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Altova announced that a new dedicated differencing utility has been added to its product line. Altova DiffDog 2005 is a synchronization tool that facilitates the comparison and merging of files, folders, and directories for application developers and power users. DiffDog 2005 is available in both Standard and Professional editions. DiffDog 2005 Standard and Professional editions allow users to quickly compare source code files, HTML files, or any text-based files then merge changes with a click of the mouse. Both editions deliver comparison and merging options for all file directories as well. DiffDog 2005 Professional Edition also provides advanced XML-aware differencing and editing capabilities based on those popularized in Altova XMLSpy. DiffDog 2005 integrates with any version control system that supports external differencing applications. Intelligent syntax-coloring, line numbering, indentation guides, folding margins, and other innovative features are provided to assist in comparing source code and XML files. Special XML differencing capabilities in DiffDog 2005 Professional Edition include DTD/schema-based validation, well-formedness checking, intelligent entry helpers, optional entity resolution, and attention to attribute and child element ordering. Developers can compare XML files in either an advanced text view or enhanced grid view. Altova DiffDog 2005 is immediately available for purchase in both Standard and Professional Editions with (USD) prices for a single-user license starting at $69 and $129 respectively. www.altova.com

RedDot Solutions announced the launch of the RedDot LiveServer 2.2, a personalization and integration platform offered specifically for the midmarket. The new RedDot LiveServer features improved functionality for personalization, search and integration. RedDot LiveServer 2.2 now features: improved personalized search with Verity K2 5.5 technology; official certification and registration as an SAP SAP2EE Application; faster integration of pre-existing Web applications; integrated Web applications can now be “content aware”; extended integration with directory services using LDAP; and a new editor toolbar and additional display functions. www.reddot.com

Google Inc. announced the availability of the Google Mini, a search appliance that enables small-to-medium businesses to access and manage their information using Google search. The Google Mini is an integrated hardware/software search appliance that indexes all content within a company’s intranet or public website so users can search that content as they can on Google.com. The Google Mini searches up to 50,000 documents and comes with one year of support, software updates, and hardware replacement coverage. It can be purchased online, directly from the Google Store, for $4,995 with a credit card or purchase order. Google also announced enhancements to the Google Search Appliance, a product designed for larger enterprises. New improvements to the Google Search Appliance include: database search, localized administration, third-party content feed API, enhanced secure content access, and SNMP monitoring. www.google.com/enterprise

Bare Bones Software, Inc. announced the immediate availability of TextWrangler 2.0, a major upgrade to its general purpose text editor. TextWrangler 2.0 introduces syntax coloring and function navigation for eight new languages plus feature additions and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar, a new Shebang menu, SFTP support, enhanced multi-file search and replace, the ability to apply Text Factories created with BBEdit 8, enhanced text transformation tools, improved Unicode support. TextWrangler 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later. TextWrangler 2.0 is available immediately, free of charge for all Mac users. Registered owners of TextWrangler are eligible for a discounted cross-upgrade price on BBEdit. All currently registered owners of TextWrangler version 1.0 and later are also eligible for a credit of $49 on future purchases from Bare Bones Software and will be notified automatically via email. Commercial licensing terms are available for companies who wish to include TextWrangler 2.0 in their product. www.barebones.com

Autonomy Corporation plc announced an OEM agreement with EidosMedia, who has embedded Autonomy’s technology into its knowledge management and cross media publishing environment Methode. Autonomy’s advanced pattern-recognition software adds the ability to automate and accelerate processes on structured and unstructured data to EidosMedia solutions. Automatic profiling and alerting allow the delivery of content to the right recipients without the need for any manual input. Information can be imported and retrieved from a variety of sources and in numerous different formats. Additionally, the software enables EidosMedia to provide their customers with automatic hyperlinks to relevant content from internal and external sources. www.eidosmedia.com, www.autonomy.com

Quark, Inc. introduced QuarkXPress Markup Language (QXML), an XML schema of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) that will make it easier for developers to create custom XTensions software for QuarkXPress. The QXML schema fully describes the QuarkXPress file format in XML and enables QuarkXPress 6.5 XTensions software to be developed using a variety of development platforms and languages, including Java, .Net, and many scripting languages. QXML presents a QuarkXPress project as an XML tree and any modifications to the XML files change the project in real time. With QXML, developers can dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of a QuarkXPress project using a DOM interface. XTensions modules can be more versatile because they can use a project’s complete content, including all formatting, style sheets, hyphenation, and justification specifications. Additionally, developers can run query expressions using XPath queries. The initial version of QXML allows developers to read data from a QuarkXPress project. In the next version, developers will be able to both read from and write to QuarkXPress projects. The QXML developer kit is available immediately to certified QuarkXPress XTensions developers. www.quark.com

Mondosoft announced the availability of a Web Service Search Kit that facilitates the deployment of search through web services. The Web Service Search Kit makes it easy to create a unified search index across multiple data sources, programming languages and software applications. Because it allows for local customization of search results and search options no matter where content is stored, it is useful for departmental, branch or user-specific adjustments of search results. The Kit can be accessed by and deployed with any language that supports XML and SOAP. Two samples are included with Mondosoft’s Web Service Search Kit. The Research Service for Microsoft Office 2003 sample allows access to content sources from different places and of various types directly from a search field in MS Office applications. In addition, a Windows application sample is included to demonstrate how the Kit is used and how web services can operate in Microsoft environments. The Web Service Search Kit is available free of charge for download to Mondosoft customers and partners and easily installs on top of existing MondoSearch implementations. www.mondosoft.com