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.... with Full Integration of mp3PRO. Thanks CestLaVie.

KARLSBAD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2001--Ahead Software AG has now upgraded its world leading CD/DVD Recording application Nero 5.5 with full support for mp3PRO.

mp3PRO is the next generation of the World's most popular audio compression format, MP3. Developed by Coding Technologies and launched by Thomson multimedia (Paris Sicovam: 18453) (NYSE: TMS - news), the mp3PRO digital audio codec has complete backward compatibility with MP3, and improves compression rates and overall audio quality with files that are half the size of the original MP3 data.

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Raising the bar on computing efficiency, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the new Microsoft:registered: Office Keyboard, the company’s most significant keyboard advancement since 1994 when the split-design, ergonomic Natural:registered: Keyboard Elite was introduced.

The Office Keyboard is designed to streamline tasks and increase overall desktop efficiency and productivity with key innovations, including a left-side Single Touch Pad that encourages users to compute with both hands concurrently. This unique feature includes a scroll wheel, Cut, Copy and Paste Hot Keys, and an application toggle switch.

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Thanks to Anthony for this one:

Creative, the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the PC and the Internet, introduces the next-generation Audigy:tm: audio processor and EAX:registered: ADVANCED HD:tm:, two core elements of Creative's future audio developments.

The new Audigy processor boasts four times the effects processing power of Creative Technology's famed EMU10K1:tm: processor, which powers the industry-leading Sound Blaster:registered: Live!:tm: brand of PC audio cards. Its dedicated design makes it uniquely capable of executing the complex audio algorithms required to produce higher fidelity reverb and effects, as well as powering advanced 3D audio imaging for games, music and home studio productions.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of the enterprise, evaluation and developer editions of Microsoft:registered: Content Management Server 2001. Content Management Server 2001 is the Web content management system that enables businesses to quickly and efficiently build, deploy and maintain highly dynamic Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites and is the latest addition to the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family.

Customers looking for a content management product built for the Microsoft platform now have a clear choice, said Chris Atkinson, vice president of the .NET Enterprise Solutions Group at Microsoft. We are extremely excited to bring this high-quality product to a worldwide market, making it easier for customers to quickly and cost-effectively build and deploy dynamic Web sites.

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...to Highlight .NET Business Opportunities With XML Web Services

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- July 26, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that its next installation of the Silicon Valley Speaker Series, scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 2, will focus on the business benefits of building XML Web services on the Microsoft:registered: .NET Platform. Barry Goffe, group product manager of the .NET Enterprise Solutions Group at Microsoft, will discuss how the .NET Platform can help businesses build and deploy XML Web services and will detail some of the business opportunities that XML Web services present to enterprises. The presentation also will highlight customers that have built XML Web services using .NET Enterprise Server technology and the successes they have had with it. In addition, Goffe will examine how the next generations of .NET Enterprise Servers will continue to evolve and more deeply integrate with the .NET Platform, thanks to significant financial investment from Microsoft in its server family.

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