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White House Official Pushes for Software as a Service (PC World)

PC World – A top official with the U.S. White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.

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Oracle to buy BEA for $7.85 billion (AP)

The exterior of BEA headquarters in San Jose, Calif., is seen in this Oct 26, 2007 photo. Business software maker Oracle Corp. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008 said it agreed to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP – Business software maker Oracle Corp. agreed Wednesday to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the company that pioneered Web services software.


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Sun Lights LAMP With $1 Billion MySQL Buy (TechWeb)

TechWeb – Does the purchase of a widely used open source database system mean Sun is transitioning into a Web 2.0 software company?

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GraFX Saver Pro

Create professional screen savers in record time. Supports over 20 image and video formats as well as all popular audio formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, AIFF, SND, etc.) for background sound.

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Researchers turn camera phone into mouse (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld – Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.

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IBM’s forecasts strong earnings (AP)

A view of IBM headquarters at la Defense in Paris, May 6, 2005. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)AP – International Business Machines Corp. told Wall Street to raise its 2008 estimates Thursday, further boosting a stock that was already buoyed by strong fourth-quarter earnings.


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Attack Code Released for Critical Windows Flaw (PC World)

PC World – Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.

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Researchers Use Camera Phone as a Mouse (PC World)

PC World – Researchers in the U.K. have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.

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Friday, January 18th, 2008

DMT SQL Decryptor 2.7

SQL Decryptor is the powerful tools to decrypt SQL stored procedures, triggers, views and user defined functions in an easy to use Enterprise Manager-like graphical interface. It works quickly to decrypt items in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005. SQL…

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U.S. game sales rise 28 pct in Dec. (Reuters)

Gaming fan Jim Cush, dressed as the character Master Chief from the Xbox 360 video game 'Halo 3', carries his copy of the game after purchasing it during a midnight sales event in New York September 25, 2007. Video gamers, finally emerging from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's bumper crop of best-selling titles, are now turning their attention to upcoming releases. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)Reuters – U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said on Thursday.


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