| 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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OraDeveloper Tools for VS 2005 2.00 |
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Powerful Visual Studio add-in designed to automate and simplify the process of developing applications with Oracle. OraDeveloper Tools integrates into Visual Studio 2005 and lets you quickly browse, query, and update Oracle databases from your development environment.Optimized for PL/SQL development with an SQL and PL/SQL debugger, code completion, code t... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Code Summarizer 3.1 |
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Code Summarizer is a Visual Studio package (Add-In) designed to ease code navigation and code browsing. Code Summarizer is an interactive map to your C++/C# code. With Code Summarizer you see big picture and details at the same time. You can switch between them without losing context. Code Summarizer allows you to create a logical map with a collection o... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 |
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XNA Game Studio Express enables hobbyists, academics, and small,
independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows
and the Xbox 360 console using new, optimized cross-platform gaming
libraries based on .NET. This official release enables the creation of
games for Windows XP SP2-based PCs. Combined with an active membership
in the X... |
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ViewonLog for Visual Studio 2005 1.1 |
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ViewonLog is a real-time logging solution that checks the problems while developing the software or testing the software and collects log messages(Text, Dump data, Screenshot) during software usage. It also supports various searching condition and fast searching speed about collected log messages. With the changeable logging policy in run-time, the log me... |
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.NET Win HTML Editor Control 2.0 |
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This is a simple and user friendly control rich text content editor control (GET HTML Output or SET Html Content) for your Windows Application. You can also use this control as a HTML Content Viewer by setting the readOnly property. The main benifit of this control is a nice databinding feature. You can show your database string fields which contains HTML... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP] |
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KUploadPlus 2.0 |
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What is KUpload+?
KUpload+ is ASP.Net File Upload component with Pure HTML Progress bar. KUpload+ allows great control over the upload of huge files (Up to Virtual Unlimited) from client browser to web server through HTTP. It requires no client side software and operates on the server via standard multipart HTML forms as defined in RFC 1867.
N... |
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WinFormWizard for .NET 2.0 1.0 |
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WinFormWizard for .NET 2.0 is a flexible and feature rich wizard framework. Its primary design goal is to provide re-use through inheritance. This design philosophy allows wizard pages created for one wizard dialog to be re-used in another.Wizard pages are added by simply dragging and dropping them from the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox. Once added, wizard p... |
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PlusDock 4.0.0.0 |
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Custom docking windows library, featuring floating forms, autohide panels and redockable windows. Full Office2003 theme support, integrated WYSIWYG desginer support for VS.NET, fast rendering, accurate panel transitions and full documentation.Features:Easy to deploy - Drag-and-drop and start working! Extensibility - Inherit our panel classes and make you... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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VistaSkin.Net 1.1 |
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VistaSkin.Net transforms your .NET application GUI to look like the popular Vista Aero visual style. Once the component is dropped onto your main form it will automatically skin all application forms, controls and dialogs, without you needing to modify any project source code
Aero styles are applied to virtually everything in your .NET application inc... |
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XPButton 1 |
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XPButton Add appealing visual styles to your applications in all Windows versions with this very quick and powerful button. All new default styles (Windows XP, Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005, 3D standard, Flat, Explorer) and themes are supported (blue, olive, silver).Features:Display buttons in 6 predefined styles (3D/Flat/Shaped/Windows XP/Office 2003/E... |
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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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