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Near-Time, Inc. announced the commercial availability of Near-Time Current
for Mac OS X. Current transcends traditional text editors, bookmark managers, Web clipping software, outliners, newsreaders, and blogging software. It combines these functions, leveraging the immediacy of the Internet while offering a rich desktop environment for authoring and publishing. Current’s authoring and publishing capabilities allow you to create documents from many sources simultaneously, merge links and Web page content with your documents, and post the results to Web sites and blogs, with accompanying RSS or Atom news feeds. It works with both desktop and Internet content, and has a built-in Web browser and full text search capabilities. Application files of all types, including QuickTime, photos, html pages, and mp3 files, can be stored and launched within Current. Content from Current can be published to Weblogs via Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs, as RSS feeds and as Web pages to Apple iDisk or Web servers. This gives users one tool for authoring, gathering, organizing, and the publishing of content. Supported standards include XML, HTML, FTP, WebDav, SMTP, iDisk, RSS, and Web logs (via Atom). Near-Time Current is available for download and Near-Time Current licenses are priced at $49.95 per user. http://www.near-time.com

Google Inc. announced that the Google Mini has twice the search capacity at a more affordable price. The Google Mini can now search up to 100,000 documents for a lower price of $2,995. The Google Mini is an integrated hardware/software search appliance that indexes all content within a company’s intranet or public website. After an installation process that takes only a matter of hours, users can search for information just as they do with Google.com. The Google Mini comes with one year of support, software updates, and hardware replacement coverage. It can be purchased online. The entry-level Google Search Appliance now offers search of up to 500,000 documents (more than three times the previous search capacity), for $30,000 including hardware, software, and two years of customer support. Other versions of the Search Appliance can index 15 million documents or more in a single collection. The Search Appliance provides enterprise-wide search across corporate web sites, intranets, databases, business applications and content management systems. http://www.google.com/enterprise

Context Media, Inc. announced the general availability of a new application developer kit (ADK) designed specifically to help IT organizations and service partners to rapidly build and deploy content applications in J2EE, .Net, and Portal environments, while using Context Media’s content integration software, Interchange Suite. The new ADK provides the tools and building blocks for developers to develop and deploy industry and company specific applications in many environments, enabling organizations to leverage Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) to quickly assemble cross-system, content-centric business applications. The ADK works with Context Media’s Interchange Suite, a software solution that enables organizations to access content stored in multiple and disparate content repositories, providing a single unified view of content no matter where it resides. The ADK is an extension of Context Media’s current Web service offerings and can enable developers to reduce application prototyping and integration time. Context Media’s ADK for J2EE, .NET, PHP and JSR 168 Portal Servers is now available.

RedDot Solutions announced the launch of its new Web Compliance Manager. Developed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, RedDot’s Web Compliance Manager is an add-on module to the CMS and XCMS enterprise content management offerings to ensure Web sites, portals and intranets are 508 and WCAG compliant. The new software solution helps organizations comply with legal requirements, international standards and corporate guidelines. RedDot’s Web Compliance Manager will ensure compliance with Section 508 and WCAG A, AA and AAA standards, while also checking for spelling mistakes, broken links and missing graphics. Web Compliance Manager automatically reads Web sites and style sheets and prevents any non-compliant content from being published. RedDot’s Web Compliance Manager can also be customized to check for privacy policy violations, verify safe harbor statements and enforce corporate branding standards, including consistent use of color, logo usage and product terminology. RedDot’s Web Compliance Manager module will be available in the second quarter of 2005. www.reddot.com

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, taking place April 11-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, will offer a free technology showcase that will play host to many of the industry’s most innovative developers of content management solutions. In addition to the free technology showcase, the event offers a conference program backed by one of the largest gatherings of industry analysts to provide attendees with independent insight and analysis into content management trends. All keynote sessions are free, as are additional conference sessions on Enterprise use of Blogs and Wikis, and a special session on compliance. Technology companies that will demonstrate their latest solutions at the event, include: Interwoven, Open Text Corporation, Macromedia, Blast Radius, Quark, Hummingbird, Oracle, Astoria Software, Atomz, AuthorIT, ClearStory Systems, CrownPeak Technology, Datalogics, Day Software, Ektron, Em Software, Endeca, Ephox, Etilize, Exegenix, FatWire Software, GMC Software Technology, Hot Banana, Idiom, Innodata Isogen, Kofax, Mark Logic, Mondosoft, Percussion, Quasar Technologies, RedDot Solutions, Refresh Software, SchemaLogic, Serena, SiberLogic, Translations.com, Vamosa, Weborganic Systems, Xerox, Xyleme, and Xythos. There is no charge to visit the Exhibit Hall; however, a registration badge is required for admittance. On-site registration is available for exhibit-only visitors. See the full release for information on product announcements at the event at . Full event details can be found at: https://gilbane.com/conferences/San_Francisco_05.html

Interwoven, Inc. announced the introduction of the Interwoven Content Provisioning solution. As an ECM solution designed specifically for IT Operations, the Interwoven Content Provisioning solution enables IT Operations departments to standardize the aggregation, synchronization and deployment of browser-based application assets from any development system to any application environment. The Interwoven Content Provisioning solution is designed to provide IT Operations with full control over the provisioning of browser-based application assets. Delivering reporting, configurable workflows, version control and rollback capabilities to streamline the release process, the Interwoven solution allows IT Operations to aggregate content from any ECM or Source Code Management (SCM) system and deploy it to any application environment. The Interwoven Content Provisioning solution is comprised of new versions of Interwoven ControlHub Server Software, Interwoven OpenDeploy Distribution Server Software, and new Education and Consulting Services, The Interwoven Content Provisioning solution is generally available in early April 2005.

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced a new release of Adobe Creative Suite, the design environment for print and Web workflows for creative professionals. Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition integrates new full-versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, and Adobe GoLive CS2 with the all-new Version Cue CS2. Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional also is included. A new Adobe Creative Suite component, Adobe Bridge, is a visual file browser that lets designers easily browse, organize, and process design assets within Adobe Creative Suite 2 software components. Designers can preview multi-page Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, drag and drop from floating Compact Mode windows, process images with built-in Camera Raw 3.0, edit and search for Adobe XMP metadata, and track assets managed in Version Cue CS2. Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X version 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin shipping in May to customers in the United States and Canada. International versions are expected to begin shipping in late May and early June. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition is US$1,199 and US$899 for Creative Suite 2 Standard Edition. http://www.adobe.com