April 2010 Archives

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 product family, design and development software for various creative workflows. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings upgrades of creative tools and workflow enhancements. The Adobe CS5 product family is powering the creation of content and applications for the upcoming releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2, which are designed for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by websites and other sources. Adobe Creative Suite 5 products also integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services for creative workflow. The Creative Suite 5 line-up includes five new versions: Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, as well as 15 point products and associated technologies. Creative Suite now includes Adobe Flash Catalyst, a professional interaction design tool that allows designers to create expressive Web application interfaces and design interaction without writing code. Also available as part of the Creative Suite 5 product family, sold separately or in one of the five Creative Suite editions, are new versions of the Adobe Creative Suite tools, including Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash CS5 Professional, Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5 and more. InDesign CS5 powers the transition to digital publishing with new interactive documents and enhanced electronic reader device support. Image creation and editing get a boost with Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5, which offers better edge detecting technology and masking results in less time. Photoshop CS5 also includes the ability to remove an image element and immediately replace the missing pixels with Content-Aware Fill. New stroke options allow Adobe Illustrator CS5 users to create strokes of variable widths and precisely adjust the width at any point along the stroke. New Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5 provides professional-level typography capabilities with functions like kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, threaded text block and multiple columns. In addition, Dreamweaver CS5 now supports popular content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content from within the product. Performance improvements in Creative Suite 5 include native 64-bit support on both Mac and Windows in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, for high-resolution projects. The NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine allows Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 users to open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD sequences in real time and play back complex projects without rendering. The Roto Brush tool in After Effects helps users isolate moving foreground elements in a fraction of the normal time. Adobe Creative Suite 5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services for key aspects of creative workflow. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time and currently include: Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe Story and SiteCatalyst NetAverages from Omniture. Adobe CS Review enables online design reviews from directly in Creative Suite 5 applications, while Adobe BrowserLab is an indispensable tool for testing website content across different browsers and operating systems. NetAverages provides Web usage data that helps reduce the guesswork early in the creative process when designing for Web and mobile. Adobe Story is a collaborative scriptwriting tool that improves production and post-production workflows in CS5 Production Premium. Access to Acrobat.com services, such as Adobe ConnectNow Web conferencing, is also included to enhance discussion and information exchange with colleagues and clients around the globe. Using Flash Professional CS5, designers and developers can create, test and deliver Web content across a range of mobile platforms and devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks and other consumer electronics. Users can look forward to deploying content in the browser with Flash Player 10.1 and as a standalone application with AIR 2. Adobe CS5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live online services which are complimentary for a limited time. www.adobe.com/go/creativesuite

Singularity released enhanced support for business data management through the launch of Singularity Process Platform v4.4. The release builds on the entity management functionality, case management functionality and additional report building capabilities. Extended Entity Management Functionality: You can now link (associate) entities and also define and use lookups within entities. Access can now be restricted to entity sections and a new Entity toolbox control. Enhanced Case Management Functionality: The case management functionality has been enhanced to give more visibility within your cases. Additional Report Building Capabilities: Report Builder has been enhanced to include a publication process for reports as well as extended filtering and data access capabilities. Graphical reports are intended for better visibility of data and a new Report Viewer control enables selected reports to be directly run within a form. http://www.singularity.co.uk/

Digital publishing vendor YUDU Media announced that it has launched a cross-platform self-publishing solution, enabling YUDU Pro customers to create their own digital publications viewable on the web, iPad and iPhone via custom-built branded apps. This is the first stage towards YUDU’s “publish once, view everywhere” goal, which aims to help publishers expand their reach into new content channels. Availability of self-publishing applications for other major eReader and mobile devices will follow in the coming months. A shortcoming of all eReader platforms, including Apple’s iPad, is their inability to process Flash, digital magazines and other interactive media. Because Flash is the basis for the page-turning technology used by most digital publishing solutions, that means that page-turning digital publications such as eMagazines, eCatalogs and many types of eBooks were difficult to port to these devices. Publishers have two choices: format content separately for each individual mobile or eReader platform, or publish one standard mobile version that would simply stretch or contract to fit different screen sizes. YUDU’s cross-platform solution utilizes fixed-page layouts as well as “rich view” capability, which means that content automatically reflows and adapts to fit the size of each device. YUDU Pro customers can purchase branded iPad/iPhone apps built by YUDU. They upload their master .pdf file to YUDU to self-publish the web, iPhone and iPad publications. YUDU also offers a bureau service for those who don’t wish to self-publish. http://www.yudu.com/

Attensity Group, an enterprise social software developer, announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Biz360 Inc., a provider of social media monitoring and market intelligence solutions. The enhanced Attensity platform is designed to enable customers to listen to, analyze, and take action with their customers through an integrated application. The platform is also ment to serve social knowledge into corporate knowledge-bases. Attensity offers applications geared for email, CRM notes, survey responses, documents, news, web forums, communities, blogs, micro-blogging, and social sites. By joining the capabilities of Biz360 with those of Attensity, the company hopes to better enable enterprise users to participate, respond and engage in these customer conversations. The acquisition also brings a SaaS-based application for organizations to monitor, track and analyze these conversations – now called Attensity360. http://www.attensity360.com/

SirsiDynix, a developer of library automation technology, has announced SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.1 release is available. Enterprise 3.1 allows libraries to integrate Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) from Bowker, a source for bibliographic information. ICE content such as reviews, cover images, tables of content, awards data, fiction profiles, excerpts, summaries and author notes can be indexed and accessed through Enterprise searches, which should result in more search results and improved relevancy rankings. Features in this release include: Social networking and review application integration capabilities; End‐user help guides; Enhanced view of federated search results; Skins available for libraries to use for different Enterprise appearance options. Enterprise is available for libraries using either SirsiDynix Symphony or Horizon. http://www.sirsidynix.com/

The Joomla! Community Portal has announced that Microsft has signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA). Some of Microsoft's code is already present in the development release of Joomla! 1.6 Alpha 2. http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1167-microsoft-signs-jca.html

TEMIS, a developer in Text Analytics for the Enterprise, has announced that it has joined the Endeca Extend partner program to help customers integrate Luxid content enrichment capabilities directly into the Endeca Information Access Platform. TEMIS can now build integrations to the public application-programming interface (API) supported by Endeca. Through the Endeca Extend program, Endeca and TEMIS aim to allow customers to use extracted meta-data to provide new facets for Guided Navigation, cluster related topics, offer landing pages, and improve search relevancy. http://www.temis.com http://www.endeca.com/

Edentity Web Systems Inc. announced the release of the April Iteration of the Agility Content Management System. Each month, a new release of Agility is made available to all users of their software-as-a-service CMS. This release's updates started with the creation of an item count and listing tabs to give more information about forum activity. This way users can see the number of times items have been published or rejected, as well as take care of items that are awaiting review. In addition to this, the ability to send comments with a publish or decline has also been added. These comments can be sent with custom templates to the user who created the record, keeping every user up to date on the status of the posting or update. Moderation improvements include the creation of the roles of Moderator and Senior Moderator, as well as an escalation state and action on UGC records. To keep out those unfriendly swear words from the pages, an Illegal Words list and setting will allow you to block words from some or all user profiles in the system. For those users that consistently cause issues, there is now a flagging option to report abuse and be pulled from the site. You can now designate a UGC field as a ‘Tweet field” and when it is published, the field will be posted to your designated Twitter account. Lastly, developers and users alike will enjoy an improved history tab on every UGC record for change tracking. An additional 93 bug fixes were made according to the Agility CMS blog. http://www.agilitycms.com/

e-Spirit announced a new version of its content management system (CMS), FirstSpirit Version 4.2 Release 2 (4.2R2). It offers new functions and upgrades for editors, template developers, and administrators working in the previously released 4.2 series. The update from 4.2 to 4.2R2 can be carried out without project migrations. Overview of new features: Microsoft Internet Explorer for the integrated preview; Addition of Dutch language; Full-text search in FirstSpirit online documentation and Access API; Mac OS X optimizations; as well as filtering, search, and limiting of displayed data records. As of this release version, e-Spirit is making a few changes to its release management procedure: Rather than the usual "build versions" that were used up to FirstSpirit version 4.1, which included error corrections along with smaller new functions, e-Spirit will now make a clear distinction between two software version types within a minor version series. Bug fix versions will only contain error corrections, while release versions will additionally include various new functionalities. http://www.e-spirit.com

TransPerfect, parent company of Translations.com, and Astoria Software, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Component Content Management (CCM) software, have announced that they have completed a merger. Financial details were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Astoria Software will join the TransPerfect family of companies and will continue to be led by current CEO Michael Rosinski. Before joining Astoria, Michael was a founding member of American Software's management team, where he was responsible for growing revenues to more than $100 million and completing one of the first successful IPOs in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market segment. A key client benefit of the merger will be the integration of the companies’ complementary technologies. TransPerfect develops and markets a family of GMS (Globalization Management System) software products, known as GlobalLink, that make translation workflows more efficient for corporate customers. Clients seeking to author and translate global content in XML, while adhering to DITA standards, will experience the greatest gains from the integration of Astoria/TransPerfect technology. http://www.transperfect.com/ http://www.astoriasoftware.com/

Vesta Digital LLC announced IntelBuilder 2.2 version, which integrates various aspects of online marketing tools and brings them into one web based application framework. IntelBuilder Social Media Website Platform is the first platform that offers web content management system (CMS), social media marketing, and sales lead tracking with reporting and measuring tools. In addition, this website platform comes with built-in search engine optimization (SEO) and business modules that help generate traffic and retain customers on your website. IntelBuilder is a content management system and social media platform for publishing and distributing content on the web. It is designed for easy control and maintenance and allows you to add content pages, edit existing content and remove outdated material from your website. With IntelBuilder users are able to distribute and aggregate web content throughout the Internet – on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Wordpress, Blogger, RSS Feeds, Digg, Delicious – and other social networking and bookmarking websites. IntelBuilder 2.2 offers reporting tools such as measuring and monitoring of online conversations taking place on the website. A blog module that comes with this platform is built into your website and unlike WordPress, is a branded part of the website. Content and Blog administrators are notified of every new conversation taking place on a blog post and are able to automatically engage with that user, auto-follow and send them custom “thank you” message. This active participation creates more meaningful conversations and builds a “true” audience with users who have taken interest or liking to in the company’s product or service. http://www.vestadigital.com

Burntsand Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Open Text Corporation under which Open Text expects to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Burntsand through a Burntsand shareholder-approved amalgamation with a subsidiary of Open Text under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the Agreement ). The Agreement includes customary non-solicitation and right to match provisions and Burntsand has agreed to pay Open Text a termination fee in certain circumstances if the amalgamation is not completed. The directors and officers of Burntsand, and one shareholder of Burntsand, collectively representing in aggregate approximately 21.7% of the issued and outstanding shares of Burntsand, have entered into voting agreements with Open Text to vote in favour of the amalgamation. http://www.opentext.com/ http://www.burntsand.com/

Clarabridge, Inc. announced availability of Clarabridge Enterprise 4.1. This release provides an enhanced framework for understanding customer feedback through intensity-based sentiment analysis, rich data visualization with drill down capabilities, and new wizards and tutorials to enhance the end user experience. To provide a depiction of customer feedback, Clarabridge’s sentiment capabilities can be adjusted across a continuum. Likewise, words used in one industry can have very different positive or negative meanings in another. To address this, users can now weight these words based on their own individual preferences, utilizing the full range of words that express an emotion or feeling. Users can now access greatly enhanced data visualizations which include both unstructured and structured data. Utilizing pie graphs, bar graphs, trend line, and time-based motion graphs, users can analyze data directly within the Clarabridge Navigator interface. Step by step wizards guide users through the complete process of setting up a project.  From creating projects to loading data to running categorization, the need for administrative support is mitigated. In an effort to provide users with support, there are now 40 online tutorial videos on a variety of topics. Users get videos they can watch to address many of the commonly asked questions about Clarabridge Enterprise, available 24-7. Clarabridge 4.1 is available immediately. http://www.clarabridge.com

Telerik, a vendor of development tools and user interface components for the Microsoft .NET Framework, announced the official release of RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight 4. The suite is natively built on Silverlight 4 and offers an environment for developing enterprise applications. A native RichTextBox debuts in RadControls for Silverlight 4; the suite features Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 support, as well as multi-touch support. Both developers and designers can work with RadControls for Silverlight 4 in various environments such as Expression Blend and SharePoint 2010. The controls are integrated within Visual Studio 2010, enabling teh development of Silverlight applications with design-time support. A preview for each control is supported out of the box, as is the Visual Studio 2010 property explorer for Silverlight controls. The Silverlight 4 RichTextBox debuts with features such as rich text formatting, various layouts and views with stunning performance even with large documents, allowing you to easily integrate Microsoft Word-like editing in your Silverlight application. http://www.telerik.com

The Joomla Project has announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.16, the first major release since Novemeber. This version has already been identified to contain two "serious" bugs that will affect certain sites, and users who haven't already ugraded are being advised to wait for 1.5.17 which should release in the near future. http://www.joomla.org

DocZone by Really Strategies, Inc., the software as a service (SaaS) XML content management system designed for publishers and technical publishers, now offers a new pricing model: “Pay Per Page.”  Under this new SaaS licensing option, publishers receive full system capabilities for a group of editorial and production users, with access to all system features and only pay for final pages produced.  DocZone’s capabilities include authoring, editing, workflow, indexing, version control, check-in/check-out capabilities, and push-button publishing to PDF, HTML, and EPUB formats.   http://www.doczone.com/

Celerant Technology recently completed the integration of its content management system (CMS). The Celerant CMS was designed to simplify the task of editing web content, allowing updates to be made quickly with little technical knowledge. Celerant Technology provides a multichannel solution for retail organizations; from point of sale, inventory management, warehousing, E-Commerce and more. The integrated CMS can maintain the content of E-Commerce sites, such as news articles, press releases, images, and videos. Blogs can be created which can feature related products that link back to product pages. Brand pages can be created with customized headers allowing users to increase that brand’s relevance on the web while improving SEO. http://www.celerant.com/

Flatirons Solutions Corporation announced the formation of a strategic partnership with FatWire Software, a provider of Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions for enterprise clients across industries, as well as government agencies.  The partnership will allow FatWire Software and Flatirons Solutions to jointly deliver WEM solutions for customers looking to create a personalized, interactive and engaging web experience. As part of the agreement Flatirons Solutions will be able to supply FatWire customers with services that include content strategy, system design and implementation, business readiness, and change management. http://www.FlatironsSolutions.com http://www.fatwire.com

Inmedius, Inc. has launched the comprehensive Inmedius ATA Publishing Suite, a browser-based solution to manage the lifecycle of ATA iSpec 2200 technical documentation for commercial aircraft. ATA iSpec 2200 is a global aviation industry standard for the content, structure, and electronic exchange of aircraft engineering, maintenance, and flight operations information. The Inmedius software set supports and integrates the key functions of managing, authoring, viewing and publishing ATA data, while providing control over documentation delivery, including support for PDF files and Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM). The ATA Publishing Suite’s modules can be purchased as an integrated production set or as individual components. Inmedius ATAmanager is the document repository, providing project setup and workflow capabilities for controlling the creation of technical data utilizing ATA publishing concepts. Intuitive content creation software, ATAauthorPro XE is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor. With ATAinteract, users rapidly view and share interactive electronic manuals. Output from Interact has the same look and feel as ATA paper documents. That ATA Publishing Suite facilitates Aircraft Maintenance and Task Oriented Support System (AMTOSS) management, document bursting of page blocks, and Document Type Definition (DTD) customization. www.inmediusATA.com

Océ, a provider of digital document management and delivery, announced the Océ Automated Book Production Solution. Océ Automated Book Production Solution is designed for automation and workflow simplification, with minimal negative impact on existing business environments. The patent pending Automated Book Production Solution is designed to help avoid the challenges of short-run workflow: Setup times of finishing solutions; Process control; Job hand-over and miscommunication; Error handling; and Order management. Through workflow automation the process suffers fewer errors, less manual handling, greater service consistency and more accurate monitoring. The Automated Book Production Solution works with multiple input sources, such as MIS systems, web-to-print software or third party software solutions. Files and job ticketing can be imported using JDF/JMF communication protocols or through hot folders to enable standards-based workflow. The solution allows batch management of all jobs prior to printing, and jobs can be attached by size, imposition, color, black & white, and run length. Users can drive fleets of color, monochrome engines and track jobs through finishing and mailroom environments. This new solution addresses the challenges of digital book publishing and provides a smooth working environment for print professionals. A tracking barcode is generated to identify each job from end to end with full connectivity across all phases of production. Updates are communicated back to the original order entry system, so print providers can keep their customers informed of job status. If a page or job is damaged at any point, the barcode can be scanned and automatically communicated back for an automatic reprint. http://www.oceusa.com

Acquia and Rackspace Hosting have announced that they have entered into an agreement enabling both companies to deliver a broader range of solutions to their customers. Acquia will provide Enterprise-class Drupal support, remote administration and global training for Rackspace, and Rackspace will serve as a partner to Acquia for Enterprise hosting services. Rackspace recently launched Rackspace Media Services, an enterprise-level solution providing an open source, direct-to-consumer (D2C) web infrastructure for the music recording industry and other companies that rely on critical website uptime. The collaboration with Acquia adds a layer of additional tools, resources and training. Acquia will be offering new options that incorporate Rackspace’s cloud and Managed hosting services in addition to its current cloud offerings of Acquia hosting. Acquia Hosting is a highly available, cloud-based Drupal hosting service for deployments of Drupal. Customers will now be able to receive full access to Acquia’s team of Drupal experts for technical and service support. http://acquia.com www.rackspace.com/

XBRL US and Carveout HM Ltd announced today the first issue of XBRLglobal, a print journal created to support the accelerating adoption of XBRL as a standard business reporting language around the world. XBRLglobal is a joint effort of XBRL US and the Publisher, Carveout HM Ltd to increase the reach and pace of XBRL knowledge distribution. XBRL US Labs, which is conducting several cooperative research and development projects, recently launched a suite of software tools for XBRL document analysis and consistency checking, and anticipates adding new document tags in releases of taxonomies for corporate actions, proxy, and asset-backed securities in 2010. The quarterly journal will publish academic papers on XBRL, business reporting technologies, and open standards in the quarterly journal. XBRL US plans to issue an open Call for Papers to the academic community in the next week. Qualified industry professionals from accounting, financial services, technology, and information publishing sectors can sign up for a complimentary subscription. http://xbrl.us

FlashMoto.com and FlashMint.com announced the beginning of multi-year partnership, centered on developing "premium quality" Flash CMS Templates. They hope to provide a larger variety of quality Flash CMS Templates, and further developing the options available for the Flash CMS community. FlashMint has strong experience as a Flash templates producer. The company’s products meet all Flash standards, combining original designs, functionality, xml management and visual effects. FlashMoto is the maker of Flash CMS, a platform that helps manage Flash websites without using programming language. Each Flash CMS template is equipped with a set of tools, components and modules, among which are: video & image gallery components, a rich media library, video and MP3 player components, WYSIWYG page and pop-up editor, infomodule, and SEO tools. http://www.flashmoto.com http://www.flashmint.com/

Buzzr announced the official launch of Buzzr Enterprise Edition, a web content mangement system, in partnership with Drupal developer Lullabot. Buzzer is a multi-site WCM solution for organizations. Buzzr also debuted the beta launch of its Consumer Edition, a self-service platform. Buzzr is fully hosted and features a drag and drop interface as a layer over Drupal. The white label platform is initially covering five sectors: non-profits, higher education, media/entertainment, government and consumer goods/services. Buzzr is designed with "ordinary" users in mind, those without Drupal training, to create and run websites that feature Drupal features such as custom content types (such as a restaurant review form), flexible views of content (such as review forms organized by star ratings) and user permissions. Social features are available as standard or as Drupal plug ins. Despite a user interface streamlined for "ordinary" users, the Drupal "under the hood" is still accessible to software engineers who might wish to add or modify features.  This also allows use of Drupal's 5,000 add-on modules. Buzzr will provide code review and continuing support services for clients with their own technical teams, and can also provide customization services through its Partner network. Buzzr also integrates website performance and scaling into its hosted platform. Buzzr today announced a limited time trial offer of $99 a month for up to 5 sites, a $99 one-time fee for installation and $99 for a one-hour monthly support contact.  Pricing is incremental based on usage, starting at $30 per month, per site, and saves organizations from committing to leasing servers before they know how widespread their adoption will be. http://www.buzzr.com/ http://www.lullabot.com/

Alfresco Software, today announced the immediate availability of Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 for download. This release includes a range of content services for developers, including integrations with IBM Lotus Social software and a preview of an upcoming Google Docs integration. With LGPL licensing and enhancements to document and web content management (WCM) functionality, Community 3.3 is also the first ECM tool to enable developers to deliver content-rich business applications leveraging CMIS 1.0 open source standards. Significant enhancements to Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 include: Providing core content management capabilities, in a free-to-distribute CMIS runtime; CMIS 1.0 Compliance; Online Content Editing Services. Alfresco Community 3.3 also provides a Web Editor Framework (WEF) - a JavaScript client side framework rendering a toolbar and associated controls designed to allow developers to extend any in-context functionality that may be required. The WEF also enables developers to easily create and package plug-ins and extensions for simple management and interoperability. Content Repurposing – Automated content formatting functionality allows developers to build solutions to repurpose content for the web. Developers can use automated rules and existing FreeMarker and XSLT templates to format content for multiple delivery channels. Repository Replication & Web Deployment – Alfresco 3.3 builds on current rich deployment facilities with the introduction of the Transfer Service. Integrations – Designed to meet the needs of developers looking for industry standard platforms that provide content services, Community 3.3 extends Alfresco support to IBM Lotus and Google Docs. New enhancements to Alfresco’s collaborative content management platform, Alfresco Share, include: Repository-wide content access, Automated Content Rules, Collaboration Lists, "Google Like" Search, Open Source License (LGPL). http://www.alfresco.com

SDL announced the first release of the company’s end-to-end publishing technology for technical documentation. The solution developed by SDL’s Structured Content Technologies division addresses the changing demands of Internet and Smartphones with on-demand and interactive technical documentation. This new integration of SDL LiveContent and SDL Trisoft, the company’s Component Content Management system. This integration is designed to transform static documentation managed as publications into interactive web-based information. SDL LiveContent is a delivery engine that produces an interactive document with animated graphics, search for easy navigation and analytics. http://www.sdl.com/

VillageEDOCS, Inc., a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, announces the release of version 2.0 of the MessageVision Platform (MVP) with updates to the Content Management, Workflow and Legislative Agenda software solutions. Content Management (CMx) 2.0 is a electronic document and content management solution designed exclusively for small- to medium-sized businesses and mid-sized enterprises to provide secure document control and handling while meeting compliance and regulatory standards and requirements. Content Management (CMx) features a centralized solution for users to create, share, and edit documents, ideas and conversations in real-time, within a secure environment. Additionally, the new LegisStream(R) (LSx) 2.0 - Legislative Agenda Management package is released for municipalities. LegisStream automates the entire agenda process, from creation of staff reports, agendas and packets to real-time roll-call, vote tabulation and meeting minutes. From archiving agendas and backup material to searching and retrieving by keywords, agenda item titles and full-text, all information is accessible from the web. LegisStream (LSx) 2.0 includes a number of customer-driven features: Advanced Agenda customization to meet the individual needs of municipalities; Enhanced reporting, including: Meeting Summary, Voting, and Legislative History; Advanced workflow integration with WorkFlow (WFx) to fully automate the approval routing of any agenda item. http://www.villageedocs.com/

XBRL US Labs, the research and development arm of XBRL US, has initiated a research and development effort to bring XBRL apps to Apple's popular iPhone and newly-released iPad mobile devices. The purpose of the initiative is to demonstrate the power of XBRL in a simple and accessible way.  This has often been a challenge for XBRL, a movement that is working to bring consistency, transparency, and accessibility to large and complex financial and business reports through a global agreement on a single data standard. XBRL US Labs will recruit Labs partners, research fellows, and interns over the next six weeks to prepare for a June meeting that will seek to crowd-source the design and features of the applications using the same workbench and collaboration platform it has employed for previous projects to build the US GAAP, Mutual Fund Risk-Return, and Credit Ratings taxonomies now in use by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. XBRL US also announced that Evrhet Milam, a software engineer from Los Angeles, California, has been named the first XBRL US Labs Research Fellow on the project.  He is currently finishing his Masters in Information Systems Management at Brigham Young University, where he has focused on integrating data, mobile, and web applications. http://www.xbrl.org

JustSystems, a software vendor in XML and information management technologies, announced the launch of XMetaL, XMAX, and XMetaL Developer 6.0. With version 6.0, JustSystems is broadening support for a wider variety of customized XML formats. Included in both products is the autocorrect and background spellchecking feature, W3C XML Inclusion support, support for the W3C XML schema, ‘xs:redefine,’ and support for Windows 7. XMetaL XMAX is an embeddable ActiveX component designed for developers to integrate structured authoring capabilities into custom environments. XMAX integrates structured authoring capabilities for deployment across the enterprise and offers the following benefits: Integrates XML authoring capabilities into custom workflow applications and web publishing systems. Includes a concurrent-user licensing model that allows users at different levels to view or edit XML content without needing to install a desktop-based editor. XMetaL Developer is based on Microsoft Visual Studio with support for standard scripting languages. XMetaL Developer let users build and configure productive authoring interfaces. XMetaL Developer uses common scripting languages, has an open architecture, and features a standards-based approach to development. http://www.justsystems.com/

Adobe has announced that the Dreamweaver CS5 will include in-program authoring and testing support for PHP-based Web Content Management (WCM) Systems such as WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal. This will allow developers and designers to get an accurate view of content in these systems within Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver CS5 will also feature access to Omniture SiteCatalyst and Omniture Test&Target Web analytics utilities from within the program and integration with new Adobe CS Live online services. http://www.adobe.com/

Gotuit, a video metadata technology company, announced that it has integrated with FreeWheel, a video monetization technology company. Gotuit has joined FreeWheel’s PAVE Initiative (Partners Accelerating the Video Economy), to help video publishers unleash the full value of their video archives through the use of scene-level metadata. With the combined solution, publishers use Gotuit’s Video Metadata Management System to define a structured set of time-based metadata for each individual scene within their source videos. The video metadata can include detail such as Topic, Talent, Player, Team, Character, Location, Show Segment, and Emotion and is customizable. This metadata is ingested by the FreeWheel platform to create greater advertising inventory that can be keyword targeted for each individual scene. http://www.gotuit.com/ http://www.freewheel.tv/

Nokia has bought out MetaCarta, a specialist in geographic intelligence that is expected to boost the phone maker's push to expand the location-based services it offers to its mobile device users. MetaCarta offers software that can take documents from a repository in a content management system or other source and have them appear in an online map. The company's technology works with maps viewed on a mobile device, browser-based map, such as Microsoft Virtual Earth, or a globe viewer, like Google Earth. MetaCarta delivers its technology as an on-premise appliance, a hosted appliance or as a Web service. Nokia has been pushing deeper into the location-based services since its $8.1 billion acquisition of map data specialist Navteq in 2007. http://www.nokia.com/

Autonomy Corporation has announced significant enhancements to the company's Virage MediaBin platform. Leveraging Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing (MBC) technology, Virage MediaBin 7.1 automatically forms a conceptual understanding of rich media assets, including social media, blogs, and videos. Marketers can use Virage MediaBin to identify rich media assets for use in web, video, print, social media, online advertising, and mobile campaigns.At the core of Autonomy's Virage MediaBin platform is the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) which automates the processing of all rich media assets. IDOL forms a conceptual understanding that to assist in automatically tagging rich media assets, regardless of format or language. Virage MediaBin 7.1 combines IDOL technology with new workflow capabilities to provide seamless connection to any content repository. IDOL automatically identifies and indexes newly created content in a repository, including PIM, PLM, and ERP systems. The new platform also provides enhancements to "watch and listen" to video. The product automatically converts video to text and time synchronizes with a preview of the content. Video assets can be found with accuracy to the location within a video where a word or phrase is spoken. This is dynamically associated with other critical digital assets. Virage MediaBin 7.1 also delivers a new and improved user interface, and supports a wide range of rich media asset types and languages, including the ability to search foreign multimedia in the marketer's native language. http://www.autonomy.com

Atex and BLOOM Digital Platforms announced an exclusive partnership to offer BLOOM’s AdGear ad serving, targeting and online inventory management technology as part of the Atex Digital product suite. AdGear is an ad server for media publishers, advertisers and agencies. The AdGear platform provides publishers with new ways to engage consumers through online and mobile advertising channels. Manual double-entry of advertising information across systems is eliminated, which reduces errors and cuts production expenses. In addition, AdGear minimizes unsold inventory, allowing more ads to be sold and enabling better audience segmentation.  The combined Atex and AdGear solution assists media companies in their efforts to increase third-party ad network revenues. The Atex Web CMS shares metadata with AdGear for better yield management and optimization. This is aimed at improving the redistribution of unsold inventory. It also facilitates future Atex and AdGear roadmap initiatives for real-time bidding to sell, acquire and exchange inventory. AdGear supports various ad formats for online, mobile and e-reader channels, including Apple’s new iAds mobile platform. In addition, publishers can reduce their reliance on ads coming from ad networks that typically generate lower CPM rates. http://www.atex.com/ http://www.adgear.com/

CSOFT International Ltd., a provider of multilingual localization, testing, and software development services, announced the public launch of TermWiki Community Edition. TermWiki is the localization industry's first collaborative and wiki-based terminology management system. Anyone can immediately access TermWiki’s database to search, create, review, and rate multilingual terminology. In addition to TermWiki’s set of terminology management features, users now have the ability to organize multilingual terminology by product category, company name or business sector. The community edition of TermWiki comes with a host of features, including terminological data attributes, as well as the ability to rank the pertinence and accuracy of individual terms and translations. This new generation of terminology management software also includes properties that support a range of data types, such as web pages, images, audio pronunciations, Tweets, YouTube videos, and an endless number of interactive features, all aimed at providing linguistic context to clarify the use of terminology at the source level. Bolstered with a community voice feature, TermWiki Community Edition now enables companies to collect the input of internal staff and customers alike regarding the quality of terms and their associated translations. http://www.termwiki.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe Creative Suite. Focusing on interactivity, performance and maximizing the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns across media and devices, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full version upgrades of creative tools while delivering workflow enhancements to designers and developers. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by Web sites and other sources. Additionally, a brand new component, Adobe Flash Catalyst, joins the Creative Suite to improve the collaborative process between designer and developer. The Adobe CS5 product family also enables the creation of content and applications for the releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2, which are optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities. The new lineup is headlined by Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, which includes, in a single package, all of Adobe’s Creative Suite tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. These tools are also available separately or in one of the five Creative Suite editions. The complete Creative Suite 5 lineup includes Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, as well as 15 point products, associated technologies and integration with new Adobe CS Live Services (CS Live Services are complimentary for a limited time). Adobe Creative Suite 5 products are scheduled to ship within 30 days, with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store and Adobe Direct Sales. Estimated street price for the suites is expected to be US$2599 for Master Collection CS5, US$1899 for CS5 Design Premium, US$1799 for CS5 Web Premium, US$1699 for CS5 Production Premium and US$1299 for CS5 Design Standard. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are available. Adobe CS5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live Services. For full product details see http://www.adobe.com/go/creativesuitemaster.

Townnews.com, a publishing technology developer, has announced the release of Total CMS. BLOX Total CMS integrates articles, videos, photos, graphics and other content into a single system. BLOX allows editors, web masters or others designated by the newspaper to place programmable and movable blocks of content any place on a web site. The blocks can be moved by newspaper staff members, or can be programmed to move, appear or disappear at designated times and dates. Each block can be programmed to pull in text, photos, videos, graphics, HTML documents, related links and portable document files. Smart blocks can change structure or design in response to the type of content they are fed (video versus text, for example). BLOX CMS is integrated with features such as an interactive calendar, blogs, Social Marketplace, online Yellow Pages, classifieds and more. All the content is managed in a centralized database, and content can be shared between other newspapers on BLOX CMS. Total CMS allows the content to be flowed into InDesign templates. BLOX CMS contains its own word processor and photo editor that can be linked with commercial word processors and photo editors. Total CMS is integrated with a new Social Marketplace solution, which merges business information (default business listings as well as detailed profiles) with user-generated content (videos, photos, etc), calendar information and advertising content (both display and classified) – all under a single sign-on. BLOX Social Marketplace allows businesses and members of the public – if granted permission by the newspaper – to manage commenting, advertising, content and reviews on business profile pages. http://townnews.com

The technology outfit WorldNow has launched WorldNow Mobile CMS, a content management system that allows its station partners to build and better control their mobile sites. WorldNow provides technology, video and sales solutions to partner stations. Media outlets everywhere are boosting their mobile presence to connect with users via their smartphones. Partners pay either a license fee or agree to a revenue share for the new mobile CMS. http://www.worldnow.com/

Apple unveiled its iAd mobile advertising product, designed to help developers make more money off their apps -- particularly free apps -- through ads designed for the iPhone. Apple will offer developers 60% of ad revenue, and will sell, host, and deliver ads itself. http://www.apple.com

Oracle introduced Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management and Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management. The new applications extend the capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System to address the end-to-end financial close process and the creation of regulatory filings using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management and Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management work in conjunction with other Oracle EPM applications such as Hyperion Financial Management or can be deployed directly with ERP General Ledger systems. These new applications are available with Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2. http://www.oracle.com

Open Text Corporation has announced plans to integrate and expand the content analytics capabilities of Nstein Technologies in the Open Text ECM Suite. The plans will bring new content analytics capabilities to Open Text's solutions, adding value for customers by helping to engage users, enhance productivity, as well as manage governance and ediscovery issues. With the skyrocketing volumes of content in organizations today, customers need more intelligent analytics to identify relevant content. Nstein's content analysis engine can extend across Open Text ECM environments, covering text-based content - regulated documents, email, social media, Web content, OCR-treated scanned images, and content in business systems, such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. Open Text's first integration of Nstein technology will focus on user experience in Web applications by integrating content analytics with Open Text's Vignette Content Management system, as well as its Media Management solution. Open Text will also integrate the technology with its Enterprise Library, the core repository layer for storing, securing and retaining content assets in the ECM Suite. The content analytics capabilities will enhance the existing information retrieval capabilities provided by the native search inherent to the ECM Suite. Like search, content analytics will become a shared service available to each Open Text ECM Suite application. These integrations will be completed over the next 12 months. Going forward, the product formerly known as Nstein Text Mining Engine will be marketed as Open Text Content Analytics.  http://www.opentext.com

ZyLAB, a provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, announced it has integrated text analytics into its eDiscovery & Production System to help make Early Case Assessments (ECA) more efficient. Text analytics enable organizations to identify, classify, and sort enterprise information prior to initiating the formal Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Collection process and extract entities, facts, relationships, concepts and subtext that will influence the litigation strategy. Legal counsel gains greater insight into potential liabilities and can make informed decisions much earlier in the process. Traditionally, ECA is executed just before the review stage of e-discovery. In order to do this, all data from appointed custodians has to be collected and processed before analysis and review can start. ZyLAB's eDiscovery & Production System has the capabilities to analyze information without the need to first collect the data and store it on a collection server. Complementing its various search methodologies (Boolean, wildcard, proximity, and fuzzy searching, but also innovative concept searching), the ZyLAB system integrates text analytics to manage huge volumes of dispersed and unfiltered data. Key capabilities of ZyLAB Text Analytics include: Auto-classification and sorting based on the content or file properties; Extraction of more than 200 types of entities and regular expressions like names, job titles, addresses, and social security numbers; Extraction of events and facts Extraction of unknown concepts, trends and patterns; Extraction of document and file properties; Detection and recognition of graphical files; Detection, recognition and translation of foreign language content, as well as automatic translation of 40 languages; Detection of exact and near-duplicate files Data Visualization to identify patterns, relationships, trends, and connections in dynamic diagrams or even Google Maps. The platform is built around an XML data repository and provides authorized reviewers with access via standard Internet browsers. http://www.zylab.com/

XBRL US, a non-profit advancing open standards for XML business reporting in the U.S., announced the launch of XBRL Consistency Suite, a set of online XBRL tools that help public companies identify inconsistencies in XBRL documents related to the use of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomy. In the over 1,400 XBRL financial statements that have been submitted to date, thousands of errors have been identified, including incorrect use of signs, missing XBRL-tagged elements, and tags that should not have been reported, among others. The XBRL Consistency Suite performs over 6,000 tests against a company's XBRL document and produces a report that shows taxonomy-specific errors that have been made.  Companies, or their service providers, should run the tool on their XBRL-formatted financials before they submit them to regulators and investors as a final step in the XBRL creation process.  It also includes access to a database of XBRL documents submitted to the SEC, updated regularly. Subscribers can perform basic analytics on the database to see what concepts are being used by their peers and what extensions are being created by searching on the full set of filings, or searching by industry or company.  Pre-created extensions reflect new accounting standards and industry changes.  XBRL Consistency Suite was developed by XBRL US Labs, the research and development arm of XBRL US. http://xbrl.us

The Math Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of  "XML Entity Definitions for Characters." Notation and symbols have proved important for human communication, especially in scientific documents. Mathematics has grown in part because its notation continually changes toward being succinct and suggestive. On the Web, the majority of cases it is preferable to store characters directly as Unicode character data or as XML numeric character references. This document is the result of years of employing entity names on the Web. It presents a completed listing harmonizing the known uses of character entity names throughout the XML world and Unicode. Learn more about the Math Activity. http://www.w3.org

CustomDev has announced the availability of their open source web content management system, Zyke CMS. CustomDev has also set up a community forum, for Zyke development and support. Zyke is designed to be lightweight and have an "intuitive" interface for users of various technical skill levels. http://www.zykecms.com

Adeptol announced that Central Desktop, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) social technology platform for business teams, has integrated Adeptol Document Viewer into its SaaS collaboration platform. This integration provides Central Desktop’s customers with a web-based viewing source for 300+ document formats at high speed. Adeptol Document Viewer is a secure file viewing solution and comes with built–in Information Rights Management (IRM). Users can view documents directly from the Adeptol Document Viewer without having to download or install any client software application. Adeptol Document Viewer acts as a document container for embedding many kinds of documents including Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, images, and CAD files in a custom form or Web page. http://www.centraldesktop.com/ http://www.adeptol.com/

EntropySoft released a new version of its Content Hub. The Content Hub can be connected to over 35 content repository types and offers a centralized access point to all documents, as well as cross-repositories features. For a simplified user-experience content transfers can be managed in a web interface. For interoperability, the content hub is now CMIS-compatible and can work with the latest Web Services standards. For security management, the content hub is fully compatible with Kerberos. A user can do a federated search and specify where the documents have to be transferred. There are no longer complex parameters to set and no more complicated mapping to develop. These requirements are taken into consideration beforehand, when building the content transfer bridges. A major improvement is that the content bridges linking two repositories are dynamic. Therefore, it is now possible to have business units managing on their own the content transfers in the extended enterprise, including transfers to and from the cloud. With the help of content transfer bridges, permissions are replicated, metadata are automatically mapped and there is full-traceability for all transfer of documents. CMIS is planned to receive its final approval in April 2010, but already EntropySoft is complying with the new standard. The 35+ read-write connectors of Content Hub are also CMIS-compatible, normalizing the access to the most popular content-centric applications. http://www.entropysoft.net

Box.net announced its Box App for iPad is available on the App Store. The app is a cloud content management solution that has been designed to take full advantage of iPad's Multi-Touch interface and stunning screen. Box App for iPad enables users to access, share and interact with business content stored on Box.net. Box.net's cloud content management solution combines the content-centric focus of traditional content management solutions with the collaborative nature of social business software and currently helps more than 3.5 million users and more than 50,000 businesses easily share content, move company file systems online and create team workspaces.The Box App for iPad has all the core features people love about Box.net, delivered in a totally new way. Features of this App are: Browse through personal and shared files and folders; Share files and folders; Exchange feedback with colleagues and business partners around any file; Monitor updates to shared content, including edits, new versions and comments. The Box App for iPad is available for free from the App Store or on iTunes. http://www.box.net

Amazon.com, Inc. has announced its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. The app lets users select from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology. With over 450,000 books available in the Kindle Store, including new releases and New York Times Bestsellers, plus popular classics for free including titles like "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Treasure Island." Bestsellers are available for $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store. Customers can search for a specific book or browse by genre or author, and can take advantage of all the features that customers enjoy in the Kindle Store, including Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations and editorial reviews. Features of the Kindle App for iPad include: Amazon's Whispersync technology which automatically syncs customers' last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices; The user interface is tailored to the iPad; Screen dim; Font customization; And optional "page turn" animation. The Kindle App for iPad is available for free from the App Store on iPad or iTunes. www.amazon.com/kindleforipad

DocuLex, creators of content management software (CMS), announced data mining capability through their WebSearch program. Users can keyword search their documents in various file formats to assist in decision making for their organizations. Available as a local installation or as a cloud/software service, WebSearch is a component of DocuLex’s Archive Studio, providing network-enabled document capture and image processing software, along with browser-based document and content management. Searches may be performed using document specific meta data descriptions, full text content, as well as date ranges, search history, search lists and saved searches. Driven by a dashboard display featuring the program's functions menu, WebSearch is now a workflow enabler, providing users the ability to share and amend native format documents, while organizing and tracking each amended version. The program's WorkSpace lets users to group sets of documents together to be shared with colleagues, and a discussion feature has been added for users to comment on document's content. The SharePortal function of WorkSpace allows the secure sharing if documents with 3rd party guests. The server-based software automates complex documentation organizational functions including browser-based file room views and group collaboration folders. Documents of various file types may be uploaded directly to WebSearch, indexed (with additional document identifying metadata added remotely if necessary) for native format storage and ease of access. DocuLex WebSearch also has the capability of pulling inbound and outbound email from the Microsoft Exchange Journal mailbox. This automated process negates user involvement, ensuring thorough capture and retention of all email and attached content. The program manages multiple levels of security, including Organization, Community, Group, Users, as well as individual files. Document and user activity tracking logs are always available, assisting in compliance of privacy laws including SEC, FINRA (NASD / NYSE), GLBA, HIPAA, FRCP, FERC and Sarbanes Oxley. Email is secured by WebSearch, maintaining private access rights by sender or recipient. However, email deletion is unavailable by users, access logs are maintained and retention is managed by the records management module. Incoming, outgoing and internal emails are captured instantly and actively by the archive server using a journaling function inherent to the clients' mail server (for Exchange and POP3 servers). Any email and attachments sent or delivered will be archived and processed. WebSearch can also serve as an off site document archival/disaster recovery facilitator, with public-key infrastructure (PKI) providing encryption and digital signature security for outsourcing daily-use information access to the electronic file storage. www.doculex.com 

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) in the U.S. and EDItEUR, the international body which maintains ONIX product information standards, worked in collaboration with representatives from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the UK Publishers Association (PA), to make rapid provisions in ONIX for Books to allow for a standard means of communicating “agency model” sales terms for e-books. The agency model is a newly defined commercial model for e-book sales which is distinctly different from the more traditional retail model. In the agency model, the publisher sells to the consumer via an “agent” who fulfills the sale on the publisher’s behalf and receives a commission for doing so. Although the traditional model, in which the publisher sells the book to retailers at wholesale, has long been accommodated for in ONIX for Books, appropriate new code values had to be developed to meet requirements of the new agency model. These new code values are now included in the just-published ONIX Code Lists Issue 11. To aid in the implementation of the new codes, BISG and EDItEUR have also co-published a distinctive “how to” guide, showing how to use ONIX to specify different terms of supply in different territories. Entitled “ONIX for Books: How to Specify Different Terms of Supply in Different Territories”, the new guide provides four detailed worked examples, which are fully supported in both ONIX 2.1 and ONIX 3.0. http://www.bisg.org/ http://www.editeur.org/