Today's highlights: Intellisync Acquired Tourmaline; JP Mobile SureWave for Sony Ericsson P910; JotSpot Application Wiki; Scalix 9.2; IMlogic IM Manager 7.0; Nokia Licenses Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync; NextPage 1.5;
- Intellisync Corporation acquired Tourmaline Networks, a developer of mobile email for the Qualcomm BREW system. The Tourmaline product works with POP, HTML, IMAP, Exchange and Domino servers on more than 50 handhelds. Intellisync is likely to integrate the Tourmaline product into its Intellisync Mobile Suite offering. Intellisync
- JP Mobile added support for the Sony Ericsson P910 handheld device to SureWave, its enterprise mobility server. Yahoo
- JotSpot previewed its one-click application building capability at the DEMO conference. The new functionality enables customers to convert Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into pages that sit in a JotSpot wiki. This is part of a broader push to enable workgroups to reduce their reliance on email and file attachments. Changes to imported documents can be notified by RSS. ArriveNet
- Scalix Corporation released Scalix 9.2, its email server software that runs on Linux. New features: new visual administration capabilities, improved calendaring features in Scalix Web Access, and others. Availability not announced. BusinessWire
- IMlogic announced Version 7.0 of IM Manager, its instant messaging management, compliance and security offering. New features: real-time threat protection (via integration with IMlogic Threat Center for anti-virus and anti-spam capabilities), extended enterprise compliance and policy-enforcement (via federated user and trusted domain communication controls), and broader partner integration, among others. Availability not announced. BusinessWire
- Nokia's Enterprise Solutions business group has licensed the use of Microsoft's Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol. Will enable the direct synchronization of data in Microsoft Exchange Server with future Nokia Series 60 and 80 devices. Nokia, DMeurope.com
- NextPage released Version 1.5 of NextPage, its document collaboration solution. New features: real-time status and notifications about documents undergoing collaborative authoring, a graphical dashboard of version history, and quick checks as to the latest version of a document. Available immediately. Comment: awesome implementation to get around a very common problem.NextPage
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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