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Industry Leaders Standardize On NVIDIA HD Platforms:

NVIDIA Corporation a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced that industry leading companies, including Adobe, Autodesk, and VizRT, will be displaying their latest NVIDIA based HD content creation and delivery solutions at IBC 2005 September 9-13 in Amsterdam. These unique platforms feature commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products from NVIDIA, a significant transition in an industry traditionally dependent on proprietary systems that are costly to install, manage and upgrade.

MS Completes Acquisition Of FrontBridge:

Microsoft Corp. today announced it has completed the acquisition of FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a leading provider of managed services that help address corporate e-mail compliance, security and availability requirements. Originally announced July 20, the acquisition of FrontBridge allows Microsoft to deliver services for enforcing compliance through archiving, ensuring e-mail availability in the case of a disaster, and improving protection of employee inboxes from viruses and spam. FrontBridge, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, will continue to offer managed messaging services for multiple e-mail platforms such as Microsoft® Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and other SMTP-compliant servers currently supported by FrontBridge.