Reuters - Ford Motor Co posted a $8.7
billion quarterly loss on Thursday as it wrote down the value
of truck and SUV operations and cautioned that it did not
expect to see a U.S. economic turnaround until 2010.
Reuters - Dow Chemical Co posted
second-quarter earnings that fell short of market expectations
as its price increases did not completely offset a sharp spike
in energy and raw material costs.
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top
cellphone maker, has ended three years of legal battles with
wireless chip developer Qualcomm and signed a patent
agreement that boosted both companies' shares.
Reuters - Stock extended losses on Thursday
following a report that showed a steeper-than-expected drop in
existing-home sales in June, heightening concern about the
impact of the housing slump on economic growth.
Reuters - A majority of members of the Federal
Communications Commission have reached an agreement to
conditionally approve Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's
purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc , a source
familiar with the agency review said on Thursday.
AP - The number of newly laid off people filing claims for unemployment benefits bolted past 400,000 last week as companies trimmed their work forces to cope with a slowing economy and fallout from a collapsed housing market.
Kat Player is an advanced music manager and audio player to best fit the needs of all music lovers. Very permissive, it supports all popular formats including MP3, MP4, MPC, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMA etc. Kat Player proposes an enjoyable and highly functional and customizable interface which you can actually dress up anyway you like according to mood and occasion. With this program you can create dynamic playlists to include favorite artists or albums by easily scanning all local drives and you can check play anytime the newest tracks or the most played songs.
A very smart feature is popping-up balloon tips while in system tray.
Extra features offer advanced playlist manager with sequential or random play, FreeDB server support,
a tag editing tool and a drag-and-drop window.
The Player bar is conveniently embedded into Windows taskbar therefore never crowding the desktop and user application windows being at the same time within reach. You can set it to automatically start in tray at Windows start up and synchronize directories on start up. You can also rate any song and when wishing to delete an unwanted file you can choose to do it either only from the library or even from your computer.
A very chic and extended transparency feature which adds an extra touch to this player by making it as visible on your desktop when you choose to display it as you wish by adjusting the range of transparency whose values range from 0 (completely transparent) to 225 (completely opaque) - (it can really become a “ghost” on your desktop).
You can use the miniplayer to manage your tracks while still having the Kat Player icon available in system tray.
It can also act as a Winamp emulator meaning that programs intended for Winamp such as Evil Lyrics and Foxy Tunes are transferred to the Kat Player. Yet, Kat Player doesn’t stop here - you can listen to your favorite music on the net radio it includes.
Kat Player is FREE to download and FREE to use! NO Adware or Spyware bundled
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AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
AFP - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
Microsoft exec who led Yahoo bid leaving company
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's
largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of
Yahoo Inc , is leaving the software maker.