| 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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TextTransformer 1.3.0 |
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Analysis and transformation of texts (even in the free version): multiple replacements of words, evaluation of extracted data, conversion and much more. Projects can be tested step by step.Ready projects can be applied to single texts interactively. The integrated transformation manager transforms arbitrary groups of files, e.g. whole directories. Parsers... |
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Key Transformation 5.349 |
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Key Transformation can customize your keyboard layout, change any key on the keyboard to other keys. Its on-screen-keyboard ( soft keyboard ) is very easy to use. Want the F1 key to type B? Want the D key to type f? Want the Shift+Enter key to press Table? Want Shift+1 to type a Sentence? Want an exchange between Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V?Key Transformation can ... |
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XML Converter Professional 6.00 |
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XML Converter Professional is a data conversion software to interactively create XML data transformation. XML Converter unites data from ODBC, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL databases, or from MS Office files into XML documents.It gives you ability to predefine XML transformation template scenario to create an XML with your particular multilevel tagged tree... |
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XML Converter CMD 2.68 |
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XML Converter with command-line interface is a data conversion software tool to interactively create XML data transformation. XML Converter with command-line interface unites data from ODBC, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL databases, or from MS Office files into XML documents.It gives you ability to predefine XML transformation template scenario to create an... |
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GeoDLL (English) 10.20 |
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In the Dynamic Link Library GeoDLL geodesic functions like 2D and 3D coordinate transformation, datum changes, meridian strip changes, user defined coordinate and reference systems, NTv2 support, distance calculation, maps functions, Digital Elevation Models and more geodesic functions are contained to bind them into own applications. WINDOWS operating sy... |
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Flash SlideShow Engine ActiveX Edition 1.0 |
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Flash SlideShow Engine is a powerful component to create Flash animation like slideshow with different transition and transformation effects.Features:supports image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, EMF, WMF etc.;an existing swf can be used to creating another one;supports common and background sound with Pan function;preloader and controller are embedded.
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XML Converter 6.00 |
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XML Converter is a data conversion software tool lets to interactively create XML data transformation. XML Converter unites data from ODBC, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL databases, or from MS Office files into XML documents. It gives you ability to predefine XML transformation template scenario to create an XML with your particular multilevel tagged tree s... |
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Flash SlideShow Engine 1.1 |
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Flash SlideShow Engine is a Delphi powerful component to create Flash animation like slideshow with different transition and transformation effects.Flash SlideShow Engine features:supports the following image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, EMF, WMF etc.;an existing animation movie (swf) can be used to creating another one;two sound type (MP3 format): common... |
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RTF TO XML 5.3 |
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RTF TO XML converts RTF documents (for example, MS Word documents saved as Rich Text Format) into well- formed XML, PDF, HTML, PostScript, TXT, PCL, SVG, AWT, Print, MIF and other formats.Operated from a Graphics User Interface, or a command line, or through Java API, RTF TO XML converter can be used as a standalone application or as part of your own solu... |
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Transform XP to Vista 1.2 |
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Bring innovation into your work without buying a new PC or a system. The best freeware safely installed. The package contains time-tested developments of Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as a convenient substitute - Vista Start Menu. The items of the package complement each other, and do not disrupt your work.... |
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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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