Investors who purchased auction rate securities were met with shock when they tried to cash in on their investments and were declined access recently. While banks and brokerage firms pitched these auction rate securities to investors as short term, ultra safe cash alternatives, the securities are, in fact, long term bonds with interest rates set at weekly "auctions" held by the same firms that packaged and sold the securities to begin with. (PRWeb May 3, 2008)

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As organizations upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista, many will need to also examine whether their screen-scraping applications can also be used with the latest Microsoft Windows operating system. (PRWeb May 3, 2008)

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