Today's highlights: Sylantro and Yahoo on IM; Vint Cerf on 'Messaging Forms'; Vignette Supports Mac; Mobile Tornado and Jabber; RIM BlackBerry for Novell; BlackBerry in New Zealand; Avaya Chooses WebEx;
- Sylantro announced an integration of its IP telephony capabilities (click-to-call, call logs, visual voice mail) with Yahoo! Messenger, "allowing users to control and use their hosted communications services through the ubiquitous instant messaging (IM) interface. Further, the integrated Sylantro capabilities offer presence information for contacts that are also Yahoo! Messenger users, giving users additional options in their communications." lightreading.com
- Vignette added support for the Mac platform in its content management solutions. Key driver: to enable it to focus strategically on the higher education market, which is a big user of Mac equipment. Comment: Let this be a lesson to all messaging and collaboration providers ... Apple may have only a small percentage of the worldwide market, but its products are in most organizations/corporations. To not have a Mac strategy is akin to excluding group and team members from being able to participate in an enterprise roll-out of the solution. Vignette
- Vint Cerf, a key figure in the Internet, says that vendors need to think about how different forms of messaging will work together. eWeek
- Mobile Tornado and Jabber announced the joint development of a mobile messaging product that combines voice, text, and availability information in a single interface. The product combines Mobile Tornado's Push-to-Talk over Cellular solution with the Jabber IM platform. tmcnet.com
- Research in Motion announced that its forthcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0 will support Novell GroupWise 6.5, which claims 12% of the worldwide email market, according to analyst studies used by RIM. RIM and InfoWorld
- It's official ... from RIM ... Vodafone NZ will be releasing the RIM BlackBerry solution in New Zealand from mid-July. Comment: Okay, so NZ may seem small and far away, but that's where I live ... and I've been waiting for this for *years*. RIM
- New customer for the WebEx Enterprise Edition web conferencing, event management and training solution: Avaya. prnewswire.com
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