Lernout & Hauspie announced that it has licensed its language technologies to Symbian. Symbian has integrated L&H’s linguistic technologies into its platform, whose licensees include Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Philips and Psion. This agreement helps to expand L&H’s technologies to the fast growing worldwide market for Smartphones and other Internet-enabled consumer devices. Symbian licensed both L&H’s International CorrectSpell and the Intellifinder Reference Engine technologies. International CorrectSpell uses language-specific text analysis to spell check and correct documents; IntelliFinder uses advanced indexing and retrieval methods coupled with linguistically motivated algorithms to find information in structured reference works. Both technologies are available in a variety of languages. The L&H technologies licensed to Symbian are included in the current generation of the Symbian platform. Providing key commercial and technological advantages for manufacturers of Wireless Information Devices, the Symbian platform provides an operating system, customizable user interfaces, color support, fit-for-purpose application suites, advanced Internet connectivity, and PC connectivity software. www.symbian.com, www.lhs.com
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net.Genesis Corp. unveiled net.Activator, an integration of event-driven technology into an analytical platform. net.Activator is a patent-pending, XML-based extension of the net.Analysis platform that enables e-businesses to leverage e-customer intelligence into marketing action in an automated environment. net.Activator utilizes the e-customer data that has been collected, stored and analyzed by net.Analysis to trigger events–ads, content, mail and e-mail–that enrich one-to-one marketing. net.Activator leverages XML capabilities, building them onto its event-driven engine, triggering events based on the information that net.Analysis has filtered, cleansed and correlated into actionable business views. net.Analysis then tracks the effectiveness of the triggered ad, content or mail, closing the loop in the customer intelligence value cycle. net.Activator extends the existing net.Analysis Scheduling and Publishing system to encompass subscription requests from other applications. net.Activator generates and distributes reports automatically to interested applications. It is implemented with a programmatic, event-driven, publish-and-subscribe mechanism. www.netgen.com
Andromedia, Inc. announced ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette – Andromedia’s Web site analysis and personalization solutions optimized for customers using Vignette’s StoryServer. ARIA for Vignette is a Web site analysis solution that tracks StoryServer page titles and Profile Marks out-of-the-box. ARIA for Vignette enables e-marketers to know their customers better, analyze dynamic content, and gauge campaign and site effectiveness in realtime. It tracks dynamic content on sites built with Vignette’s StoryServer and delivers the power and intelligence to analyze visitor behavior across geographically dispersed, multi-server StoryServer sites. Vignette Lifecycle Personalization approach enables a Web site to provide a dynamic, personalized experience based on demographics and viewing behaviors. Andromedia’s LikeMinds collaborative filtering technology complements and extends these capabilities by making use of every interaction with Web visitors-individual clickstream data, purchase history, explicit preferences and product similarities-to engage Web visitors with highly accurate product recommendations. Optimized for StoryServer sites, LikeMinds for Vignette enables the two technologies to work together to deliver accurate realtime personalization capabilities. ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette will be commercially available in Q1 2000. The Andromedia Worldwide Services Group will provide implementation support for the deployment of ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette as part of the product offerings. Different levels of consulting are available to meet unique customer requirements. www.vignette.com
Interwoven, Inc announced an alliance with Cisco Systems, Inc. Under the agreement, Interwoven will team with Cisco to co-develop Web content management best practices, align market strategies and jointly market solutions to customers. The combination of Interwoven’s TeamSite Web content management system and Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions provides an infrastructure for customers to optimize and accelerate their transformation to eBusiness. The synergy between Cisco and Interwoven creates a combined domain expertise in helping customers build and maintain Web sites. Interwoven will benefit from Cisco’s Internet business technology experience as well as its market share in networking products and services. Both companies will benefit through joint technical development and integration. www.interwoven.com
Policy Management Systems Corporation (PMSC) announced through its wholly-owned subsidiary, DORN Technology Group, Inc., that DORN’s claims management system and its universal claims data specification are programmed in XML. In this case, XML will streamline the exchange of data between all those processing, managing and analyzing claims via the Internet. As a result, DORN’s claims management system, RISKMASTER/World, can reduce significantly the cost of handling claims online. The XML version of RISKMASTER/World will facilitate online communication between claims handlers such as self-insured organizations, third party adjusters, insurance pools, and insurance companies. XML eliminates many problems associated with incompatible data formats. For example, users can more easily exchange data via e-mail, browser, file, and live feeds. This new functionality will help DORN maintain its leadership among providers of online claims management systems. Meanwhile, DORN’s universal claims data specification will help claims application developers create custom XML tags that define where specific data elements begin and end. This helps speed the process of establishing a claims data standard for the entire claims industry. www.dorn.com, www.pmsc.com
Icon Information-Systems announced the release of version 3.0 of its XML Spy product. XML Spy is a professional validating XML editor that lets you edit all XML, XSL, Schema, and DTD files and provides four integrated views on the documents: The Enhanced Grid and Database View shows the entire structure of an XML document in a hierarchical presentation that allows in-place editing of all elements. Sequences of repeating elements are automatically transformed into a spreadsheet-like display. The Text View gives you the option to view the XML document in source form with customizable syntax-coloring and allows you to directly edit the source for low-level tasks. The integrated Browser View uses Internet Explorer 5 to render an XML document inside XML Spy. This view fully supports CSS and XSL style-sheets and can be displayed in a separate window. The new Import function enables the user to generate XML documents from a wide range of flat and relational data sources: text files, Word documents, Access files, and ODBC database sources. Complete Unicode and character-set encoding support are integrated for seamless data exchange with foreign languages or writing systems. www.icon-is.com
click2send.com, Inc. launched click2send for the Enterprise, a Web-based file delivery, management and storage service to facilitate large-scale business communication via the Internet. The service combines instant global file delivery with in-network format conversion, file synchronization, Web-based storage and the ability to customize the user interface to reflect corporate branding, streamlining corporate communication and collaboration with employees, partners and customers. Using click2send for the Enterprise, users can rapidly and reliably transfer files up to 75MB in size using their Web browser and no additional software. The service notifies recipients about the availability of files for transfer through short email messages that contain URLs pointing to the sender’s secure click2send Safe Deposit Box. When recipients click on the URL, their browsers are opened and the users are taken immediately to the file location where files can be downloaded to a local hard disk. Leading business document types, including Microsoft Office, HTML or Windows Media, can be viewed directly in the click2send window without the user having to download the file first and launch it separately. Files can be viewed simultaneously by many recipients in different locations. click2send for the Enterprise is available now to any business with Internet access for a minimal monthly subscription fee. The service is suited for hard-wired connections and Netscape 4.01 or higher and Internet Explorer 4.00 or higher Web browsers. www.click2send.com
DataChannel will donate its XPages, an XML application markup language, to the Apache XML Project Open Source Library. The rapid adoption of XML has triggered an overwhelming demand for Open Source XML and XSL tools. DataChannel’s XPages is an XML application markup language for quickly building data-driven, cross-platform Web applications that integrate disparate data sources. XPages offers a dynamic application environment defined by an XML file that aggregates multiple data sources, makes that data URL addressable and defines custom methods to access that data for presentation at the desktop or other devices. The DataChannel submission to the XML.APACHE.ORG Project includes Java code for a servlet based engine. The Project code, along with developer participation guidelines, is available at http://xml.apache.org/, www.datachannel.com
