Shared Spaces Briefing, Jun 28

Today's highlights: Attensa RSS; Akiva Silk; Gates and Ozzie on Email; Motorola "RAZRberry"; Gates on the Tablet;

• Attensa, a startup, released its product line at the Gnomedex 5 conference. Products include Attensa RSS Readers (desktop, Web, mobile phones, PDAs, and Outlook; includes publishing capabilities), and Attensa Servers (for workgroups and the enterprise). Private label branding is available. BusinessWire


• Akiva released Silk, a J2EE-based open source collaboration platform for the enterprise market. Seamlessly integrates a variety of collaborative applications (email, IM, meetings) and provides a centralized web portal for context-based collaboration. Akiva also outlined the Silk development plan for the next 6 months. A fee-based version of Silk is available with professional services and ongoing support. Akiva (PDF)


• Fortune Magazine interviewed Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie about email, Groove, collaboration, and Office. A longer version is available for Fortune subscribers. Fortune


• Motorola is working on a BlackBerry-killer, code named the "Franklin". Includes a QWERTY keyboard and runs Windows Mobile 5.0. Engadget


• Bill Gates says he still believes in the Tablet PC, even though it has failed to break into mainstream portable computing. InfoWorld

This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.