Shared Spaces Briefing, Jul 7
Updates from Shared Spaces.
Today's highlights: Action Technologies TeamWorks; Near-Time Flow; Nextel Partners Adopts SharePoint Portal Server; SINA buys Davidhill Capital for UC IM; BlackBerry in Chinese; Insight into Microsoft in Australia;
- Action Technologies released ActionWorks TeamWorks, a suite of collaborative and administrative project management tools for teams. TeamWorks supports knowledge workers “by enabling them to negotiate which work is to be done when and by whom, and then to assess whether the work has been completed as agreed”. Comment: Action Technologies has been in the collaboration and workflow space for a LONG time … it's great to hear that it's still pushing the boundaries. However, I find the product name a bit weird … perhaps ActionWorks Team would be more appropriate. Action Technologies
- Near-Time released Near-Time Flow, a peer-to-peer collaborative content and knowledge manager product, built for Mac OS X Panther. Key features: collaborative authoring and versioning of content, shared repository of content, automatic indexing, and collective editing and context-driven discussion around content, among others. Available immediately. Near-Time
- New customer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003: Nextel Partners. Comment: I wonder how many *free* Windows SharePoint Services sites it had before forking out for Portal Server? Microsoft
- SINA Corporation, an online media company, Web portal and ISP in China acquired Davidhill Capital for its UC instant messaging technology platform. “The UC instant messaging service allows users to communicate in real-time over the Internet and mobile phone networks, via text messages, images and voice. UC also provides community services such as chat rooms, online games, alumni clubs, online karaoke and other entertainment services. Based on a highly scalable technology platform, the UC instant messaging service has approximately 80 million registered user accounts and approximately 200,000 peak simultaneous online user accounts.” prnewswire.com
- Research In Motion is preparing a Chinese-language version of its BlackBerry wireless email handset, in anticipation of entering the Chinese market. Both CSL and Hutchison Mobile are preparing to launch BlackBerry. Reuters
- Data#3, an Australian-based Microsoft business partner, says this about business in Australia: (1) the Microsoft Business Solutions game (eg, Navision) is extremely hard due to competitive pressures, and (2) SharePoint-based services have driven a lot of business in the past 12 months. arnnet.com.au
