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Zoho launched Zoho Start, which integrates Zoho's free online office applications and documents under a single, unified interface. Zoho Start features single sign-on, so users need only sign in once to gain access to Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, and other Zoho applications. Folder support lets users create new folders in Zoho Start, making it easier to organize personal and shared documents. When users log on to Start.zoho.com, they’ll find a "Zoho Apps" button in the upper right hand corner of the screen for access to Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Wiki, Zoho Planner, Zoho Chat, Zoho Viewer, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects and Zoho CRM. Selecting any application opens that application in a new tab within Zoho Start Interface. Personal and shared documents will be available from the "My Documents" panel on the left side of the interface. Documents are presented in either list or box views. Rather than launch new browser windows, Zoho opens each new document and application in a separate tab within the Zoho Start. In addition to folder support, when a user holds the mouse over a specific document, an "Actions" button appears to the right of the document name. Click the button, and users can move the document to a different folder. They can also open, export, delete, tag or share the document. Zoho plans to round out Zoho Start by closely integrating other Zoho applications. http://www.zoho.com, http://www.adventnet.com/

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Mochila, an global online media marketplace for print, audio, video, and photo content, announced a partnership with Clickability, a Content Management Platform. The partnership will enable Clickability's publishing clients to both buy and syndicate content across the Web, and earn revenue through Mochila’s media marketplace. Under the terms of the agreement, Clickability clients can syndicate content to other publishers, creating a broader distribution channel, and earn money by using Mochila’s AdMatch program. With AdMatch, Clickability clients will earn a percentage of the revenue generated by the advertising-supported content integrated into their site. Publishers can also license their content to other Web sites for a one-time fee. In addition to English, all Mochila services are also available in Spanish via Mochila Español. http://www.clickability.com, http://www.mochila.com

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Vivisimo and Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) announced the integration of Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search capabilities with Datawatch|MailManager for E-Discovery solutions. Datawatch incorporated Vivisimo's search client to enhance the compliance and information retrieval capabilities for Datawatch|MailManager customers. Vivisimo's search capabilities integrated in Datawatch|MailManager include: Compliance Management – upon completion of a successful search, authorized users assign messages (and their associated attachments) to a legal case from the Datawatch|MailManager search client. E-mails assigned to a specific case can not be deleted, even if the retention period for those messages has expired, such messages will only be deleted after the case is closed; Enhanced Productivity through Knowledge Sharing – clustering search engine provides rapid full text searching of message subject, body and/or attachments to unlock the organizational knowledge in e-mail. http://vivisimo.com, http://www.datawatch.com

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Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced that it has named hiSoft, one of China's largest IT outsourcing services providers and a long-time member of the Idiom LSP Advantage Program, an "Authorized Solutions Provider." Idiom also named hiSoft to the Platinum tier of its LSP Partner Program, recognizing hiSoft's deep Idiom WorldServer expertise and its continued commitment to increase the use of modern GMS solutions and globalization best practices within its client base. The two companies will engage in joint marketing, business development and technology development activities on an on-going basis. As an Idiom Technologies Authorized Solutions Provider, hiSoft will leverage its IT services expertise to create and offer hosted WorldServer GMS services. For each customer, hiSoft will bundle its managed services around a WorldServer license. http://www.idiominc.com

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Percussion Software announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with NavigationArts, a Web consultancy specializing in user-centered design and development. NavigationArts' partnership with Percussion enables the two companies to better deliver sophisticated Web content management solutions that meet joint customers' requirements for multi-channel capabilities and advanced user experiences. http://www.navigationarts.com, http://www.percussion.com

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Sitecore announced the launch of their intranet portal that enables businesses to leverage their existing web content management system (WCMS) to provide their employees with a visual, connected, contextual information workplace. Sitecore builds out solution packages on top of their WCMS core infrastructure to combine out-of-the box functionality with web content management features. Intranet Portal, the first of these solution packages, is designed to solve commonly required internal communications needs. The Intranet module also is customizable, enabling choice of features including global calendaring, discussion forums, opinion polling, canteens and weblogs and blends social computing technologies with structured content management. Sitecore has combined native .NET technologies, standards, and pre-built CMS functionality into their powerful web management and delivery technology. http://www.sitecore.com

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Vivisimo announced an OEM and resell agreement with Interwoven, Inc. Through this partnership, Vivisimo's enterprise search platform, Velocity, will power Interwoven's Universal Search – Professional Services Edition and will be delivered and supported by Interwoven’s sales channels to meet the business needs of professional service firms. As part of the OEM agreement, Velocity’s integration into Interwoven Universal Search will also be bundled into the next release of Interwoven WorkSite 8 – Interwoven's document management platform – to provide faster and more relevant results from within the WorkSite environment. Based on a service-oriented architecture that enables rapid deployment, Vivisimo Velocity can be up and running quickly. http://vivisimo.com, http://www.interwoven.com

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Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced Interwoven Universal Search - Professional Services Edition, a search solution designed to meet the demands and expectations of professional services firms. Interwoven Universal Search - Professional Services Edition allows professionals to securely search, access, extract, and manipulate all available content within their organization, including the wide array of document management, records management, email archive, and time and billing systems used by professional services firms. It includes dynamic classification technology that simplifies results navigation by presenting them in a logical taxonomy, and the ability to map the search solution to the security model for each system of record used by a firm. Also included are connectors to CMS, Elite, Hummingbird DM, Interwoven WorkSite, KVS, Lotus Notes, MDY, Microsoft Exchange, Open Text LegalKey, and Zantaz. Interwoven Universal Search - Professional Services Edition is powered by Vivisimo Velocity. Vivisimo is a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise. Today, Vivisimo is recognized as an innovative provider of search technology, and has a growing roster of marquee customers, including Airbus, Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly & Co., Procter & Gamble, U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Social Security Administration. Interwoven Universal Search - Professional Services Edition will be available in September 2007 as a standalone product for firm-wide search capability. The Vivisimo Velocity engine will also provide the core search capabilities for the next version of Interwoven WorkSite available later this year. http://www.interwoven.com/

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Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced plans for an integrated solution with Microsoft software for matter lifecycle management and practice support targeted to law firms worldwide. The new solution will combine Open Text's specialized legal industry expertise in matter lifecycle management and proactive compliance, with the collaboration and document management capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The integrated solution will provide complete matter lifecycle management, from matter inception to closure. Firms will be able to manage the intake of new business and potential conflicts of interest, establish "ethical walls" separating client cases, and provide records management and archiving that meets compliance requirements. Working in a matter-centric environment, users will be able to access documents and email in different repositories; perform federated searches across matters; and automatically assign metadata to allow correct classification of documents and pre-population of relevant content. The single point of content management also means that firms can apply retention schedules across repositories in a consistent and centralized manner. http://www.opentext.com

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IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 are now generally available. Research and insight gained from IBM R&D Laboratories and businesses worldwide indicate overall collaboration has superceded email as the key characteristic of their desktop experience. Consequently, Lotus Notes 8 is designed to transform the inbox into an integrated workspace that brings together email, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and custom applications. Lotus Notes 8 integrates work by building in instant messaging and presence awareness, office tools to create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets and infusinga business' custom applications, including HelpDesk, CRM, Sales Force, Discussion Forums, Blogs and more. Lotus Notes 8 is built on the programming model of Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1, which is based on eclipse.org open standards. Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1,enables the construction and deployment of enterprise mashups, also known as composite applications. With the inclusion of the Lotus Expeditor programming model, developers can integrate these same Composite Application capabilities into the Notes user experience. The Lotus Expeditor platform is also separately licenseable. Lotus Notes 8 software starts at SRP of $101 per client. For a browser-based alternative, IBM Domino Web Access clients are $73 per user. IBM Lotus Domino server software starts at an SRP of $14.75 per value unit. Lotus Domino Express solutions for small and medium businesses, inclusive of client and server, start at an SRP of $99 per user. Volume discounts apply. http://www.ibm.com/lotus/

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Recommind introduced Axcelerate eDiscovery. This product assesses responsiveness, privilege and issue relation before the review process begins, helping to reduce the amount of time required to organize and conduct document review and analysis and to increase review accuracy and consistency. Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery offers automatic First-Pass Review of an entire document collection and One-Click Coding of documents. Axcelerate eDiscovery's One-Click Coding feature makes a computer-generated judgment, with confidence score, about each document's relevance, responsiveness, and privileged nature. Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data. The solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and offers contextual email thread analysis. The product's early case assessment tools then automatically extract key documents, people, phrases and concepts of interest, helping attorneys and paralegals understand the contents of a document collection, regardless of its size, before the review process has even begun. Other features include its automated "find all like this" functionality, which uses the system's conceptual search engine to quickly locate similar documents to a sample document of interest, whether a particular keyword was used frequently, occasionally or not at all, and the system’s ability to "learn" across all users by incorporating myriad reviewer responses directly into the automatic coding and review mechanism. Axcelerate eDiscovery is available immediately from Recommind and through Recommind's network of litigation support provider partners. http://www.recommind.com

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Movable Type announced the releases of Movable Type 4.0. "This is the biggest release of MT ever, a complete redesign of both the front end information architecture and the back end scaling infrastructure." Movable Type 4 has a broad set of new capabilities, including: a completely redesigned user interface, more and better plugins, built in support for OpenID, community features, ability to aggregate content from multiple blogs, new support for standalone pages in addition to blog entries, "content management" features, smarter archiving (e.g., by author), more robust templates, and more. They also announced an upcoming open source version. http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2007/08/presenting-movable-type-40.html, http://www.movabletype.com/

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Teragram announced the launch of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, a collaborative technology that allows corporate users to work together on a unique, searchable "wiki" to share information among groups and retrieve data through multiple formats. Additionally, Teragram's Direct Answers technology allows members of the group to search the stored information, returning the answer a user is seeking. For example, if one asks, "What is Bob's cell phone number?," MyGADs will search the user's pages and return the actual number. This search and retrieve capability works not only from an Internet browser, but also from mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, as well as through common IM services. A group of users can create a GAD page using a simple Web editor within MyGADs.com, and access, edit, update, search for and share documents through Internet browsers, smartphones, mobile PDAs, J2ME-enabled devices and cell phones. Much like the consumer version of MyGADs.com, launched in March 2007, MyGADs Enterprise Edition allows users to query the information they store, using a personalized question-answering search engine. As opposed to traditional search, where a user receives a set of links as a result of a search query, Direct Answers returns a simple answer. In addition to processing information stored in a GAD, Direct Answers technology can also connect to third-party applications such as enterprise databases, enterprise search engines, Microsoft Exchange Server and more. http://www.teragram.com/

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Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced it has added significant usability and integration improvements to its Imaging and Workflow solution. The latest release of Vignette Records and Documents helps organizations reduce their risk and deliver greater service by automatically registering records from multiple repositories and providing easy-to-use search and discovery features to aid corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Vignette Records and Documents is now available worldwide with enhanced features including: Support for third-party repositories including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and integration with 2007 Microsoft Office, improved litigation and legal hold capabilities to support governance requirements, enhanced email archiving capabilities, support for RSS and improved desktop integration through Web folder support, and tighter integration with Vignette Portal and Vignette Collaboration. http://www.vignette.com

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OASIS announced that its members have approved DITA version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. DITA builds content reuse into the authoring process, defining an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the Web. DITA supports single sourcing across books, help files, training, and multimedia. It enables modular, topic-based authoring through rich, semantic markup. It incorporates special features for localization, accessibility, and robust conditional processing. Version 1.1 of DITA provides enhanced print publishing capabilities with new DITA Bookmap specialization, including extended book metadata. The standard offers more indexing capabilities with new elements for "see" and "see-also" references. It features new elements for defining structured metadata as well as the ability to add new metadata attributes through specialization. DITA was developed under the Royalty-Free on Limited Terms Mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/, http://dita.xml.org/

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The W3C's (World Wide Web Consortium) most popular service just got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The W3C Markup Validator has a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance. Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an open-source software project, the markup validator is made by Web professionals for Web professionals, and aims to be a major step in any Web development quality process. Read the change log for a list of all changes and new features. http://validator.w3.org/, http://validator.w3.org/whatsnew.html

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Zoho announced of Zoho Viewer, which lets users do three things: 1) view documents, 2) share document as URLs, and 3) embed documents. Users simply upload a Microsoft Office, PDF, or other document type to Zoho Viewer, which provides a link to that document. The link can then be shared with other users, who can view the document from their browsers when they click on the link. Users can also use Zoho Viewer to embed documents in any other Web page. Going forward, Zoho will provide API access to Zoho Viewer for application providers who need document viewing capability, e.g., online storage vendors and others with a variety of documents and document formats on their sites. http://viewer.zoho.com/, http://www.zoho.com

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Antenna House announced the immediate availability of Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.2 offering support for Unicode 5.0, PDF Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), PDF Digital Signatures, PDF/A, PostScript Output (as an option). The new version also supports: surrogate pair characters, pair kernings for European languages, ligatures for European languages, ability to change the glyph of Japanese Kanji, JIS X 0213:2004, Devanagari scripts, improved Arabic Typesetting, PDF1.7, and PDF Digital Signatures. Antenna House XSL Formatter is used for demanding formatting requirements for product technical documentation, manuals and reports. XSL Formatter V4.2 can be downloaded from: http://www.antennahouse.com/

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WorkLight and Dapper announced a partnership that enables organizations to freely mix web content with protected enterprise application data. This cooperation offers businesspeople, the ability to create secure enterprise application/web mashups. Several months ago, WorkLight announced the ability to securely mash up data from disparate enterprise applications. Independently, Dapper was launched to enable the extraction and reuse of content, allowing anyone to create RSS feeds and APIs for any website. With this announcement, WorkLight and Dapper make it possible to combine protected enterprise application information with data from any website, inside or outside the corporate firewall. WorkLight extends the reach of enterprise applications, by allowing your non-technical staff to access the application data they need to do their jobs via tools like RSS, personalized home pages, widgets and gadgets, instant messaging, social bookmarking and others. Its enterprise-ready technology is scalable and conforms to existing and future corporate security and access-control policies. Dapper is a free, web based service that allows anyone to make a feed or API for any website. Dapper is a way to make dynamic feeds that change when the content on the original page changes, or based on user input. The service allows you to create an interactive feed from any website for consumption on any platform: your RSS reader, your iGoogle, your enterprise mashup, your mobile phone. http://www.myworklight.com, http://www.dapper.net

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XyEnterprise announced the release of Contenta DITA 1.4, their DITA-based content management software. The software's new features extend DITA Specialization support to all out-of-the-box tools, enhance DITA Author Support for the latest authoring tools, provide collaborative review using XMetaL Reviewer, support the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit, integrate with SDL's Translation Management System, and provide enhanced graphics support for print and online delivery formats. http://www.xyenterprise.com/

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