Office software: June 2010 Archives

Brainshark, Inc., a provider of on-demand multimedia for business, announced Brainshark Mobile, enabling smartphone and iPad users to view Brainshark-delivered communications on their mobile devices. Now, Brainshark's enterprise customers, as well as users of the free myBrainshark.com site, can create content that can be viewed anywhere, anytime and on most devices. Brainshark presentations combine voice narration, PowerPoint slides, video and more for a multimedia experience. The presentations play as streamed video files when viewed on mobile devices. Through Brainshark's analytics capabilities, users can see when their presentations were viewed, who viewed them, if content was viewed on a mobile device and what type of device was used. Platforms and devices supported by Brainshark Mobile include the BlackBerry, Palm Pre, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android; all must support streaming video. For Brainshark's enterprise users, Brainshark Mobile is included at no additional cost as part of Brainshark's core platform. Presentations created are automatically mobile-enabled. http://presentation.brainshark.com/

Google has announced a set of new features and editors available to Google Docs users. Google Docs will now have new editors for documents and spreadsheets, designed to be faster and support more features. Documents will now feature character-by-character real-time collaboration, a ruler for custom margins and tab stops, as well as improvements to the import function. The new version of spreadsheets has been enhanced for speed, includes a formula editing bar, cell auto-complete and more. Google Docs accounts through universities, employers or organizations will start seeing the new editors by default in the coming weeks. You can now set a document, spreadsheet, presentation or drawing to be “Private,” available to “Anyone with the link,” or “Public on the web,” and then customize who has access by inviting specific collaborators. If you’re using Google Docs at work or at school, you’ll also see options to share your files just with other people within your organization. New features for the drawings editor in Google Docs were implented as well. Now you can center objects on the page, resize the entire canvas, view thumbnails of your drawings in your doc list, search across your drawings by text contained within and view a list of editing keyboard shortcuts. We also added the ability for you to share drawings in the Google Docs template gallery, so other people around the world can use your creations. http://www.google.com/