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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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Web Update Wizard 4.0.0.10 |
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The Web Update Wizard lets you add 'update over the web' functionality to your applications with just a single line of code. You simply upload your revised software files, together with a simple script, to your web server.No server-side processing is needed, so this solution works with any server or ISP. The Web Update Wizard is a single, one-off, non-rec... |
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WodAppUpdate 1.2.7 |
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WodAppUpdate allows developers an easy way to deploy their updates on the host site and let users
to add 'update over the web' functionality to your software with a single line of code.
Works with any development tool capable of generating apps which can host an ActiveX control.
wodAppUpdate uses configuration file it finds on the server of your choic... |
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Web Update Builder 3.2 |
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Web Update Builder creates small software clients that allow quick and easy website updates. No HTML knowledge required! Just add a couple of new tags to web pages, set FTP access parameters and give your customers or colleagues a reason to love you.Features:One-step solution for easy update of web pagesCreates stand alone Web Update Client programsAllows... |
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Updater 1.0.0.1 |
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Updater is an advanced auto update module which enables your clients to check if there is a new version of your application. It is really easy to integrate Updater into your software with the help of a user guide and a lot of examples.Features:No windows servers required to host the updates;Full proxy support;Selective updates to enable update only small ... |
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Driver Magician 3.1 |
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Driver Magician is an easy-to-use and powerful tool for device drivers backup, restoration and update for Windows Operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can res... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Net Update 1.05 |
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Net Update is the fastest and easiest way to distribute all your software updates. Using a powerful client/server infrastructure, client software can be modified or completely updated in whatever configuration best suits your requirements.
Flexible, secure, and reliable. Net Update is a simple, yet comprehensive software update solution. Built on trust... |
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Contacts Clinic for Microsoft Outlook 3.0 |
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Update Microsoft Outlook Contacts Automatically without manual typing,and in 3 steps. Send "Contacts Update Form" to the Outlook Contacts -> Recipients Fill/Edit the Form and Sends back -> Contacts Clinic process the Form and update the changes in the Outlook Contacts. This process saves users a great deal of time and manual effort.The Contacts Clinic's I... |
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YeahReader 2.3 |
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YeahReader is a free program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts.
The program provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification.Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to quickly write messages to ... |
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Dynamic IP Monitor 2.5.9 |
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Most internet service providers assign dynamic IP addresses to their customers. This means the internet address of your computer may change every time you connect, or on certain intervals. This presents a problem if you want to access your computer. Dynamic IP Monitor checks for changes in external and internal IP addresses every 2 minutes and when a chan... |
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FlashUpdate 1.3.5 |
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FlashUpdate is a full-featured and easy-to-use software update solution for Windows developers.Create, manage, and distribute your software updates and patches easily! With minimal effort on your part, your customers can now check for updates to your applications, and install the updates automatically over the Internet.Creating and managing software updat... |
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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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