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Business Wire, July 12, 2004

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McCormick Distilling's Signature Wedding Drink

Looking for yet another way to make that special day even more memorable? Then follow the latest wedding trend and add signature drinks to your reception.

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SUSS MicroTec Wins Multimillion-Dollar Follow-On Orders for Multiple 300 mm Wafer Bumping Lithography Systems in Taiwan

SUSS MicroTec AG (FWB: SMH), a leading manufacturer of production and test equipment for the microelectronics and nano device markets, has recently received orders for multiple 300mm lithography systems from Taiwan based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), one of the world's largest semiconductor packaging and testing companies. The multimillion-dollar orders represent significant follow-on business from this key customer.

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Applied Materials Revolutionizes Planarization Technology with Breakthrough Reflexion LK Ecmp System

Applied Materials, Inc. announces a major breakthrough in planarization technology with its revolutionary 300mm Applied Reflexion LK Ecmp(tm) system. Introducing innovative electro-chemical mechanical planarization (Ecmp) capability on Applied's proven Reflexion LK platform, the new system is the industry's first and only CMP tool to provide this high-performance, cost-effective and extendible solution for copper/low k manufacturing at 65nm and beyond.

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Orchestria Appoints Bo Manning as President and CEO

Orchestria Corporation on July the 12th announced the appointment of Bo Manning as President and CEO. Manning is a twenty-five year veteran of the technology industry, and former President and CEO of Pivotal Corporation (Nasdaq:PVTL) (TSE:PVT) which was acquired by CDC Software Corporation in February 2004. Manning joins Orchestria's founder and former CEO, Pete Malcolm who will continue to play an active executive and strategic role as Chief Technology Officer and member of the Board of Directors.

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Corvil Announces New Product Release

Corvil, a technology pioneer in integrated bandwidth, traffic and quality of service management on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, on July the 12th announced the general availability of CorvilNet 1.1, a comprehensive platform for delivering IP Certainty within enterprise and service provider networks worldwide.

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