Trovix Inc., a provider of search technology, has announced that it has raised $13 million in its Series B financing. The financing was led by Granite Ventures, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and also included participation from Trovix's existing investors, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and 3i. With the close of this round, Trovix has raised $18.25 million since inception. The company's initial funding of $5.25 million was announced in December 2005.

(www.trovix.com; www.granitevc.com; www.usvp.com; www.3i.com)

Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, and provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, has appointed Karen Abramson president and CEO of its Medical Research business unit. Abramson joins Wolters Kluwer Health after serving as VP and GM of CT Corsearch, a division of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services, having started there in 2000 as VP of operations. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Abramson was VP of operations at MemberWorks, Inc., a direct marketer of membership service programs, online sweepstakes, and savings promotions.

(www.wkhealth.com; www.wolterskluwer.com)

Google has announced that Google News has archive search to help users search for events, people, and ideas over different periods of time. When users search for an historical event or person, they will see relevant articles related to their query, and they will be able to browse an historical timeline to get a broader overview of the results. Articles related to a story or theme within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see more perspectives on the events.

Users can also narrow their searches to specific time periods or publications of interest. Users can search archives from Google News by clicking on the 'News Archive Search' link. For selected queries, users of Google web search may also see links to the top three related articles from the news archives integrated at the bottom of the result page. The service is being launched on the news.google.com domain and enables searching of articles in English as well as articles in a number of other languages.

Archive Search includes freely available articles from sources such as TIME.com, The Guardian, and others, as well as snippets of articles available for a fee or via a subscription, such as those from news organizations like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Newsweek Interactive, and from news aggregators like AccessMyLibrary.com from Thomson Gale, Factiva, HighBeam Research, LexisNexis and others. When searching news archives, results are ranked based on relevance.

(www.google.com)

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced Adobe Captivate 2 software, which enables the creation of interactive simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training modules. Based on Macromedia Flash technology, Adobe Captivate 2 generates interactive content in Flash, without requiring users to have programming knowledge or multimedia skills. With Adobe Captivate 2, users can create content that includes scored interactions, feedback, audio, and video. With this new version, complex branching scenarios are designed to allow users to develop specific scenarios by visually mapping out the different learning paths.

Authors can develop software demonstrations and simulations complete with text descriptions, editable mouse movements, and scored interactions with learner feedback. New workflow enhancements are designed to allow users to develop scenario-based training by visually branching out different learner paths. A new simulation wizard in Adobe Captivate 2 can help users develop soft-skills simulations, add content to placeholder slides, and set up the branching with point-and-click functionality. Adobe Captivate 2 automatically generates interactive content in Flash format. Adobe Captivate 2 users can engage their audiences with Flash video content and reuse and manage media content in a project library. Among other new features, Adobe Captivate 2 users have the ability to focus the learner's attention with zoom and gray out effects.

Users can harness Flash technology to create content while maintaining small file size, and generate multiple file formats such as SWF, EXE, or MP3 for podcasts. Flash users can use Adobe Captivate 2 to export project files directly into the Flash authoring tool for advanced editing and scripting. Adobe Captivate 2 content can be deployed and integrated with other elearning solutions such as Macromedia Breeze, Macromedia Authorware, Questionmark Perception, and SCORM/AICC compliant Learning Management Systems.

Adobe Captivate 2 is expected to ship later this year at an estimated street price of $599. Registered users can upgrade to Adobe Captivate 2 for an estimated street price of $299.

(www.adobe.com)

SirsiDynix, a provider of technology solutions for libraries, has announced it is forming a new team to deliver solutions to the K-12 market segment. These solutions include SchoolRooms--an online exploration, discovery, and learning portal for students, teachers, and parents--and a library management system interface for library media specialists to circulate, catalog, and maintain their individual collections.

Chuck Leachman, who has more than 30 years of experience with K-12 libraries, will rejoin SirsiDynix to lead the team as director of SchoolRooms/K-12 Market Solutions. He will assist public libraries, consortia, state libraries, and state departments of education to understand the educational benefits of SchoolRooms and how it can facilitate a collaborative relationship between all interested parties in better serving students, teachers, and parents. Leachman joins SirsiDynix from Sagebrush Corp., where he was strategic accounts manager.

(www.sirsidynix.com)

MindTouch has launched the MindTouch Connector for Microsoft Outlook, a tool for publishing messages and attachments from an email platform directly into wiki pages. Businesses will have the ability to unlock, organize, and share the full context of email correspondence in a collaborative environment instead of isolating the information on individual desktops.

The MindTouch Connector for Microsoft Outlook is an enhancement for the MindTouch Managed Office Server (MOS), an onsite wiki appliance. MindTouch MOS sits securely behind a customer's firewall, allowing companies to maintain control of their data by keeping it on their own networks. To use the feature, an employee first selects the email they want to post on the MindTouch MOS then clicks the 'Publish' button on the toolbar. The entire conversational thread and all related attachments are then captured in a central repository where the information can be shared.

The MindTouch Connector for Microsoft Outlook is immediately available to all MindTouch customers covered under existing monthly or annual service plans. Availability, pricing, and purchase options for users of MindTouch DekiWiki through hosted wiki providers will be available in October.

(www.mindtouch.com)

'Mobile Earth', a mapping and information service has been launched for Vodafone Germany's mobile subscribers. The service, available on Java-enabled devices, has been created by LocatioNet Systems Ltd., a provider of mobile mapping and location applications, and is using content from TeleAtlas, a digital mapping company. The Mobile Earth service enables mobile users to view any address in Germany over full color maps or high resolution aerial photos, calculate routes between addresses and view the results on a map, in addition to searching and viewing over four hundred thousand points of interest in Germany. The Mobile Earth application requires a download from the Vodafone Live! mobile portal. The application has an advanced Java-based user interface with maps delivered to the users' handset from the central server over the wireless network.

(http://www.locationet.com/mobile_earth.htm; www.teleatlas.com)

EBSCO has announced a partnership with Elsevier to offer individual ejournals to academic and government institutions in locations throughout the world. This offering, made possible through E-Select: E-journals from Elsevier, is designed for institutions with small print journal collections.

Specifically designed for individual-title online access, E-Select: E-journals from Elsevier provides full text access to more than 1,300 titles in the areas of social sciences and STM. It also includes access to a backfile of subscribed content dating back to January 1995. Additionally, researchers have the ability to search all articles available on the ScienceDirect platform, including access to nearly eight million abstracts. They can also set up alerts to notify when new issues are available electronically (often prior to print). Individual password access is available for up to five unique users. Users also have unlimited viewing, downloading, and printing from the journals to which the institution subscribes.

(http://www.ebsco.com/e-select)

JumpTap, Inc., a provider of carrier-centric mobile search and advertising solutions, has unveiled its JumpTap Advertising Suite and a Mobile Search Index for mobile operators. The JumpTap Mobile Search Index is a catalog of websites designed specifically for mobile phones and customizable for operator specific business rules. The Mobile Search Index is designed for subscribers to discover off-portal content by returning relevant websites from the index, complete with title, page snippet, and URL. The JumpTap Mobile Search Index also provides previews and shortcuts for certain search results including "buy" functions, "audio preview" and "image preview." By working with the mobile operator and their subscriber information databases, JumpTap can also provide personalized suggestions and alternate search recommendations. JumpTap has utilized a combination of spidering techniques, site submission, XML feeds, and editorial control to create an index of searchable mobile sites.

The Mobile Search Index is designed to be used in combination with the JumpTap Advertising Suite. While the Mobile Search Index allows subscribers to find off-portal content and services, the JumpTap Advertising Suite provides operators with a solution for generating mobile advertising revenue. The JumpTap Advertising Suite offers a full set of advertising methods, including pay-per-click, pay-per-call, banners, and interstitials. Both solutions are accessible via JumpTap's WAP, BREW, and Java user interfaces. JumpTap's Mobile Search Index allows off-portal and on-portal mobile properties to be discovered by organic searches when subscribers are using the mobile operator's branded search interface. JumpTap's Mobile Search Index will be populated through: Site submission; Carrier portal directories; Spidering; and Intelligent discovery. The JumpTap Advertising Suite is designed to allow any company that wants to reach mobile subscribers to promote their content and services via the mobile phone.

(www.jumptap.com)

Evidence Matters, a digital medical resource that allows clinicians to compare therapies for their patients based on peer-reviewed medical research, has released specialty content in three areas for its evidence-based search engine. These are modules covering disease topics in Respiratory Disorders, Gastroenterology, and Neurology. ProQuest Information and Learning is a global distributor of Evidence Matters to the academic and hospital markets. Evidence Matters research comes from sources including MEDLINE and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health), as well as the Cochrane Library and journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, and The Lancet.

(www.evidencematters.com; www.il.proquest.com)

Dada, a social community and entertainment provider, has announced that Dada Mobile will be available in the U.S. Its suite of mobile social networking and entertainment products are packaged and combine social networking with the user's wireless device.

Using Dada Mobile's services, consumers can: Update personal blogs with pictures and video with, Life.dada,net; Download mobile entertainment (ringtones, wallpapers, games) with, Mobi.dada.net; Help matchmaking and meet local singles by perusing member profiles with Dada Mobile's Online Dating Service, Love.dada.net; Connect in real time letting them text message mobile friends and start mobile groups.

(www.dada.net)

ProQuest Information and Learning has announced a partnership with Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of information protection and storage services, to introduce the PAL Archive Program. Through this initiative ProQuest will deposit its Perpetual Access Licensed (PAL) content offsite in Iron Mountain's vaults to serve PAL customers who seek the security of a third-party storage option. ProQuest will deposit all perpetual access content--including images, ASCII, and metadata--in Iron Mountain vaults via the Company's Intellectual Property Management services. ProQuest will deposit all existing PAL content and will make regular deposits of new content. ProQuest PAL customers can participate in this third-party archive by contacting their ProQuest sales representative.

(www.il.proquest.com; www.ironmountain.com)