Today's news:
- ICQ released Version 4.0 of its IM client, adding the ability for developers to create plug-in applications, offering a new user interface, and links to cell phones. Available immediately. ICQ. Reviews at InfoWorld, BetaNews, and CNET
- TransMedia unveiled Version 2.2 of Colaborata, a management, collaboration, production and distribution platform for rich media. It's very targeted to media organizations. "TransMedia's collaboration module allows users to share and use your information via a robust collection of multimedia collaboration and communication tools. A secure collaborative platform provides clients with great flexibility in assigning access rights and privileges, managing project workflow and controlling sharing functionality both internally and externally. Users can also communicate via video and audio recorded messaging ... live conferencing, presentation and broadcasting tools. Media intensive organizations can shorten work cycles, decrease communication and operating costs, better utilize media assets and work with more immediacy and efficiency with colleagues and clients." Colaborata
- Polycom introduced a range of new conferencing solutions, including the VSX 3000 desktop unit, which combines a 17" flat panel display with an inbuilt video camera. The display can be linked to a PC. Polycom
- Europeans are directing their dollars toward smartphones rather than PDAs. theregister.co.uk
- Stanford University is working on a new group collaboration tool, called TeamSpace, which enables small groups of students to work together around a couple of large displays, and seamless share documents between their personal laptops and the group screens. Key features: concurrent work on a big screen and interactive filesharing. TeamSpace builds on earlier work called "Interactive Workspaces" or "iRooms", which "has been investigating both the software and human-computer interaction challenges of computer-supported collaboration involving large shared displays". TeamSpace Home. iWork. Downloads. The Stanford Daily
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