Innodata Corporation, a provider of content supply chain solutions to commercial publishers, enterprises, government agencies, and archives, libraries and museums, has announced that effective immediately it will be doing business as Innodata Isogen. The company will ask its shareholders in November to approve the change of the corporate name to Innodata Isogen, Inc.

Since December 2001, when the company acquired Isogen International, a provider of standards-based content management and publishing systems, the company has steadily expanded the breadth and depth of its offering in an attempt to encompass the entire content supply chain. Doing business as Innodata Isogen is symbolic of this transformation. A content supply chain is the sequence of activities necessary to create, use, and distribute information and information products. The company is also rolling out a new logo and Web site--www.innodata-isogen.com.

(http://www.innodata-isogen.com)

Trigo Technologies, Inc., a provider of product information management software, has announced the completion of a $12 million Series C round of expansion financing led by Pequot Ventures. Pequot Ventures, the direct investment arm of Pequot Capital Management, Inc., joins Trigo's investor lineup that includes Bessemer Venture Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Mayfield, and Symphony Technology Group. All prior venture investors joined Pequot Ventures in the Series C round. In addition, Deborah Bernstein, a senior vice president at Pequot, has joined Trigo's board of directors. Trigo will use the proceeds of the funding to meet demand for its products and services. Already cash flow positive and profitable, Trigo plans to accelerate the development of new products and expand its sales, marketing, development, and alliances organizations.

(http://www.pequotventures.com), (http://www.trigo.com)

Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content management for the enterprise, has announced broad support for the Microsoft .NET platform and its programming model, the .NET Framework, which is designed to help software developers and systems administrators build and customize applications. Interwoven's recently announced ContentServices 2.0 SDK (CS SDK) is a Web Services toolkit that interoperates with the .NET Framework, allowing customers to use their tools of choice to develop integrations and custom applications that incorporate enterprise content management functionality.

Interwoven ContentServices 2.0 is a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides standards-based access to content management services such as task management, workflow, user rights, project configuration, and versioning. ContentServices 2.0 supports WSDL 1.1 and provides these files in an attempt to make it easy for developers to integrate content management into packaged applications such as portals, CRM, ERP, and custom applications. .NET developers can access Interwoven Content Services with Visual Studio .NET, increasing their productivity.  

Future releases of Interwoven ContentServices will enable point-and-click as well as custom integrations with .NET-based portal servers such as SharePoint, and will support the recently ratified Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) specification in order to fully support .NET servers. In addition to support for .NET, Interwoven's client and server technologies provide integrations with Microsoft products such as Office, Commerce Server, IIS, and SQL Server as well as client tools that work with tools such as Internet Explorer 6 and Office 2000.

(http://www.interwoven.com)

Peppercoin, Inc. a micropayment technology company, has raised $4.25 million in its first institutional round of financing from POD Holding and private investors. The funding will be used to accelerate Peppercoin's product development and expand marketing programs. The funding brings the total raised to date to $5.9 million, which includes a seed round from private investors that was announced in February.

Peppercoin also announced the appointment of Robert Kiburz, formerly VP and General Manager of the Billing and Customer Care unit at Lucent Technologies, as President and CEO. New appointments to the Peppercoin Board of Directors include Johan Pontin and Peter S. Lawrence, managing director, both of POD Holding. Pontin is the founder of POD Holding, a private equity partnership with offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Boston, MA. They join Kiburz and Peppercoin's two founders, Professors Ronald L. Rivest and Silvio Micali, co-founders of the Cryptography and Information Security Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science. Rivest is also a founder of RSA Security and VeriSign.

The Peppercoin Payment Service is designed to allow music companies, online game providers, newspaper and magazine publishers, and other digital content providers to sell low-priced online content profitably. Newspapers, magazines and other publishers will be able to add "newsstand" pricing for single-issue or article access, while game sites will be able to add pay-per-play pricing to their subscription models.

(http://www.peppercoin.com), (http://www.podholding.com)

Vio Inc., a suppliers of collaborative digital supply chain software and networking services for the graphic arts industry, has acquired Portland PMS, a digital asset systems integration company. Established in 1992, Portland provides integrated graphic arts software solutions for both publishing-related clients and the marketing departments of corporations. Founder and managing director of Portland, Peter Humphreys, takes on the role of UK Sales Director of the newly created Vio Integrated Solutions subsidiary, bringing with him Portland's complete development, sales, and technical support staff.

(http://www.vio.com)

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has entered into an information alliance with Information Today, Inc., (ITI). This new venture is intended to allow SLA and ITI to share information and resources and assist with the cross promotion of conferences and programs. In addition, SLA members who are new subscribers of ITI publications will be given a ten-percent discount. The partnership will remain in effect through 2004 and does not limit SLA's ability to work with other companies.

(http://www.infotoday.com), (http://www.sla.org)

Countermind, LLC has announced the release of the Mobile Intelligence (MI) Application Assembler. MI Application Assembler is designed for the development, management, and deployment of enterprise-grade mobile/wireless solutions.

MI Application Assembler is a Graphic User Interface (GUI) based tool for modeling business processes and generating XML-based Application Descriptors that run on the Mobile Intelligence Platform. With a drag-n-drop interface, developers or an IT administrator can create mobile applications from a model of corporate business processes. No coding necessary, the MI Application Assembler validates and generates applications that are then rendered on the mobile device of choice.  

(http://www.countermind.com), (http://www.countermind.com/miapplicationassembler)

Moreover Technologies, a provider of aggregated online business information to enterprises, has launched a real-time weblog search tool for the enterprise. The product harvests information from over 25,000 weblogs in real-time and is designed to enable corporate users to access the news, commentary, and consumer opinion that resides within weblogs.

To overcome the issue of the variable quality of blog content the team of human editors at Moreover Technologies assigns each blog a ranking that corresponds to the reliability, integrity, and caliber of the blog thus enabling users to identify high value information. Additionally, each blog is tagged with a range of metadata including, but not limited to, the number of incoming and outgoing links to it as well as the blog's status in the wider blogging community. The aggregated blog information is also available to users as pre-configured or customized topical 'feeds' that provide users with access to relevant information as it appears online. Blog content will also be made available via Moreover's ci-metabase product--an XML feed of all information harvested by Moreover.

(http://www.moreover.com)

LexisNexis U.S., a provider of legal, news, and business information services, has released LexisNexis Company Dossier into the academic market. Corporations have been using this research tool for client and business development, sales and marketing, and competitive intelligence needs, and now its availability expands to the academic sector.

Company Dossier provides access to information including business news, competitive intelligence, financials, trademarks, and pending litigation from multiple sources and compiles a profile on a targeted company. Users can specify search criteria on up to 16 attributes simultaneously, such as geographic location, company size, and financial metrics, and output side-by-side comparisons against other companies.

LexisNexis Company Dossier covers more than 20 million global companies and compiles reports from a combination of new and existing sources, including Directory of Corporate Affiliations, EDGARPlus Database, FBR Asian Company Profiles, Hoover's Company Profiles, Investext Current Reports, news publications, and federal and state cases.

LexisNexis Company Dossier is designed to integrate into LexisNexis Academic while it simplifies company research and enhances the quality of company-related content within a product already familiar to college students, professors, and librarians. A search form for Company Dossier now appears directly on the homepage of LexisNexis Academic and within the Business Search Form for subscribing institutions.

As a supplement to the sources in LexisNexis Company Dossier, subscribers will also gain access to new sources of premium content that can be searched online within the business area of LexisNexis Academic, including Bloomberg News, BMI Company Reports, Business Public Records, Experian Business Reports, and Teikoku Japanese Companies-Detailed Reports.

(http://www.lexisnexis.com), (http://www.lexisnexis.com/academiccompanydossier), (http://www.reedelsevier.com)

iUpload, a net-native content management solution provider, has announced a new interface, the iUpload Dashboard, that is designed to simplify the integration of emarketing, surveys, and analytics with content management.

iUpload Content Manager version 4.1 also contains a "cloning" feature that allows replication of an architecture for reuse. The cloning feature uses "wrappers" or templates that are optimized so that there is just one file with all navigational labels and content areas on the site to edit or translate. This approach is intended to entirely eliminate the need for content authors or translators to concern themselves with site architecture issues.

Other new tools in iUpload Content Manager version 4.1 include: extended templating tags, attributes, and rules give designers and administrators greater control in how content is captured and presented and allows them to build more complex templates; enhanced Module Integration and Page Properties with new fields for: recommended page keyword, content categories, and language classifications; and a Macromedia Dreamweaver Extension that supports all iUpload tags and attributes, allowing for template creation within Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Existing iUpload subscribers will gain access to the iUpload Dashboard and other enhancements in iUpload Content Manager version 4.1 automatically and at no additional cost.

(http://www.iupload.com)

Fast Track Systems Inc., a clinical development optimization company, and HyperVision Ltd., an enterprise authoring solutions developer, have announced a joint technology partnership to integrate HyperVision's WorX for Word XML editor with Fast Track's suite of TrialSpace data-driven software solutions. The addition of Microsoft Word-based XML authoring and document construction capabilities to Fast Track's TrialSpace Designer application is intended to enable professionals to easily design, review, and implement structured clinical trial protocols in a familiar word processing environment. The integration brings XML authoring and document construction capabilities to the Designer application, a framework for designing, reviewing, and implementing clinical protocols. This joint technology is intended to enable pharmaceutical experts to more quickly and easily create high quality, accurate clinical trials using Microsoft Word 2000 or XP.

(http://www.fast-track.com), (http://www.hvltd.com)

AKS-Labs has released Advanced PDF manager, a combination of PDF search and PDF-to-text converting tool designed to help users obtain information from PDFs.

Advanced PDF Manager includes three key features: preview pane, custom search options, and the ability to generate reports. Applied to a document search, Preview helps users to browse through search results without opening each file. It shows a small piece of the file, and it highlights the keywords that it has found. Using the Custom Search Option, users do not have to specify search parameters every time they do new search. The ability to generate reports is designed to help users find some documents and generate search report that will contain citations from found files and other information. The report is an .htm file, so it can be printed, sent by email, or put into an archive. Advanced PDF Manager also allows users to run a search query with a keyword specified as a regular expression with simple syntax, that includes "+," "-," and "exact phrase" tokens and there is a "search in zip" checkbox that uncovers PDFs that are in zip archives.

Advanced PDF Manager has standard abilities to search files by size and by date, as well as the ability to search in several folders. It can also be used to retrieve non-pdf files, such as .htm pages or .doc files. Advanced PDF Manager personal edition costs $60 and the evaluation version can be downloaded from www.aks-labs.com

(http://www.aks-labs.com)

xrefer, an online ready reference service that provides full-text, aggregated content to academic, public, and corporate libraries, has released version 2.0 of its xreferplus service, which includes improved information visualization capabilities (a new "Research Mapper"), a host of new content, and unit conversions.  

The Research Mapper is a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in xreferplus are interconnected. Users can access the Mapper from any set of search results, enabling them to quickly explore the links among topics within the area they're researching. The Research Mapper displays all of the xreference links that are included in a set of search results in an interactive format that illustrates how--and how closely--the search results are connected to other xreferplus entries. Research Maps can guide users to the most relevant information related to their research, and can lead users to areas that warrant further exploration. A public version of the Mapper is available at www.xrefer.com/research.

Recent additions to xreferplus include The Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Webster's New World Computer Dictionary, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, and The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. The company continues to add new titles regularly, focusing on content that includes image and audio files in addition to full text entries.  

xrefer has also added Unit Conversions to its reference library, which will enable users to compare and calculate measurements of area, distance, energy, speed, volume, weight. and more. The conversion calculator simultaneously displays all units of measure within a given category, and is integrated with xreferplus.  

(http://www.xrefer.com)

Open Text Corporation, provider of Livelink collaboration and content management software, has announced that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has deployed Livelink as a first step in complying with the Federal Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA) pertaining to electronic information management and process streamlining of its internal business processes.  

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the EEOC coordinates all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies through the operations of 51 field offices nationwide. The Commission interprets and enforces employment discrimination laws, monitors the federal sector employment discrimination program, provides funding and support to state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs), and sponsors outreach and technical assistance programs. To support federal requirements for electronic information management, Open Text Affinity Partner, Momentum Systems Inc., designed and implemented an integrated solution for tracking inquiries and correspondence coming into the EEOC from the public, members of Congress, White House, other EEOC offices and government Agencies.  

Facilitating the electronic storage, sharing, and management of EEOC information and processes, Livelink serves as the foundation for the correspondence tracking system. Introduced as a pilot project over a year ago, the Livelink solution manages all correspondence information electronically. It automatically generates editable form letter replies to inquiries and uses Livelink workflow functionality to establish an automated, online business process for making certain that inquiry responses are forwarded to and handled by the appropriate people within a predetermined amount of time.

(http://www.opentext.com), (http://www.opentext.com/livelink)

CareerBuilder.com, a recruitment resource, has expanded its agreement with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). As part of the enterprise-wide agreement, CareerBuilder.com will join FAST's Technology Advisory Board to help drive new advancements in FAST's product direction as it relates to the online recruitment sector. CareerBuilder.com will work exclusively with FAST in an effort to develop the industry's top search engine and deliver search tools for CareerBuilder.com's job seekers and employers. The agreement will go into effect on September 30, 2003.

CareerBuilder.com offers more than 7 million resumes and more than 400,000 job postings from over 25,000 employers. CareerBuilder.com began working with FAST in the fall of 2002, using FAST Data Search to power the search functionality for job and resume queries. Under the new agreement, CareerBuilder.com will deploy FAST Data Search in new ways across the CareerBuilder.com enterprise and serve as an advisor on product enhancement and creation for job and resume searches.

CareerBuilder.com provides job postings, a bilingual version of its site, customized packages, online career fairs, a resume database, and profiles of skilled and hourly workers. For job seekers, CareerBuilder.com offers the confidential Personal Search Agent that hunts for job opportunities in expressed areas of interest and emails them to job seekers. In addition, CareerBuilder.com gives job seekers the choice to search by industry, location, and job type, and provides online career assessments, coaching for interviews and tips for salary negotiations.

(http://www.careerbuilder.com), (http://www.fastsearch.com)

Mobius Management Systems, Inc., a provider of software for total content management (TCM), has announced that SEW Eurodrive Australia, the Australian subsidiary of the mechanical power transmission equipment manufacturer, has selected Mobius ViewDirect TCM to replace its former content management system. ViewDirect TCM is intended to enable SEW Eurodrive to leverage enterprise documents through a corporate portal that will provide employees with access to a range of job-specific information and enhance responsiveness to customers. ViewDirect TCM, with a certified interface to SAP ArchiveLink, will also provide a document imaging and archiving solution for incoming and outgoing documents associated with SAP R/3. ViewDirect TCM makes content in any format available for online access, delivers it via fax or email, and Web-enables it for use with front-office systems such as customer service, electronic statement presentment (ESP), and electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP). ViewDirect TCM also enables the integration of reports from enterprise applications such as SAP R/3 and legacy systems.

(http://www.mobius.com), (http://www.sew-eurodrive.com.au)

Legal firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP has selected EOS International to provide global legal library automation and knowledge management services to their attorneys located in offices around the world, replacing a system from Inmagic.

EOS International is a library information management software and service provider with a client base of over 5,000 special libraries. A client-driven company nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian award, EOS library automation software products (EOS.Web, EOS Q-Series, EOS GLAS, and hosted, EOS e-Library Services) serve the knowledge management needs of corporate, legal, medical, government, and special libraries.

(http://www.eosintl.com)