The News Review:
- ttawa Business Journal – Home Page
- SA and Unified Communications: Together at Last
- Heading for a Macintosh blockbuster
ttawa Business Journal – Home Page
ttawa Business Journal – Jan 30, 2008
The product released last ctober expands the capabilities of Model Technologies’ flagship product Context Portal. It used software to scan e-mails and identify key concepts generate summaries of messages attachments and websites and automatically categorize incoming messages. The new offering takes things a few steps further creating summaries of almost any type of document – Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Rich Text Format (RTF) Text HTML and Adobe PDF – with the click of a button on the dashboard. It also automatically summarizes Internet search results which eliminates the need to click in order to see if the information is relevant. The second product BlinkInfo provides summaries of hyperlinks directly on web pages when the visitor drags their mouse over the link. A box pops up with three or four sentences pulled from the destination website which gives the reader a good idea of the content. CRYPTCARD Year founded: 1989 Employees: 45 Venture capital to date: None Product or service: Two-factor authentication “CRYPTCard is in a perfect position to take complete advantage of the ever increasing and much needed security regulation and compliance standards beginning to be enforced in organizations across all industries.
SA and Unified Communications: Together at Last
sys-con.com – Jan 30, 2008
ne of the most important examples of a converged applicationavailable on the market today is Microsoft’s ffice Communications Server (CS) along with its client application ffice Communicator. From the end user’s perspective CS and ffice Communicatorprovide fully integrated support for presence-based instant messaging filetransfer white-boarding and application sharing as well as real-time audioand video communication. Even more important CS supports integration withother Microsoft ffice applications such as utlook (email) Word (wordprocessing) Excel (spreadsheet) PowerPoint (presentation graphics) andothers effectively “communications-enabling” these desktop productivityapplications. This integration proves useful when for example an end userreceives an email message from a contact. The end user can see the contact’sreal-time presence (availability) status and initiate an IM chat or audio callwith the contact – all from within utlook. SA is creating new opportunitiesfor UC by enabling new business process integration between voice and data networksthat turn common tasks into reusable Web services applications to improveworkflow and general business practices. By embracing the SA approach to UC enterprises openthemselves to the benefits of communication-enabled applications while simplifyingthe process needed to create them making the process easy for developers… ne of the most important examples of a converged applicationavailable on the market today is Microsoft’s ffice Communications Server (CS) along with its client application ffice Communicator. From the end user’s perspective CS and ffice Communicatorprovide fully integrated support for presence-based instant messaging filetransfer white-boarding and application sharing as well as real-time audioand video communication. Even more important CS supports integration withother Microsoft ffice applications such as utlook (email) Word (wordprocessing) Excel (spreadsheet) PowerPoint (presentation graphics) andothers effectively “communications-enabling” these desktop productivityapplications. This integration proves useful when for example an end userreceives an email message from a contact. The end user can see the contact’sreal-time presence (availability) status and initiate an IM chat or audio callwith the contact – all from within utlook. SA is creating new opportunitiesfor UC by enabling new business process integration between voice and data networksthat turn common tasks into reusable Web services applications to improveworkflow and general business practices. By embracing the SA approach to UC enterprises openthemselves to the benefits of communication-enabled applications while simplifyingthe process needed to create them making the process easy for developers.
Heading for a Macintosh blockbuster
Deccan Herald – Jan 30, 2008
There are all kinds of theories to explain the sudden resurgence — the lack of viruses the iPod halo effect the critical mass of Apple stores the disappointing debut of Windows Vista all those Apple TV ads the switch to Intel chip or maybe all of it together. Indeed this month two important software programs make their debut. ne is a minor upgrade from a big company — Microsoft ffice 2008 for Macintosh. The other is a big deal from a tiny company — MacSpeech Dictate a new speech-recognition program… The fonts colour schemes and tool panels look like they’ve come straight from the designers at Apple especially the palette that lets you drop your iPhoto pictures into Word or the other programs. Considering the four-year gap since the last version came along Microsoft hasn’t added much. For example you get a global search in Entourage formula auto-complete in Excel control over PowerPoint slideshows with the Apple remote and a terrific page-layout view in Word complete with linked boxes with auto-flowing text. ffice 2008 also lets you save your documents if you like in the new more compact file formats of ffice 2007 for Windows (. Blockbuster new features however are nonexistent.