| 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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CD Eject Pro 3.0 |
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Is a cute little utility that's designed just to open and close your CD-ROM drive. This tool very convenient if you using remote desktop or, say, you have your computer under the desk and CD Eject button is close to Reset. |
[License: Freeware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Keyboard Express 3.3 |
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Keyboard Express is a Windows keyboard macro utility. It allows you to issue just about any series of keystrokes to your windows applications with the touch of a key. These keystrokes can manually be entered in and assigned to over 700 hot keys. In addition, keystrokes can be captured “on the fly” as you are typing in one of your Windows applications. Sys... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Professional Removable Disk Data Restore 3.0.1.5 |
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Data Doctor Removable media data restoration software restore lost program files, word, excel, power point, MS Access, text Document from USB flash drive, External Hard Drives, Multimedia Card (MMC), Compact flash, memory stick, Extreme Digital (XD) picture card, Secure digital (SD) card, thumb drive, memory card, iPod, FireWire. Recovery utility recover ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Easy Disk Drive Safeguard 1.5 |
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Easy Disk Drive Safeguard is a password-protected security utility that you can use to hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for them. When you hide or lock your drives, they become hidden or unavailable in all Windows software such as Windows Explorer, Outlook Express, Microsoft Office and so on.Y... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Email Extractor 4.0 |
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Email Extractor is a powerful and flexible application intended to extract email addresses from various sources. This is an indispensable utility to create targeted email lists using files from your mailbox without any efforts. This fast and easy in usage program extracts valid email addresses without duplicates from such sources as web pages, HTML file,... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Image Assistant 3.02 |
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Image Assistant - is a powerful and easy-to-use utility for batch resizing images. Image Assistant quickly and easily prepares your image collections to be included HTML pages. Image Assistant is also a perfect utility for creating thumbnails. This program works with the major image formats, including JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG.Features:Convert images betwee... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Email Extractor 1.1 |
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Email Extractor v1.1 is the powerful & efficient email extractor utility or application to extract email address from Web-pages on the Internet (using HTTP and HTTPS protocols). It supports operation through a proxy-server and works very fast, as it is able of loading several pages simultaneously, and requires very few resources while running and can run ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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TotalPad 1.50 |
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Very convinient and useful utility. It helps you to store and organize any stuff in two clicks. Just click tray icon or press the hot key, and write down any note into the nice text window.You can use some custom sheets to classify notes - like "Contacts", "Links", or "Passwords". If you have a lot of such information, this tool will really save a lot of ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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sD Card Data Recovery 3.0.1.5 |
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Data Doctor Memory card data retrieval software retrieves deleted gif, riff, tiff, jpg, jpeg, mpeg picture, photographs, snaps, audio video music files folders, clips, xD sD extreme secure digital pictures from multimedia card, PC card, Smart media, memory stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Micro M2, compact flash. Recover application programs office d... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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SpySound 2007 |
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This software is an utility kitt who permits via internet to listen to the content of a microphone installed on another computer. The program contains a part server and a client part to install respectively on each of the stations. The configuration of the IP address makes itself respectively in an INI file on every computer. ... |
| [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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