders pleaded guilty on
Tuesday to defrauding investors, admitting their firm engaged
in almost no trading and that they misappropriated money from
investors and used it to buy luxury homes and cars, federal
prosecutors said.
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Paulson says U.S. home foreclosures to stay high
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Tuesday that home foreclosure starts may hit
2.5 million this year, many of them the borrowers' own fault
for taking out loans they couldn't afford.
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Activity Logger 3.1 |
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Spy software that runs invisible and records how computer has been used. Activity Logger records to a log file visited Internet sites with web page titles, received and sent email (POP3/SMTP), IM chats, keystrokes in and all applications, programs that user runs and work duration in every application.It can take screenshots in specified time interval, wor... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FXstyle Bulk Email Direct Sender 3.0 |
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FXstyle Bulk Email Direct Sender is a professional high speed bulk email direct sender program. This program is a powerful group mailer which sends your message directly from your PC to the recipient's mail server (without using any ISP's SMTP server).This takes the load off of your mail server and speeds up message sending significantly. It gives instant... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Cain & Abel 4.9.6 |
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Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool that enables network administrators to test network security, or home users to recover a variety of stored network passwords. The program reports sniffing and recovery of most popular protocols, including FTP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, mySQL, ICQ, Telnet and others. It can also recover passwords hidden behind asterisk (**... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Email Security 2.82 |
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When you send email messages, Internet Service
Providers (ISP) usually store the messages on their mail servers before
they try to deliver them. This can be a major risk for you because your
relevant information can be viewed and printed on that end, and someday
used against you.
There is only one safe way to avoid it, is to send email messages
di... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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ES Image Printer Driver (Business) 1.2.1 |
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ES Image Printer Driver is a software printer driver that is accessible from any program that can utilize a Windows printer. Images are produced from the driver and stored on a specified drive. The driver is capable of printing 24-bit color images and black and white at 100, 200, 300, and 600 DPI either portrait or landscape.Supports PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF,... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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eMail Verifier (Maxprog) 3.3 |
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Maintain clean mailing lists checking the validity of recipient's e-mails addresses. eMail Verifier can save time and money for businesses who send newsletters to their clients, nonprofit organizations who send bulletins to their members, or any person or business that needs to maintain a clean e-mail contact list. eMail Verifier is your powerful solution... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Macintosh] |
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NirSoft SmartSniff 1.30 |
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SmartSniff allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS)
SmartSniff provi... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Servers Alive 6.0.2056 |
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Servers Alive is your 24/7 automatic server monitoring solution for guarding against server and process failures or attack. Script your own tests plus use our built-in functionality to automatically monitor critical server functions and processes including: PING (ICMP/TCP and IPX),
TCP Services, UDP Services, DNS, Windows Servers, Web Services, Databases... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Mail Commander 8.40 |
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Mail-Commander is a super-fast email client program that does it all - from the everyday sending and receiving of e-mails to managing mailing lists and customer requests. You can set up auto-replies to incoming mail using pre-set templates. Plus you can set up the program to automatically process newsletter subscriptions and requests to be removed from y... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Dynamic IP Monitor 2.5.9 |
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Most internet service providers assign dynamic IP addresses to their customers. This means the internet address of your computer may change every time you connect, or on certain intervals. This presents a problem if you want to access your computer. Dynamic IP Monitor checks for changes in external and internal IP addresses every 2 minutes and when a chan... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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| Software News |
EA says has complied with FTC request on Take-Two
(Reuters)
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth
(AP)
AP - VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Sets Hosted-services Pricing, Irks Partners
(PC World)
PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete...
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
(PC World)
PC World - An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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VMware warns on revenue, replaces CEO
(Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc
warned on Tuesday that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of
expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive,
sending its shares tumbling 30 percent.
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New Yahoo board might lure Microsoft back into talks
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal.
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