| 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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Mofiki\'s Eve Online Skill Trainer 1.0.0.2 |
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Mofiki's Eve Online Skill Trainer Trial is fully functional for all learning skills. It will change your skills while you are at work, school, sleeping or just not near a computer. For all new characters the Trial will function as if it was a full version. |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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Guitar and Drum Trainer 3.1.6 |
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Improve your musicianship and playing by practising smarter and better. Slow down MP3 music to play and learn new songs at your own pace. Pitch shift music in different keys to your instrument instead of retuning. Filter out unwanted musical parts with a powerful 31 band professional level EQ. Set loop points to listen to and practice the same part over a... |
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Audio Wizard Pro Ear Trainer 1 |
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Audio Wizard Pro is an intense interactive software ear training course for any musician, producer, engineer, or recording hobbyist. Have you ever wanted to learn how professional engineers can hear exactly what's wrong in your mix and EQ it up nice and sweet right away. Do you know what exact frequencies to cut and boost by hearing them in your recording... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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iLanguage 2.2 |
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Edit and customize dictionaries and wordbooks in all languages and scripts. Organize your words in units / wordlists for customized learning sessions with the vocabulary trainer. Take tests, advanced search from both language directions, print customized lists, manage grammatical-examples, record - play word pronunciation, import own wordlists from excel-... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Scale Trainer Guitar Edition 1.0 |
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Scales are the building blocks of all music that you will ever hear. The notes in scales are combined to create chords. Scales are used to play solos and melody lines. If the notes you are playing on your guitar do not conform to a scale, they will not fit with everything else being played that does.
Scale Trainer samples your guitar through your compu... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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WorkoutPlanner.NET 1.1 |
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Gain control of your time at the gym! WorkoutPlanner.NET is a Windows software application that is a complete, easy to use replacement for a personal trainer. It includes a comprehensive selection of standard exercises with detailed instructions for performing each one. You can easily add your own exercise descriptions.WorkoutPlanner.NET automatically sch... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Magic Games 3.6.1 |
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Want to have a refreshing new experience? Take a break and entertain you mind with a dynamic dance of logic in Magic Games Collection. You will discover six brain-twisting puzzles for various tastes, including Magic Lines, Magic Balls, Magic Beads, Logic Trainer, Magic Tetcolor and Combat Engineer. These games will delight you with an incredibly exhilarat... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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iLanguage ML 2.03 |
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Manage and customize dictionaries and wordbooks in all languages and scripts. Easily organize dictionary-content in units/wordlists for tailored sessions with the iLanguage memory trainer.Make tests, advanced search from both language directions, print customized lists, manage conjugation- and declension-examples, import wordlists from excel, access 100s ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MemoAccelerator 1.0.6 |
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MemoAccelerator is a program supporting the process of learning new words and sentences in foreign languages (program can be used also for learning history, biology, etc.). Applied algorithms of repetitions result in vocabulary being assimilated at the optimal pace.The immediate graphic information about the place of the error, the function smart delete,... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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How to Play the Guitar Vol1 5.0 |
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How to Play the Guitar - Volume I, is a guitar tutorial that makes it easy for absolute beginners to learn to master the instrument. Developed by a professional guitar player and trainer, this multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of playing blues, rock, folk, arpeggios, and even classical music on the electric or acoustic gu... |
| [License: Shareware, 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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