Today's highlights: VIACK and Telework Consortium; BA-Insight Longitude 2.0 for SharePoint Portal; SEVEN and Smartner; Vignette in Asia-Pacific; Bingo on Alphalogix;
- VIACK Corporation announced a new partnership with the Telework Consortium, to develop pilot programms and evaluate communication and collaboration technologies for use by government agencies, companies and business leaders who want to increase remote collaboration among workers. VIA3, VIACK's collaboration tool, will be offered as a technology solution too. VIACK
- BA-Insight released Version 2.0 of Longitude Search for SharePoint Portal, an enterprise search appliance. The product adds best-of-breed search capabilities into a SharePoint Portal environment. Available immediately. BA-Insight
- SEVEN Networks and Smartner Information Systems Ltd., two wireless email providers, are rumoured to be considering a merger. Yahoo
- Vignette announced that a former managing director from EMC Documentum will become the VP and GM of Vignette's Asia-Pacific regional focus. Graham, let's do a briefing on Vignette Business Workspaces sometime. Vignette
- As I said yesterday with reference to expecting some new announcement soon from Alphalogix, it released Version 1.8 of its Visual Collaboration System Web Conference Network Appliance. Enables live collaborative meetings via a web browser, and is packaged in an appliance form factor for the enterprise market. New features: updated and improved file transfer capability, new meeting types, and a simplified user interface, among others. Available immediately. Alphalogix
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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