Quick Links, Feb 14

Vendor Moves

• Foldera Series B Round ... Foldera, a provider of web-based team collaboration and organization software, announced the successful conclusion to its Series B stock offering. The Series B round brings total monies raised to $13 million. The Foldera service is currently available in beta. Yahoo


• Followap and Vodafone ... Followap announced that it is powering the federated interconnectivity between Vodafone Instant Messaging services. Vodafone is using the Followap iFollow Interconnect Platform. Followap


• Federated Mobile Instant Messaging Service ... Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica Moviles, SFR, Bouygues, China Mobile, Bharti Tele-Ventures and others announced plans for a worldwide federated instant messaging service between their respective wireless networks. The carriers want to drive the sales of data minutes. International Herald Tribune, ComputerWorld


• Central Desktop Free Version ... Central Desktop announced the release of a free edition of its web-based project management and team collaboration software. Aimed at small business teams, the free edition supports up to 5 members, 25 MB of data storage, and 2 workspaces. Available immediately. Central Desktop


• Scalix 10 ... Scalix announced Version 10 of Scalix, its namesake email and calendaring server for enterprises running Linux. New features: high availability support (99.999% reliability), iCal for cross-platform calendaring interoperability, and enhancements to its rich email clients, among others. Available immediately. Scalix, with discussion at CRN


• BlackBerry Booted ... Darbys, a full-service solicitors firm in the United Kingdom, has replaced its BlackBerry deployment with a GoodLink one from Good Technology. Key driver: a desire to standardize on HP Pocket PC devices. Cellular News


• Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile ... Microsoft announced that its Mobile client for Office Live Communications Server 2005 will be available by mid April 2006. Works on Windows Mobile-based devices, supporting instant messaging, presence, and voice over IP. Microsoft


• MAPI Lab E-mail Follow-Up 1.7.1 ... MAPI Lab released Version 1.7.1 of E-mail Follow-up, an add-on tool for Microsoft Outlook to enhance Outlook's native follow-up and reminder capabilities. Adds two new buttons to the new mail screen, to enable the user to set follow-up details and reminders. Available immediately. MAPI Lab, with coverage at SearchExchange


• SEVEN Workgroup Edition ... SEVEN Networks released a Workgroup Edition of its push-based wireless email server. Works for up to 25 users, providing wireless access to email, calendar, attachments, and contacts against multiple email servers and from multiple mobile device types. Available immediately. SEVEN


• RIM's Not Scared ... RIM is apparently unfazed by the wireless email feeding frenzy going on. It sees itself having an ongoing competitive advantage in the space. Reuters. Its shares, however, dropped 2% after Microsoft made its wireless email announcements on Monday at 3GSM. MarketWatch


• Alfresco Network 1.2 ... Alfresco released Version 1.2 of the Alfresco Network, an open source enterprise content management solution. New features: enhanced administration, team collaboration capabilities, new search tools, and new platform support, among others. Available immediately. CCN Matthews


• Funambol on Push Email ... Funambol released the beta version of Version 3.0 of its push-based email server, which supports Exchange, Domino, IMAP and POP3 servers. Uses SyncML to synchronize data between devices and servers. Funambol is open source software. ComputerWorld

Comments

[Richard Lusk]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for mentioning our recent financing round. Very much appreciated.

Best,
Richard Lusk