| 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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Phota 3.6 |
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Phota provides comprehensive tools for archiving and annotating your images into attractive, interactive photo albums. It is an ideal application for people with digital cameras, who wish to immediately enjoy their uploaded photos, without spending alot of time and effort in creating and formatting albums. Images can be added very quickly with a Mass Lo... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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CoffeeCup PixConverter 4.0 |
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Convert all your digital photos to use with Flickr or on your Website, sending in email, posting on auction sites and lots more. CoffeeCup PixConverter is the easy way to batch convert your digital photos for all your needs. Add photos one by one or convert an entire folder! You can Watermark your photos with text and graphics. There is even a snazzy thum... |
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Html Web Gallery Creator 1.0 |
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Do you have pictures that you would like to show to people all over the world and you just don't know how to put them on the internet and create a links to all of them? SoftOrbits Html Web Gallery Creator is the right thing for you. Program creates friendly web pages on which it puts your photos. Every page has a link to the previous picture and the next ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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TabLane 1.8 Build 1075 |
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Tablane is a browser for people who need to find, keep and share information from the Internet.Here are some key features of "TabLane":Multi-Search - Most big browsers are tied in to a particular search engine. We're completely independent and intend to stay that way. Through Tablane you can compare search engines for speeds, quality of results and advert... |
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Broadcaster iGrab 1.0 |
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Broadcaster iGrab finds the videos and images you want quickly and easily! Just enter a term into the search engine, and iGrab automatically downloads a batch of related content. Instantly organize and watch your videos in the iGrab gallery, and save files directly to your hard drive. Keep the files you want and discard those you don't...think of it as T... |
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2Jpeg 5.3 |
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2JPEG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to jpeg format from 50 image file types including conversions from bitmap to jpeg, from gif to jpeg, from tiff to jpeg and so on. The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working in background mode. 2JPEG processes multiple files at a time. If you have a huge number of im... |
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Html2image Linux 2.0.2008.0308 |
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Convert html to bmp, png, jpg and jpeg on Linux Support command line parameters Support jpeg compression quality control Support saving the whole html page to image without scrollbars. Support batch convert a lot of url to images Provide a mini webserver to use html2image in php Support Red Hat Fedora 5 , Novell SuSE Linux 10.0, Red Hat Fedora 4,... |
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Batch Image Commander 1.40 |
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Batch Image Commander is a batch image processor made for command line operation and as a System Tray Icon application for timer based operation. Batch Image Commander allows you to create thumbnails, add text captions, rotate images, resize images, add prefix and suffixs, save as jpeg,jpeg 2000, tiff, png, bmp and gif, convert images to grayscale and neg... |
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Free Photo Viewer 1.1 |
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View photos with this light-weight free viewer. Explore EXIF and IPTC data. Fast thumbnail-generating engine allows browsing your photo albums faster and easier. Manage your photos and organize slideshows. The shooting parameters (exposure, aperture, ISO, etc.) are displayed on the screen. RAW files supported (NEF, CR2, CRW, RAW, ARW, MRW, ORF, RAF, PEF, ... |
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CDH Image Explorer Pro 7.2 |
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The most complete, all-in-one image and video solution currently available. Allows for fast viewing, editing, and management of all your image and video formats! Read and write support is provided for over 70 formats! Over 100 advanced image manipulation and processing features are present. All the standard features are provided (crop, resize, resample, r... |
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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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