Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.
Reuters - The United States faced increasing
inflationary pressures in recent weeks amid slowing economic
growth, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, as it described
conditions in some areas as "grim," "morose" or "bleak."
Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial
shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price
of oil fell.
AP - With the cost of everything from air conditioning to whipped cream rising, many restaurants have been raising prices. LongHorn Steakhouse is passing on part of the tab to its servers.
IBDAC is a VCL/VCL .NET/CLX component library for fast direct access to InterBase, Firebird, and Yaffil servers from Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix. Includes full support for server data types and comprehensive functionality coverage. Main advantages include direct access to server data, full support of the latest versions of InterBase and Firebird, optimized code base, advanced local data handling and design-time integration.
Features:
Direct access to server data. Does not require installation of other data provider layers (such as BDE and ODBC)
VCL, VCL.NET, and CLX versions of library available
Full support of the latest versions of InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil database servers
Support for all InterBase data types
Disconnected Model with automatic connection control for working with data offline
Local Failover for detecting connection loss and implicitly re-executing certain operations
All types of local sorting and filtering, including by calculated and lookup fields
Automatic data updating with TIBCQuery and TIBCTable components
Unicode and national charsets support
InterBase Events support
Advanced script execution functionality with TIBCScript component
Support for using Macros in SQL
Easy migration from BDE and IBX with Migration Wizard
Lets you use Professional Edition of Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix to develop client/server applications
Includes annual IBDAC Subscription with Priority Support
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Microsoft Opens Xbox 360 To Outside Game Creators
(NewsFactor)
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DNS Security Flaw Leaked Before Patches Applied
(NewsFactor)
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Forty Percent of U.S. Gamers Are Women
(PC Magazine)
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