EContent articles from September 2002

EContent archives from September 2002

Taking content to the street. (Edit This).
September 1, 2002... Just after we crossed into New York from Brooklyn on the Manhattan Bridge this weekend, my husband and I found ourselves at a dead stop on Canal Street in traffic of legendary proportions. Canal is always packed; you simply have no expectation...

Digital darwinism: piracy pushes progress. (News Feature).
September 1, 2002... It wasn't all that long ago that, if you chose not to see a movie in the theater, you had to wait months before it was available for home viewing. Fast forward to the summer of 2002 when an estimated 1 million to 3 million people illegally...

Akamai wins permanent injunction against Digital Island. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... The Federal District Court in Boston has granted Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s motion for entry of a permanent injunction against Digital Island, now a part of Exodus, a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, with respect to Digital Island's Footprint...

TopicalNet partners with Inmagic. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... TopicalNet, Inc. has announced that it has partnered with Inmagic, Inc., a provider of content and information management software and services. The agreement aims to provide Inmagic's customers with stronger search and categorization...

WSJ.com increases yearly subscription fee; introduces Health Industry Edition. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... The Wall Street Journal Online is raising its online subscription fee by $20 a year, to $79 from $59 for non-print subscribers, and to $39 from $29 for print subscribers. Access to the site originally cost $49 a year for non-print subscribers...

Akamai files suit against Speedera. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... Akamai Technologies, Inc. has filed an application in California Superior Court to immediately enjoin Speedera Networks, Inc. from further access to, and use of, Akamai trade secrets that a high-level Speedera officer has allegedly stolen from...

InQuira debuts and lands $12.6 million. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... InQuira, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based start-up, has made its official debut and unveiled its software, InQuira 5. The software is designed to allow customers and customer service representatives to interact in everyday language with the...

XyEnterprise and Corel team up for integrated XML authoring and publishing; Corel introduces Corel Ventura 10. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... XyEnterprise, a developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, and Corel Corporation have announced an ongoing partnership to deliver an integrated XML content creation and high-volume publishing solution for...

NStein launches News NServer automated-indexing solution. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... NStein Technologies, Inc., a provider of software business solutions to the epublishing industry, has announced the launch of its new automated indexing product targeted to news publishers. The solution aims to allow newspapers, newswires, and...

AltaVista launches AltaVista Prisma. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... AltaVista Company has announced the launch of its AltaVista Prisma technology. AltaVista Prisma is a search technology designed to work so that when a person enters a query, the 12 most strongly associated words, phrases, names, or concepts are...

LexisNexis launches its taxonomy, concept identification techniques. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... LexisNexis has launched a content organizer capability, jointly developed with Verity Inc., designed to enable a business to leverage its information assets for better decision-making by classifying and integrating a business's enterprise...

EDS, Sun, and Vignette launch joint portal solution. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... EDS, Sun Microsystems, and Vignette Corp. have launched a new joint portal solution, based on the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform, which offers endusers a single point of entry for information and rock-solid levels of security. The...

Quiver unveils QKS Topic Advisor and releases QKS Classifier. (Product News).
September 1, 2002... Quiver, Inc., a provider of categorization software for enterprise and online content, has unveiled QKS Topic Advisor, and upgraded its QKS Classifier. The second product in the Quiver Knowledge Suite, QKS Topic Advisor, is a taxonomy...

Industries adopt Google corporate search products. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... Google Inc., has announced that aerospace, technology, broadcasting, retail, and educational institutions have adopted the Google Search Appliance to enable employees and customers to find products and information within corporate intranets and...

Jupiter now reporting on content management. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... Jupiter Media Metrix has reported that businesses are overspending drastically on digital content management systems. According to the first report from Jupiter's new Content Management Service entitled, The Content Management Threshold,...

Dialog makes DataStar available free to library schools. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... Dialog, a Thomson business and a provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, has announced that its DataStarWeb service will be available without charge to library schools worldwide starting in September...

Artesia and Electronic Solutions partner. (Industry News).
September 1, 2002... Artesia Technologies has announced that London-based digital production facility Electronic Solutions has integrated Artesia's TEAMS DAM solution into its offering. This will allow Electronic Solutions' customers, including European mobile...

AltaVista Company has appointed Jan Pedersen, Ph.D., chief scientist. (PeopleWare).
September 1, 2002... AltaVista Company has appointed Jan Pedersen, Ph.D., chief scientist. Pedersen will spearhead the company's middle-and long-term product initiatives, including research and development efforts on user-centric search technologies.

iManage, Inc. has appointed Steve Pattison vice president of business development. (PeopleWare).
September 1, 2002... iManage, Inc. has appointed Steve Pattison vice president of business development. Pattison will be responsible for iManage's inbound and outbound product and technology partnerships.

John O'Connor has been appointed to the position of vice president, administration for H.W. Wilson. (PeopleWare).
September 1, 2002... John O'Connor has been appointed to the position of vice president, administration for H.W. Wilson. O'Connor will hold executive management responsibility for the operation of the Office of Personal Administration, Maintenance, and Security.

EMC Corporation has announced that David Goulden has joined the company as executive vice president of global marketing and business development. (PeopleWare).
September 1, 2002... EMC Corporation has announced that David Goulden has joined the company as executive vice president of global marketing and business development. Mark Lewis, a longtime storage executive, has joined EMC as executive vice president of new...

Metrics.
September 1, 2002... Metrics Market Share: XML & WS Security vs. 3A Security Market Note: 3A = Authorization, Authentication, Administration Remainder Market of Security Share XML & Market WS Security 2002 96%...

The siren song of structure: heeding the call of reusability.
September 1, 2002... So you just attended a fantastic content management system software demo that showed you several wonderful approaches to obtaining greater value from your content. With this new CMS, the press release that you compose in Microsoft Word for...

XML hits the big time: major database player get into XML.
September 1, 2002... Now that XML has moved beyond being the latest cool thing, and is in fact being widely adopted and deployed, some practical questions are being asked about it. But these questions are only starting to be answered. Perhaps the biggest...

[r.sup.3] the three Rs of site success.
September 1, 2002... The question for Web sites is no longer, "to charge or not to charge," but rather "how much can I charge for what?" Many sites that have found success charging for interactive content are doing so, in part, by leveraging the value of online...

From ancient searcher to Amazon-aholic: finding the link between Econtent and ecommerce.
September 1, 2002... When we stoop-backed, wizened online veterans gather around the pot-bellied stove down in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution, our cackling often turns to tall tales of the early days of online. For, as we ancient warriors of the online...

Flash MX. (Econtent Decision-maker Review).
September 1, 2002... Company: Macromedia Purpose: Web content creation and distribution Starting Price: $499 Reviewer's View: A combination of easy-to-create animation, robust scripting, small file sizes, and 98% player penetration makes Flash the...

Copyright out of whack, I: perpetual protection; we now have effectively perpetual copyright, which, to put it bluntly, doesn't exactly promote the progress of science and the more practical arts. (DisContent).
September 1, 2002... Here's an oldie but a goodie: "The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries." ...

Save money now! Read this column: organizations are starting to consider purchasing content management software with virtually no idea of what is involved in the selection of the software, or the implementation issues. (Behind the Firewall).
September 1, 2002... By the time you reach this page, you will have already read your way through numerous new product announcements and feature articles of the highest quality. The challenge for the columnist is to find a way of grabbing your attention when you...

Welcome to our site...Now what are you worth? The internet allows publishers to sell advertising against users, not just against content. (Follow the Money).
September 1, 2002... Sarah Chubb has a unique "problem"...the sort more Web executives would like to have. The President of CondeNet, home of high-profile content sites such as Epicurious.com and Style.com, is running out of ad inventory for a very popular and...

Oracle Mobile: addictive wireless content; "when mobile content is done right it has a bright future, if it's thought about properly. And Oracle is focused on creating mobile tools that work for a business market." (Profile).
September 1, 2002... If you are among the many who think the wireless data revolution has sputtered to an early halt, give a listen to Oracle Mobile CTO Jacob Christfort who has emerged as a kind of Pied Piper for mobile content. Christfort enthusiastically...

Alacra: the proof is in the packaging. (Profile).
September 1, 2002... "In the areas of both knowledge management and content management, vendors have over-promised and under-delivered...but in the next five years, there should be an array of interesting solutions." If information is a gift, then Alacra has...

Info pros take over the government. (End of File).
September 1, 2002... WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 6, 2002). The country has witnessed one of the most remarkable elections in recent memory. The Information Party, composed of former Democrats and Republicans frustrated at the inability of federal government agencies to...