| 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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AutoCAD to Flash Converter 1.27 |
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AutoCAD to Flash Converter let you Flash your AutoCAD DWG files.The best way to share and publish AutoCAD DWG files on the web,better than DWF.AutoCAD to Flash Converter is a dwg viewer without need of dwg viewer.NO need of additional viewer or plug-in to view flash.AutoCAD to Flash Converter is a vector to vector converter.
AutoCAD to Flash Converter is... |
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Flash to Video Converter 1.22 |
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Flash to Video Converter is a powerful utility that converts Macromedia Flash SWF files to video (avi, mpeg, mp4) including movie clips, action scripts and audio in the Flash movies. It is designed to convert Flash SWF to video format playable on any mobile device.With Flash to iPod Converter, you can easily turn your Flash videos into memorable projects ... |
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Alive Video to Flash Converter 1.0.6.8 |
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Alive Video to Flash Converter is an easy-to-use video converter to convert popular video to Flash FLV and SWF streaming Macromedia Flash video format. It supports all popular video formats, such as AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, MOV, MPG, MOD, QickTime, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, GIF, DV, MJPEG, VOB, WMV, ASF.So you can convert the above videos to Flash SWF and FLV for... |
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AVI2Flash Converter 1.3c |
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AVI2Flash Converter is a simple utility to convert AVI video movies into Macromedia Flash video (SWF or FLV). The AVI movies can be converted with different video/audio quality settings, frame resizing etc...Highly effective compression algorithm (Sorenson Squeeze) allow you to obtain small size and quality SWF movies. The output SWF movie can be linked ... |
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Fast Video to GIF SWF Converter 3.1 |
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Fast Video to GIF SWF Converter is an easy to use and powerful conversion tool that lets you convert video file such as AVI (DivX, XviD), MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, WMV, and ASF formats to animated GIF and SWF flash files. Ability to define size and quality on converted GIF or SWF file.Control over Color Optimization (Standard, Dither, Optimal, Dither + Opt... |
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SwfDrop 0.9c |
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"SWFDROP" is the SWF converter for Windows to convert Flash SWF file format to AVI format. It's the best tool to successfully convert any Flash 6/7/8/9 SWF file into a video AVI file that you can play with Windows Media Player (or any video player), where all other tools don’t work.These, along with a variety of video encoding options, make SWFDROP the be... |
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PowerPoint to SWF Converter 2.36 |
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PowerPoint to SWF Converter is a powerful PowerPoint plug-in let you convert PowerPoint to flash.easy of use, accurate conversion, and small size; Features:Accurate ConversionSupports WAV to MP3 conversion Supports narration & audio Steaming large PowerPoint files on the web Ease of Use... |
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GIF2SWF Converter 1.2c |
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GIF2SWF Converter (GIF to SWF) is a simple utility to convert animated GIF files into Macromedia Flash Movies (SWF). The single GIF file can be easily converted as well as whole folder, including one-level subfolders. Command line conversion is supported - it would be great for the Web servers. The output SWF movie can be linked to the specified URL.Featu... |
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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... |
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Convexsoft Animated GIF Converter 1.2 |
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This is an easy to use and powerful conversion tool that lets you convert animated GIF to AVI, SWF flash and various Image formats such as BMP, JPEG and GIF with a few clicks.
Ability to define size, quality and frame delay on output files, It’s also useful for webmasters who want to place graphics on the website.
Special Features:
Super fas... |
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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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