News for Today, Nov 26

Interesting happenings from around the world today:

• MessageVine announced that Hutch, a CDMA2000 1X wireless carrier in Thailand, has released an instant messaging and presence service for its wireless customers. The service is based on MessageVine's IM Access platform. (Comment: News out of MessageVine has been fairly thin on the ground this year, so it is good to see another customer win.) Yahoo Business
• Good Technology debuted a new pricing model oriented around an annual fee per subscriber, with no additional fees for server licenses, network operating services, server maintenance, subscriber maintenance, and support. (Comment: Hopefully this is the sign of some deep strategic thinking at Good, and not a desperate last attempt to grow a viable business.) Silicon Valley Biz Ink
• Visto Corporation partnered with AT&T Wireless for the joint sales and marketing of corporate wireless messaging services for the Treo 600 on AT&T's GSM/GPRS wireless network. The Visto solution works with Microsoft Exchange Server. Visto
• Interwoven published a white paper entitled "Moving from File Folders to Virtual Worlds with Matter Centric Collaboration: A New Technology Paradigm for a Changing Legal Industry" (389 KB PDF). " ... it provides an integrated view of content, events, tasks and contacts for any given matter, or project, enabling teams, and practice groups to delivery high-quality services more efficiently. Matter-centric collaboration brings relevant documents, email, Internet, intranet, extranet content into a unified environment that can be accessed, securely, by users in any location." Bitpipe (Registration Required). (Comment: It's a fairly basic White Paper, outlining the challenge of keeping a legal file up-to-date across multiple sites, and proposing the use of a shared team space instead.)