| 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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Bill Redirect Serial-File-TCP Port V1.3E |
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Resident Tray System software for barcode scanner or other serial data capture devices that have a standard RS232 serial interface / file and or TCP Ethernet connection. The program will redirect file/serial/TCP Port and keyboard buffer to any direction.Features:Debugger, run in System Tray,Configuration protected by PASSWORD,Upper case option,Macro Comma... |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Gold Calendar 1.2 |
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Gold Calendar puts the day of the month next to the clock in the system tray (near the clock).It tells you todays date, and will update the number displayed when the date changes.
Move your mouse over the Gold Calendar's icon and you will bring up a monthly calendar. |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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HDD Observer 1.1 |
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HDD Observer is the smartest monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives.HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them: - Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature;Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon;Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation;Defragment fi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FLV Video Downloader 1.0 |
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Save Flash videos from Internet sites like YouTube and Google Video to your PC in either flv or avi file formats while you watch them in your browser.The program runs in the background, in system tray, and will ask you to save video when you begin watching one. It saves you time and bandwidth, as it saves videos as they are playing in your browser. Its fu... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Sarbyx 2.7 |
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Sarbyx is a powerful, multi-module utility, which can plan your time and manage your PC. Sarbyx includes an event reminder, organizer, utility quick launch option, smart system manager and many other features. Need to lock your CD-ROM drive or reveal your forgotten password? With Sarbyx, it's easy.Features:User-friendly interface;Multi-language support;Fo... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Flady 1.0.4 |
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Flady provide you an easy and great possibility to download/convert/play your favorite videos from sites like YouTube, MySpace, Video Google and many more.
Flady - gives you access to content you never dreamed of keeping before. Just copy the link and download the video you are watching! The program can be used not only for downloading video, but also fo... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Gexonic E-Mail Notifier 1.0.2 |
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E-Mail Notifier - it is an easy-to-use e-mail client which checks your mailbox for new messages. Application minimizes to the system tray and periodically checks the mail. Notification of a new letter is displayed as a pop-up window with brief contents of the letter. You can create several accounts and check as many mailboxes as you want. You can launch y... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Turn Off Monitor 1 |
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Turn Off Monitor is a Utility by which you can Turn Off Monitor using either a shortcut Key or a shortcut icon or an Icon in System Tray.Turning Off Monitor when not in use saves electricity which is not the same as running a Blank Screensaver.Trial Version Allows to Turn Off Monitor upto 20 Times.Trial version does not have any Nagging Pop-Ups / Reminder... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ClockSmith Lite 1.0 |
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ClockSmith Lite plays the Westminster chimes and tolls the hour. The chimes can be configured to play quarterly, every half hour, hourly, or they can be turned off. The tolling of the hour also has an on/off switch. ClockSmith Lite has its own volume control allowing it to be configured to provide a gentle reminder of the time or to be heard clear down... |
| [License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ZaZaAlerter 2.5 |
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ZaZaAlerter is a windows based ZaZaCHAT Notification System which alerts Operators of an incomming chat session. It also includes Windows Based ZaZaCHAT Operator's Panel.Never miss a chat session againNo need for ZaZaCHAT web based panel to be openZaZaAlerter runs as a service on the backgound in the system tray of your computerVisitor Waiting for Chat, V... |
| [License: Freeware, 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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