February 2009 Archives

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Security Working Group has published a set of eight Working Drafts. The "XML Signature 1.1" and "XML Encryption 1.1" First Public Working Drafts make changes to the default sets of cryptographic algorithms in both specifications. "XML Security Use Cases and Requirements" and "XML Signature Transform Simplification: Requirements and Design" are documents that we expect to help guide the group's work on a future version of the XML Security specifications that might make more radical changes than the 1.1 series of these specifications. The Working Group would like to receive early feedback on these four drafts. Additionally, the "XML Security Derived Keys" specification introduces mark-up for key derivation, for use with both XML Signature and XML Encryption. "XML Signature Properties" defines commonly used signature properties. "XML Security Algorithms" is a cross-reference for the algorithms and their identifiers used with the XML security specifications, bringing in one place information located in a number of documents. "XML Signature Best Practices" is a revised Working Draft for Best Practices in using the XML Signature specification. http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec

Syncro Soft Ltd announced the availability of version 10.1 of its XML Editor and XML Author. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more. Version 10.1 adds a new, redesigned XML Schema diagram that allows visual XML Schema editing, a new XML Schema documentation engine supporting multiple output formats, new features in the Author visual XML editing mode, improvements in the Outliner and content completion and updates the database support. The new version adds a new visual editing page for XML Schema, in addition to the hybrid text/diagram page. http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html

MadCap Software announced that MadCap Mimic 3.0 and Capture 4.0 are now available. Mimic is MadCap's native XML software simulation application. Capture is MadCap's native XML screen capture and graphics editing software, which is designed specifically for documentation professionals. The newest product versions introduce MovieSync for transferring movie properties between different Mimic movie versions, as well as expanded single-sourcing via conditions, targets, and reusable movie frames and images. MadCap MovieSync, new to Mimic 3.0, is a function that allows users to take two different Mimic simulation movie versions, align the frames that are the same in each movie, and then automatically transfer the properties from the old version to the new one. These properties include objects (e.g., shapes, cursors, typing boxes), timing, sizes, and more. Because many simulation movie versions have a high number of identical frames, MovieSync removes much of the manual labor required to add objects, such as cursors and animated typing boxes, and ensures that their timing is correct. Condition tags in Mimic 3.0 let users tag movies, movie frames, or objects within movie frames for use, depending on the conditions. For example, condition tags can allow variations based on required usage and/or audiences. As in Mimic 3.0, condition tags in Capture 4.0 indicate the circumstances under which certain image content will be included or excluded. For instance, an image might have one callout object for advanced users and another for beginning users. Condition tags for "advanced" and "beginner" can ensure that the right callout appears with the image. The use of condition tags for images and movies will be enhanced further with the next releases of two products that are already tightly integrated with Mimic and Capture: MadCap Flare for multi-channel content authoring and MadCap Blaze for authoring long print documents. Mimic and Capture will be able to automatically access any condition tags created in these next versions of Flare and Blaze. MadCap Mimic 3.0 and MadCap Capture are available today, both separately and as part of the MadCap MadPak. A standalone Mimic package is priced at $299 per single-user license. Capture is priced at $89 per single-user license. The MadPak, which also includes MadCap Flare, Capture, Echo and Analyzer, is available for $1,299 per license. Support fees are $199 per year for the Bronze Level, $299 for the Gold Level, and $499 for the Platinum Level. Discounts for multiyear support contracts are also available. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

CompSci Resources, LLC announced the release of a Web Service which allows any data in XBRL format to be rendered in real-time using its proprietary dynamic processing technology. With this technology, XBRL data available on the Internet can be converted to documents which are human readable simply by supplying the location (or URL) of the instance document. With the increased use of XBRL data to promote transparency in business and financial information, CompSci's Web Service allows public issuers to display their XBRL financial reports without complicated or expensive software. Also, the Web Service gives any person interested in analyzing financial data the ability to convert electronic data stored in XBRL format to standard html, Excel or pdf documents. Xtensible Data's Web site also features the XBRL analytical tools and instance document creation tools developed by CompSci. Xtensible Data's Web site is powered by CompSci's real-time XBRL rendering engine, and offers both free and paid subscriptions to CompSci's web-based XBRL software tools. https://www.xtensibledata.com, http://www.compsciresources.com/

Ingres Corporation announced the availability of the Ingres Icebreaker Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Appliance. Powered by Alfresco’s open source alternative software for enterprise content management, the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance gives businesses a way to manage business content growth. Like other commercial open source solutions, the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance lets IT purchasers pay only for the software and support they actually need. For the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance, Ingres provides the open source database for a company’s advanced data repository needs, Alfresco provides the content management expertise, and their technology runs on the Ingres Database. It is an appliance that allows developers to bring two open technologies together on the open source Linux operating system. The Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance integrates the operating system, the database, and the ECM technology and is installed as a unit, managed as a unit, and maintained as a unit. The Ingres Icebreaker ECM appliance allows users to capture, store, and preserve data, assist in the management of data, and deliver data to customers and partners. To download the Ingres Icebreaker ECM appliance today, please go to http://esd.ingres.com, http://www.ingres.com

One of the most closely watched technology trends for 2009 is the need for enterprises to leverage new web platforms while holding down the costs of managing their ever-proliferating content. Even in the midst of the current economic downturn, critical areas related to global business content will see double-digit growth over the next 12 months - including spending on search technologies which is projected to represent almost half of all digital spending by businesses in 2009, along with rising corporate investment in social media tools (Source: Winterberry Group). Reflecting these fundamental shifts in the way enterprises engage with customers and disseminate information, the sixth annual Gilbane San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com) June 2-4, 2009 at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco – will focus on the timely theme “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” Produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, the 2009 Gilbane San Francisco conference will offer enhanced programs tied to the business issues surrounding a company’s marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference tracks have been organized around the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and where they are most likely to invest, including: Web Business & Engagement; Managing Collaboration & Social Media; Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing; and Content Infrastructure. Gilbane San Francisco brings together industry experts from leading technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms who provide attendees with the latest successful content management and new media strategies, technologies and techniques. In addition to the latest best practices, technology coverage within these four tracks will include enterprise and site search; content globalization; semantic technologies; publishing; XML; and social media tools and platforms from Twitter to business blogs, project wikis and microformats. The just-published schedule of conference sessions can be viewed at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-schedule.html. Pre-conference workshops will feature industry thought leaders covering core topics in web content, new media, Sharepoint and more -- the full schedule of workshops can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/workshops.html. IT and business professionals involved in content creation, management, delivery or analytics wishing to attend the conference may register at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html. Technology solution providers wishing to exhibit or sponsor should visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html. Follow the conference on Twitter:
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Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) unveiled "ControlPoint for Multimedia", a solution to help  customers using Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS) to harness the value of their rich media assets. Powered by Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing technology, Autonomy's ControlPoint for Multimedia uses a conceptual approach to analyze and retrieve the rich media content within MOSS, without relying solely on the manual tagging of metadata. Users are presented with relevant content, both textual and non-textual, that is conceptually related to the selected rich media file. Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia is compatible with rich media formats, such as those used in broadcast, video conferencing, VOIP, CCTV, and customer service interactions. Using Autonomy's  speaker independent technology, Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia enables live or recorded speech to be processed, edited, searched, and hyperlinked as freely as text. Users have the ability to combine conceptual ideas and search phrases with metadata such as date, speaker, inbound/outbound, duration and emotion to quickly cull the most likely content for further processing. A wide range of visualization tools help users categorize files and discern the range of subjects covered by rich media files. Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia recognizes speakers in rich media files, thus helping users to contextualize the relevancy and the importance of the files. http://www.autonomy.com/

Altova announced the availability of XMLSpy Version 2009 (v2009). Available as a stand alone product or as part of the Altova MissionKit, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools, Altova XMLSpy 2009 delivers new functionality, including support for XBRL validation and taxonomy editing, intelligent XPath auto-completion, native database support for SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, and PostgreSQL 8, expanded source code control support. XMLSpy 2009 includes a new engine for validating documents based on XBRL 2.1 and XBRL Dimensions 1.0. This new feature allows users to view and analyze XBRL taxonomies as well as validate XBRL instance documents against taxonomies. XBRL linkbases can also be validated against their associated schema file. Note: XBRL validation is also supported in AltovaXML 2009, the free XML standards processor, providing developers with a royalty-free XBRL validator for use in their applications. A graphical XBRL taxonomy editor is now available in XMLSpy 2009. Intelligent auto-completion of XPath expressions is also provided in XMLSpy 2009. Altova XMLSpy Version 2009 is currently available in Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions. Altova is also reducing its US$ prices across the entire product line, with pricing for XMLSpy 2009 starting at $129 (USD). http://www.altova.com

MadCap Software announced that MadCap Lingo 2.0 is now available. MadCap Lingo, the XML-based, integrated translation memory system and authoring tool, helps eliminate the need for file transfers in order to complete translation. With version 2.0, MadCap Lingo expands translation support to include the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard, Microsoft Word, and a range of standard text and language formats. Additionally MadCap Lingo offers new features to facilitate the translation process. MadCap Lingo 2.0 is the first MadCap product to provide complete DITA support, which will be extended across MadCap’s family of content authoring and publishing software in 2009. Users import DITA projects from any source of DITA content; complete the translation and localization; and then either publish the translation as DITA content or export it to a Flare or Blaze project. Translating content created in Microsoft Word is also simple with MadCap Lingo 2.0, since it now seamlessly imports the content from Word. Users can then complete the translation and export the translation back into Word to be published. MadCap Lingo 2.0 similarly supports the translation of content created using a range of text and language standards, including HTML, XML and RTF. MadCap Lingo 2.0 is available today. Perpetual licenses are priced at $599 for a single license, $1,995 for five licenses, and $2,990 for ten licenses. Subscription licenses for MadCap Lingo are available at $149 for three months, $299 for six months, and $449 for twelve months. For companies that rely on freelancers, MadCap offers the MadCap Lingo Translation Pack for $999, which includes one perpetual license and ten three-month subscription licenses. MadCap’s solutions are backed by a range of service and support options, delivered by MadCap’s US-based team of authoring and technical documentation experts. http://www.madcapsoftware.com

eZ Systems released Apache Solr-based Open Source Enterprise Search solution. eZ Find 2.0, the Open Source search extension for eZ Publish, has a number of new features such as: tuning of relevance rankings, facets for drill-down search result navigation, and spell checking and suggestions on search phrases. eZ Find already included features such as relevance ranking, native support for eZ Publish access rights, keyword highlighting, sophisticated multi-language support, and the ability to search multiple sites containing millions of objects. eZ Find 2.0 is compatible with eZ Publish 4.0 and the upcoming eZ Publish 4.1. eZ Find is free to download and install on eZ Publish sites. It is also a certified extension supported under eZ Publish Premium support and maintenance agreements. http://ez.no/ezfind/download

Bridgeline Software, Inc announced the release of iAPPS 2.5 which includes a series of enhancements for iAPPS Content Manager and iAPPS Analytics. The iAPPS Product Suite is a SaaS solution that unifies Content Management, Analytics, eCommerce, and eMarketing capabilities. The enhancements to iAPPS Analytics include an integrated web content management and web analytics with a publishing impact analysis feature. This capability overlays content publishing dates on web analytics trend graphs, such as exit pages or top pages, to determine how and when changes to web content impact analytical results. In addition, through improvements to graphical trend analysis features, administrators can monitor site activity and changes over time. iAPPS Content Manager now offers full-text search for uploaded site content, including PDF, Word, and PowerPoint documents, and extends overall site security management into search results and front-end display ensuring that only those users meant to access particular content are able to view it in the search results. Additionally, iAPPS Content Manager now includes updated Unicode and multi-lingual support for full inline editing with Unicode character sets. Finally, iAPPS 2.5 offers website user groups for customer-administrator enabled user management of large secure websites to facilitate more effective delivery of persuasive content. This library of Bridgeline certified templates represent commonly needed page layouts and website functionality. Each template is able to be customized to specific requirements, look and feel, and security as needed for a particular website or application. http://www.bridgelinesw.com

Mzinga announced the immediate availability of a collaborative learning solution, The Mzinga Social Learning Suite, designed to bridge the gap between prescribed learning and social knowledge sharing. The Mzinga Social Learning Suite incorporates a broad range of social technologies into Mzinga’s existing learning development, delivery, and management tools, allowing users to interact and share information of their own, for a unified learning environment that lets employees, customers, and partners connect with peers, access prescribed learning courses, share resources and expertise, and benefit from the feedback and ideas of others. The Mzinga Social Learning Suite also introduces new default user interface options that take advantage of the system’s enhanced Site Designer. Using the Site Designer, organizations can create an enterprise-wide learning ecosystem with single or multiple "instances" of their Mzinga Learning site, each with distinct branding, layouts, and languages. When administrators want to modify site homepages, the new enhancements let them drag and drop both formal and social learning widgets o to the page and use simple, in-line property settings to adjust how they display. http://www.mzinga.com

SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) announced the availability of SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing application by UBmatrix, a new eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) application that enables customers to communicate financial and business information, which is required globally by authorities like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. and HM Revenue & Customs in the U.K. SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing promotes fast and flexible compliance reporting and enables customers to leverage their existing SAP investments, including those in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application, SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation application and SAP Business Suite software. The new application is the first in a series featuring embedded UBmatrix technology in SAP BusinessObjects applications, the result of a new partnership between the two companies. With SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing, users are free from the burdens of dealing with complex XBRL syntax. Instead, the application allows users to automatically tag and easily transform this data into "XBRL instance documents" in a drag-and-drop environment. These "XBRL instance documents" are collections of code on which all reports of financial and business information are based, and are electronically filed with regulatory agencies that interpret the information. SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing is flexible, allowing users to extend standard taxonomies (an agreed-upon dictionary used by XBRL to define data tags in business reports) to help differentiate themselves from competitors by providing extra information to investors. Also, integration with Microsoft Office enables business users to incorporate supplemental information from Microsoft Word documents, like the notes and disclosures to the financial statements which are required by the SEC. http://www.sap.com/

Clickability, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Clickability Corporate Solutions to meet the needs of global organizations for a Web business platform. The Corporate Solutions add new functionality that enables organizations to better build awareness, capture, nurture and close business, as well as meet customer needs and manage global brands online. Additionally, Clickability Corporate Solutions is an SaaS-based WCM offering with the ability to publish content to, and receive content from, any browser-enabled device, providing enhanced flexibility for companies and their online communities. Clickability Corporate Solutions now enable customers to publish their websites to the Blackberry, with support for the iPhone planned for spring 2009. The Clickability platform enables multi-lingual publishing, including languages requiring right to left text entry, and adds new ways to associate and manage related content, expediting the translation and localization process. Clickability Corporate Solutions are available now, with a transparent cost structure that includes a contracted implementation fee and a monthly licensing fee. http://www.clickability.com

Kentico Software, a Web content management system vendor, announced the release of a new 4.0 version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The new version combines full-featured Web content management with a social networking platform. Most of the new features in version 4.0 are focused on social networking and on-line communities. The new version of Kentico CMS targets companies that want to leverage Web 2.0 technologies by engaging their customers through blogs, forums, polls, wikis and focus groups. The latest release of Kentico CMS provides a complete set of features that organizations need to build Web sites: content management, e-commerce and social networking. The new Kentico CMS Social Networking Edition supports blogs, forums, polls, user-contributed content (wiki), groups, friends, message boards, media libraries, content rating and improved membership management. The new version also comes with a ready-to-use Community Starter Site that can be easily customized and cut the time and cost of web site development. It also supports content taxonomy based on tags and categories. http://www.kentico.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of "HTML 5" and "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4." In this version of HTML5, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. Learn more about the HTML Activity. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced the availability of BOLT, a fast mobile browser. BOLT provides a desktop-like view of the Internet on virtually any mobile phone, from basic phones to smartphones. Optimized to conserve battery life and data transmissions, BOLT is focused on speed. BOLT offers fast downloads of streaming and flash video, standards compliance, rich media and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC. BOLT allows streaming videos on the average mobile phone from such popular video services as YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com and more. Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens. Features of the BOLT public beta release include: fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets, streaming video capabilities, split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing, add and select favorites and view browsing history, keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection, protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-on, and extended battery life. BOLT is now available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test.  http://boltbrowser.com, http://www.bitstream.com

The Asbru Web Content Management system v7.0 for .NET, PHP and JSP/Java has been released. This version includes: functionality to check the server settings required/used by the web content management system. As default the initial server system check checks for required configuration files and folders and file create/write permissions. Additional and custom system check scripts can be added to check/report on any additional server settings that may be of interest to users in general and for specific local setups; Adds functionality to automatically analyse your existing website files (HTML files, Dreamweaver templates, images and other files) and import them into the web content management system for migration from an existing "static" HTML file-based to an Asbru Web Content Management system managed website. Dreamweaver templates are identified and converted to templates in the web content management system, and defined "editable regions" are identified and converted to content classes/elements in the web content management system; Adds functionality to define your own custom website settings and special codes to use these settings on your website pages and templates as well as in your website style sheets and scripts; Added "content format" functionality for simple text content items and for exact control over HTML code details for special requirements; Added support for multiple style sheets per page and template; and, added selective database backup and export of specific types of website data. http://asbrusoft.com/

SAS announced they are shipping Content Categorization for unstructured and semistructured content. Applying search techniques to content that lacks a well-defined organizational structure just is not effective in gleaning value from data generated by applications, records, business processes, blogs, wikis and external sources proliferating in today’s organizations. Shipping now, SAS Content Categorization parses and analyzes enterprise content for entities and events. It creates metadata to trigger business processes that can improve organizational performance. The new standalone product is powered by a division of SAS, Teragram, provider of mobile and multilingual natural language processing technologies. With SAS, organizations can fully leverage content assets and provide for reuse across disparate departmental repositories, regardless of who owns the content or where it was generated. The graphical interface lets users create an organized information system of categories and concepts. Custom-defined category rules let users classify documents that match a rule and exclude texts that do not. Multiple taxonomists and developers, working individually or in teams, can securely access projects. SAS Content Categorization provides flexibility by applying advanced linguistic rules for unique, identifying terms, increasing specificity and defining category rules to classify documents that match those rules. In doing so, SAS Content Categorization reduces the overhead associated with the content categorization process. http://www.sas.com/technologies/analytics/contentcategorization/index.html

The vjoon K4 publishing system is now compatible with Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the newly released Version 5.9 R8. All K4 modules, including K4 Web Editor, K4 File Manager, K4 Overview, and K4 plug-ins, have been fine-tuned to work with the latest Adobe software. vjoon, the company that developed K4, has also enabled Adobe InDesign plug-ins vjoon Notes Manager, vjoon Overset Manager, and vjoon Revision Manager for use with Creative Suite 4. Additionally, the K4 Web Editor has been upgraded to run on the Adobe InDesign CS4 Server, which Adobe released just a few weeks ago. Along with bug fixes, this release comes with new installation software that features the look and feel of vjoon (formerly known as SoftCare), as well as silent installer technology that makes it easier to roll out the software for large installations. As part of the adaptation to Creative Suite 4, K4 also now supports Adobe InCopy ‘s ICML format. Documented by Adobe, this format facilitates links to third-party systems and improves data exchange. www.vjoon.com

Omniture, Inc. announced that SDL Tridion has become an accredited partner in the Omniture Genesis Network. Using an integration with Omniture SiteCatalyst and SDL Tridion's content management platform, SDL Tridion will be able to modify and manage content delivery to customers' Web sites based on data from Omniture to more effectively convert site visitors. Additionally, SDL Tridion is able to offer its customers Web analytics capability within Omniture SiteCatalyst and its other online business optimization products. Omniture Genesis is a marketing platform that integrates complementary third-party marketing applications with Omniture products, giving customers a single view into their marketing data via Omniture dashboards. This content management integration provides SDL Tridion with insight into marketing initiatives through automated page tagging and real-time data, helping to reduce manual workflow and increase time to market of new projects. http://www.sdltridion.com

DPCI, a provider of integrated technology solutions for organizations that need to publish content to Web, print, and mobile channels, announced that it has partnered with Mark Logic Corporation to deliver XML-based content publishing solutions. The company's product, MarkLogic Server, allows customers to store, manage, search, and dynamically deliver content. Addressing the growing need for XML-based content management systems, DPCI and Mark Logic have been collaborating on several projects including one that required integration with Amazon's Kindle reading device. Built specifically for content, MarkLogic Server provides a single solution for search and content delivery that allows customers to build digital content products: rrom task-sensitive online content delivery applications that place content in users' workflows to digital asset distribution systems that automate content delivery; from custom publishing applications that maximize content re-use and repurposing to content assembly solutions to integrate content. http://www.marklogic.com, http://www.databasepublish.com

Flypaper Studio, Inc. announced the 2.0 release of Flypaper. This version has new features focused on creative content development agencies and enterprise users who are creating large Flash projects such as marketing, sales and training content. The new Flypaper Platform makes it easier to create large scale, high-impact Flash content. The 2.0 version of the Flypaper Platform allows companies creating Flash projects to do more of the content creation themselves, while collaborating online and in real time with outside professional agencies. The enterprise version adds a collaboration feature, a private online repository for storing projects and digital assets, additional storage space, and a software development kit (SDK). With Flypaper version 2.0 companies will have their own private repository where content and entire projects can be stored, accessed, modified and reused across the entire organization. Users have real-time, Web-based collaboration capability and can export any element of a project then collectively mark up, edit, make notes, chat online, and view all collaborators per project. The Flypaper SDK allows Flash programmers to create and convert Flash files to the Flypaper format, making Flash programs and components editable by the customer. It frees the Flash programmer from maintenance, allowing them to focus on creative elements. The component SDK includes templates for Flash, Flex and ActionScript3, along with complete documentation.The Flypaper Flash Content Management Platform is sold as an annual license at $795 for single users, or as an enterprise package that includes five seats for $9,995 per year. http://www.flypaper.com

Atypon Systems, Inc. and Allen Press, Inc. announced the launch of the new BioOne e-publishing site (http://www.bioone.org), hosting both full text journals and books. BioOne's new platform is serviced by Allen Press and powered by Atypon's online publishing technology. The platform adds new functionality and a more user-friendly interface to all of BioOne's community members: researchers, participating publishers, and subscribing libraries. Users can now create personal profiles using the "My BioOne" feature, allowing them to save searches, favorite journals, and e-alerting preferences. They can also make use of article and title-level tools such as RSS feeds, related article, and author searches. The new site offers these participating BioOne publishers previously unavailable branding, customization, and promotional opportunities, including information pages for each publication and society. The BioOne site hosts full-text HTML journal and book content fully integrated on the one site. This provides a consistent user experience and single sign on irrespective of the content they are seeking. BioOne delivers book and journal content together, or separately, from a single platform, and being able to manage the site using a single administration tool from the desktop. http://www.atypon.com

SwiftKnowledge, LLC, a global provider of web-based business intelligence (BI) software, announced  the purchase of essentially all of the assets of SwiftKnowledge, Inc., including all of its intellectual property. The purchase was made by Robert Olson, who assumes the role of chief executive officer (CEO) of SwiftKnowledge, LLC. Olson was founder, chairman of the board and CEO for Stellent, Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based enterprise content management software provider acquired by Oracle Corp. for $440 million in March 2007. SwiftKnowledge, Inc. was a privately held company founded in 1999 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. and Allie Gentry, who recognized the need for easily deployable, web-based business intelligence solutions designed for and used by non-technical business users. More than 10,000 users worldwide utilize SwiftKnowledge products, which are built on an established BI technology that has been awarded several patents for its unique security and scalability functionalities. Olson retained all SwiftKnowledge, Inc. employees, including Moloney and Gentry. Moloney assumes the roles of president and chief operating officer at SwiftKnowledge, LLC; Gentry is the new company’s chief technology officer and chief financial officer. http://www.swiftknowledge.com

Microsoft Corp. disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office system. For customers who are interested in the product, Microsoft also announced ESP for SharePoint, a special offering that allows customers to purchase high-end search capabilities today, with a defined licensing path to FAST Search for SharePoint when it becomes available. FAST Search for SharePoint gives customers a search server that integrates the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into SharePoint Portal Server. FAST Search for Internet Business will extend FAST ESP and will provide a flexible platform for building engaging, search-driven Web site experiences. The product will be available in beta in the second half of this year and will feature new capabilities for content integration and interaction management. http://www.microsoft.com/

Recommind announced the release of Decisiv Email 2.3, the latest version of its e-mail-categorization product designed to improves the process of tagging, filing, and storing e-mail. Included in this release are automated contacts management, enhanced search options and integration with Interwoven’s WorkSite Document Management System (DMS). Decisiv Email 2.3, automatically tags, organizes and files e-mail messages and attachments with a single click by the user, enabling secure, instant access to unstructured information. Decisiv Email  works with preexisting architectures, and with its single object compression algorithms, Decisiv Email reduces the e-mail storage footprint by up to 80% over traditional e-mail archiving systems. Additionally, automatic syncing and creation of new client/matter folders provides seamless project management across applications, including Microsoft Outlook, Decisiv Email and major DMS systems. Other new features include: Improved ease of filing, including improvements to auto- suggestion; Improved contact management - new address book gleans address and contact information directly from e-mails; Improved options for browsing, sorting and viewing data; Enhanced capabilities for full-text and phrase-based search; Increased efficiency, and the ability to perform repetitive actions more quickly. http://www.recommind.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced Amazon Kindle 2, the new reading device that offers Kindle's wireless delivery of content in a new slim design with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. Kindle 2 is purpose-built for reading with a high-resolution 6-inch electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, which lets users read for hours without the eyestrain caused by reading on a backlit display. More than 230,000 books are now available in the Kindle Store, including 103 of 110 current New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases, which are typically $9.99. Top U.S. and international magazines and newspapers plus more than 1,200 different blogs are also available. Kindle 2's 6-inch, 600 x 800 electronic paper display provides 16 shades of gray versus 4 shades available in the original Kindle, resulting in crisp text, and sharper images and photos.  Kindle reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesn't use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays. Kindle 2 offers the experimental read-to-me feature "Text-to-Speech" that converts words on a page to spoken word so customers have the option to read or listen. Customers can switch back and forth between reading and listening, and their spot is automatically saved. Amazon's new "Whispersync" technology automatically syncs Kindle 2 and the original Kindle, which makes transitioning to the new Kindle 2 or using both devices easy for customers. Kindle 2 will also sync with a range of mobile devices in the future. Kindle 2 is available for pre-order starting today for $359 and will ship February 24. http://amazon.com/kindle2

Plastic Logic announced the creation of the Plastic Logic Publishers’ Program to enable all content creators, publishers and content aggregators to easily create, format, sell and distribute content for easy viewing and use on the Plastic Logic Reader. The Plastic Logic Reader is an electronic reader that features a large, thin, lightweight and robust form factor that is about the size of an 8.5 x 11-in. pad of paper and weighs less than many print magazines. The Reader is differentiated by its flexible plastic display that is based on Plastic Logic’s plastic electronics technology. Plastic Logic plans to make its eReader, specifically targeted to mobile business professionals, available in trials and pilots with partners and key customers during the second half of 2009, followed by widespread commercial availability in 2010. Plastic Logic will provide information on creating content, document formats supported, common layout conventions, style guides, and the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The information is intended to make sure publishers, enterprises, and organizations can create content for viewing on the Plastic Logic Reader. In support of this effort, Plastic Logic is also announcing it is licensing Adobe technology to provide PDF, EPUB and Adobe DRM/eBook support on the device. Plastic Logic announced plans to launch a content store concurrently with the Plastic Logic Reader. The Company will work with a wide range of content aggregators, publishers and content creators large and small to offer a wide range of business and leisure content including newspapers, magazines, trade journals, blogs and ebooks at launch. Plastic Logic also announced the first partners to distribute and sell content via its store, including the Financial Times, USA TODAY and content aggregators including Ingram Digital, LibreDigital, and Zinio for sales and distribution of leading digital editions of newspapers, magazines, books and more. http://www.plasticlogic.com

LibreDigital, Inc., announced that Plastic Logic has selected LibreDigital ePublishing technology to serve published content to the new Plastic Logic Reader. As part of the agreement, publishers of newspapers, magazines and other media can deliver their content to the new eReader giving users an experience mirroring and extending traditional print editions. The Plastic Logic Reader, due for release in early 2010, has a form factor that is large (the size of 8.5 x 11-inch paper), "thin, light and robust" - about the size of a pad of paper. http://www.plasticlogic.com, http://www.libredigital.com

Divelements Limited announced today the immediate availability of SandDock for Silverlight and SandRibbon for Silverlight. These products are being used by developers to bring line-of-business functionality to their web applications with cross-browser capabilities. SandRibbon is a comprehensive implementation of the Office 2007 Fluent User Interface, delivering features like dynamic resizing, popup resizable galleries, contextual tabs and conforming to all relevant sections of the guidelines published by Microsoft. SandDock offers dockable and collapsible tool windows, hierarchical tabbed documents and standalone windowing support on a platform that itself has no windowing capabilities. SandRibbon is priced at $199 per developer and SandDock is priced at $149 per developer. Discounted pricing for purchases of multiple licenses is available. http://www.divelements.co.uk

MO Group International (“MOGI”) announced their intention to form a strategic partnership with Clay Tablet Technologies. The partnership is designed to extend service offerings and improving client service, and is focused on translation and localization services, multilingual search engine optimization strategies and online integration techniques. Clay Tablet Technologies will provide software and technical integration support to MO Group. Clay Tablet 2.0 will connect any client content system to the translation technologies in use at MO Group International, reducing content handling effort for all involved. Clay Tablet will seek out marketing opportunities for MO Group International's unique capabilities. MO Group International is a search engine optimization (SEO) firm dedicated to translation, localization and multilingual SEO strategies. Translation and localization services include websites, technical documentation, medical software, and multimedia applications. http://www.mogi.eu.com, http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

Equilibrium announced the release of MediaRich CORE 3.9, which includes: new multi-page, resizable Sonic Flash Zoom and Pan capabilities; built-in web implementation examples; sample imaging and video Hot Folders; new video file-types; and cross-platform Open Office support. French, German, Japanese, and Korean language installers are now available. MediaRich is a management tool for digital media that features a scalable, high-volume media distribution and repurposing engine. It enables companies to create, process and assemble graphics, audio and video files from original sources and then deliver them to websites, wireless devices, and portable devices. MediaRich 3.9 delivers asset processing and templating on a wide array of documents, images, CMYK files and video frames up to HD in size. Digital media can be processed and deployed without having to do any pre-processing, and without the need to create a proprietary format, and with new Open Office connector, installation of Microsoft Office and a server license are no longer required to provide on-demand visualization of Office file types. www.equilibrium.com
 

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, celebrated the launch of version 3.1. The latest software release includes a new graphical user interface design, as well as changes in the underlying interface architecture that improves all around functionality and usability. As well as enhancing the overall look and user experience, enhancements were also made to RSuite's forms functionality, which enables publishers an easy-to-use interface to insert metadata or quickly edit content at the element level of their liking. http://www.reallysi.com

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, announced that it is teaming with IBM to preload Zend’s Web stack with every shipment of IBM i software, the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems, including all hardware that ships with IBM i. Zend’s PHP-based Web solution stack lets customers Web enable IBM i assets and includes support on IBM i for rapid application development and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). With PHP, IBM i users also get immediate access to a the ecosystem of PHP applications and a large professional developer community. With Zend Core, Zend’s Web solution stack, now bundled with the IBM i operating environment, IBM customers now have  out-of-the-box support with PHP on both the IBM i 5.4 and IBM i 6.1 implementations.  www.zend.com/

Following up on its pre-announcement made in November, Nuxeo officially announced the creation of Nuxeo Corporation which will be based in Boston, Massachusetts. Focusing on the development of Nuxeo within the Americas, Nuxeo Corp. will build out the U.S. team to meet the growing demand for Nuxeo's Open Source ECM offering. Nuxeo Corp. is run by Dave Cloyd, as General Manager - Americas, with the support of Eric Barroca, as CEO. http://www.nuxeo.com

Six Apart announced the availability of Movable Type through hosting providers who support the Parallels' Application Packaging Standard (APS) format. Now any size organization can purchase Movable Type via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, making it easier to get a social website up and running on Movable Type. The APS format, which was designed by Parallels, enables hosting providers to efficiently provision and install Movable Type on their existing infrastructure using a standard "socket" for APS applications. As an APS-compliant application, Movable Type is compatible with Parallels' Plesk control panel and Virtuozzo containers. http://www.sixapart.com/

Autonomy Corporation announced the release of Search Process Validation (SPV). SPV offers conceptual search as well as all other legacy search methods, including keyword search. SPV helps users determine the most suitable search methodology to employ at each stage, and guides them through the process by providing transparent logic and auditable results for any of the search methodologies used. SPV mitigates risk and brings added defensibility to the search process throughout the entire discovery lifecycle. Autonomy's core infrastructure software product, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), powers the SPV module in all Autonomy eDiscovery solutions. IDOL embraces all legacy search methods such as keyword, Boolean, metadata, and parametric and others. SPV provides an audit trail, highlighting both conceptual clusters and keywords in the result set as well as any user profiling, entity extraction or metadata elements. Autonomy's Search Process Validation module offers features including: Dynamic Search Tracer - SPV keeps a running, audit trail of the user's search history, with the ability to create snapshots of any (or all) of the relevant steps and results for future re-use and collaboration with colleagues; Advanced Term List Analytics - SPV provides researchers with intuitive statistical and visual tools for determining the impact of search modifications. Configurable views provide representations of term frequencies, stem variants and wildcard expansions; Search Audit - The audit provides such details as repositories searched, search terms used and omitted, query expansions, concepts involved, and the analytics used to arrive at the final result set; Search Journey - SPV delineates the logical path that the search engine took to arrive at a given set of results. It reveals the key concept terms that were found, along with pertinent metadata, repositories searched and the relevancy threshold reached; Real-time Validation Sampling. The search terms used, the percentage of files selected for sampling, methodology used in sampling, and other relevant factors are captured and tracked for validation reporting; Defensibility Reporting - Data statistics, validation, and term list refinement reports can be output for the Meet and Confer, tracked over time, or packaged for final results production, with the ability to include concept and custodian mapping features as required. http://www.autonomy.com

Belgian company Inventive Designers, announced it has geared its proprietary Scriptura document solution to Google Docs. This enables newly created documents to be instantaneously presented to any others involved who are meant to review or amend the document or to act upon it. Documents created in Scriptura v6, such as contracts, purchase orders, confirmations and reports can now be automatically generated from data from the back-end systems (such as a CRM or ERP system or other data sources) and be used as a Google Document without manual intervention. This enables stakeholders who are required to view, amend, edit or jointly work on documents, to be informed, by e-mail for instance. http://www.inventivedesigners.com/

Liferay, Inc., announced the 5.2 release of Liferay Portal Standard Edition. The open source solution provides enterprises a platform that integrates content management, collaboration, and social networking. Liferay Portal 5.2 includes: Control Panel -  A control panel unifies portal administration in a single interface, simplifying deployment and management of multiple websites, team sites, intranets, and customer portals from a shared Liferay Portal infrastructure (multi-tenant portal); Microsoft Office integration - Users can continue to work from preferred productivity suites. Liferay implements the MS-DWSS SharePoint protocol to allow users to save and retrieve documents to and from Liferay Portal as if it were a SharePoint server; Built-in web content management and a content integration framework - allows users to aggregate and publish existing repository content with new content to create websites and collaborative workspaces (intranets, extranets, team sites); Improved Collaboration and Social Networking - Liferay’s built- in suite of social computing tools allows for multiple forums, wikis, blogs and document libraries to be created and matched to specific user groups or knowledge areas within the same site. Terracotta integration with open source clustering software for Java applications shortens development time and reduces the number of application servers and databases required to support Java infrastructures. Full WSRP1.0/2.0 specification support allows for portal publishing from remote servers and gives organizations the flexibility of shifting operations geographically as needed. http://www.liferay.com

Canto announced that Cumulus 7.6.1 is available for immediate download with many improvements, while other updates were included to ease the transition to the architectural updates coming in the company's next product release, Cumulus 8. One of the product's new capabilities is the ability for Cumulus to send automated email notifications when category assignments are made or changed. This enables organizations who use Cumulus categories for project management (in addition to digital asset management) to keep selected employees up to date as assets move through their development pipelines. Enhanced metadata support is now available for Microsoft Visio. When Visio files are cataloged, their entire text contents can be extracted and saved as searchable metadata by Cumulus. InDesign CS4 is now supported by Cumulus InDesign plug-in, which ships with all Cumulus servers. Also newly supported is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. http://www.canto.com

WoodWing Software has released Enterprise 6, the latest version of the company's content publishing platform. Equipped with a new editing application called "Content Station", Enterprise 6 offers article planning tools, direct access to any type of content repository, and integrated Web delivery functionality. Content Station allows users to create articles for delivery to the Web, print, and mobile devices, and offers out-of-the-box integration with the open-source Web content management system Drupal. Content Station works with Enterprise's new server plug-ins to allow users to search, select, and retrieve content stored in other third-party repositories such as digital asset management systems, archives, and wire systems. Video, audio, and text files can then be collected into "dossiers", edited, and set for delivery to a variety of outputs, all from a single user-interface. A built-in XML editor lets authors create documents intended solely for digital output. The content planning application lets managers assign content to users both inside and outside of the office. Enterprise's Web publishing capabilities feature a direct integration with Drupal. Content authors click on a single button to preview or deliver content directly to Drupal and get information such as page views, ratings, and comments back from the Web CMS. And if something needs to be pulled from the site, editors can simply click "Unpublish". They don't have to contact a separate Web editor or navigate through another system's interface. The server plug-in architecture also allows for any other Web content management system to be connected. http://www.woodwing.com/

Open Text announced availability of the latest release of Open Text Web Solutions. This new release offers a number of additional enhancements to the core of Open Text Web Solutions: Helping customers translate, manage and synchronize multiple websites worldwide. The enhanced functionality is part of a complete solution called Open Text Web Solutions for Multi-Sites that aids in developing a global Web presence. It helps large enterprises leverage existing translation memory tools such as Across Systems or SDL TRADOS, and to personalize the user experience. For small and mid-size businesses, it provides a tool for expanding globally. For organizations with a global presence, Web Solutions for Multi- Sites adds new content distribution services that make it easier for Web localization teams to share and update content via a centralized content pool. Once localized content is added to this pool all countries that use the same language can use this content for their local websites. A new Content Translation Management module offers translation workflow integration, expanded support for computer-aided translation tools, and export to standardized XLIFF formats. XLIFF, which stands for XML Localization Interchange File Format, streamlines the exchange of localization data among companies, vendors and across software tools. http://www.opentext.com

MadCap Software announced that the MadCap Feedback Server 2.0 is now available. The MadCap Feedback Server is a server-based feedback system for content development teams that provides Web 2.0 features, such as blog-style comments and topic rating, to enable collaboration among team members and the readers of their documentation. It is part of the MadCap Software documentation family, a suite of products designed to provide a complete content workflow solution, from authoring and casual contribution; to multi-channel publishing of high-end print, online and multimedia content; to content analysis, localization, and collaboration. In addition to enhancing interactions for authors and readers, the MadCap Feedback Server 2.0 also provides enhancements to facilitate management and reporting. The ability to separate the Microsoft SQL Server underlying the Feedback Server from the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) machine means documentation teams are no longer limited to having the database on the same server that is hosting the Feedback Web services. With version 2.0, authors can now reset the topic view, topic rating, and search statistics when they want in order to view only the new statistics. The MadCap Feedback Server 2.0 can be deployed onsite or is available as the hosted MadCap Feedback Service. The Madcap Feedback Server 2.0 is currently being offered at an introductory price of $1,799 per server product license (each product license includes multiple Feedback target licenses for authors to use). The MadCap Feedback Service is offered in increments of 3, 6, or 12 months, with prices starting at $399 for a 3-month subscription. Fees for support start at $799 per year. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

JustSystems announced the availability of XMetaL Author Essential. The move gives the company's European resellers, systems integrators, and other partners, as well as large enterprise customers, a full-featured, XML-based authoring tool that can be integrated into their broader structured content solutions. XMetaL Author Essential lets content creators create information that can be repurposed into the languages and formats demanded by content recipients. JustSystems partners and customers can combine XMetaL Author Essential with content management and publishing systems of their choice to deliver a solution that can be used by writers and reviewers even without XML knowledge. XMetaL Author Essential is available today with prices starting at 441€. http://na.justsystems.com

BP Logix announced the release of BP Logix Workflow Director. Comprised of a workflow engine, project management, a business rules engine, electronic forms processing, reporting/activity monitoring and with the ability to integrate into most third-party and in-house applications and databases. BP Logix Workflow Director is built on an integrated document management and workflow automation platform that enables business users to manage, automate and report on their organization's business processes without requiring more than cursory support of either IT or Development resources. It provides storage, categorization and search technologies for all documents, eForms and workflow processes. Workflow Director 2.0 also provides built-in integration with many third party and in-house applications and databases. The product is scheduled to be generally available on March 2, 2009. http://www.bplogix.com

ABBYY announced a strategic partnership with Workshare. Workshare will integrate ABBYY's optical character recognition (OCR) technologies into its line of document control and content security offerings in order to deliver PDF solutions for the document-centric business processes. Workshare offers document comparison, metadata cleaning and data protection solutions enabling companies to create and collaborate on documents and securely share information with users within and outside the organization. Its products are designed to deliver reliable document comparison and review to help with compliance and risk management that organizations require in order to protect sensitive information. With ABBYY's technologies built into Workshare products, customers benefit from the highly accurate conversion of images and image-based PDF files, making the information available for document comparison, audit and security. ABBYY's recognition and PDF conversion technology converts images and PDF files into editable, readable and manageable text. Its technologies deliver work with documents in 191 languages.
http://www.abbyy.com/, http://www.workshare.com/