Reuters - Freddie Mac won approval
from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome
mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage
finance company may seek $10 billion.
Ford to retool U.S. plants for European cars: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Car maker Ford Motor Co is
drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small,
fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in
Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The government is considering bringing
further criminal charges in the case involving two former Bear
Stearns executives indicted last month related to the collapse
of two hedge funds they oversaw, a federal prosecutor said on
Friday.
EU wants co-operation with SEC on rating agencies: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - The European Commission wants to
cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) on the planned regulation of credit rating
agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported.
AFP - US President George W. Bush assured Americans Saturday that the battered US economy will "pull through" despite continuing housing woes and a spike in inflation.
Pablo Commander is a Norton Commander clone, that offers a side-by-side
Explorer view. It enables you to compare the contents of two folders,
drag and drop files across panes, filter the display, display the
content of an FTP site and more. The program is lightweight and does
not easy to use, as it uses an interface that is very similar to
Windows Explorer, and also integrates the Explorer right click menu.
Key features: Most features of the original Norton Commander like copy, move, delete and dual pane views. Look and feel of Windows Explorer. Full drag and drop support. Customizable toolbar. Multi threaded file management by using shell API for most operations. Changes to file and folders from another programs will be immediately reflected in the views of Pablo Commander. Context menus just like Explorer. Compare the contents of two folders. Integrated FTP client (including FTP to FTP), view/open files and folder just like your local files/folders. Intelligent addressbar to select folders, execute programs, connect to ftp sites and almost every other Windows Shell action.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
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InfoWorld - It's been an educational week. We learned what happens when everyone tries try to activate their iPhones at the same time, what people will pay for free software, and what can go wrong when you tick off your IT folks.
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold,
market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.
AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.