Thursday September 9, 2010

Imaginatik Updates Idea Management Software With Activity Monitor And More

Imaginatik, the developer of an idea management software for enterprises, has released a new version of its offering, Called Idea Central, the software aims to provide a collaborative environment to share, evaluate and curate ideas within an organization.
Idea Central has added an activity monitor to give users a realtime visibility into activity within [...]

Imaginitik Updates Idea Management Software With Activity Monitor And More

Imaginatik, the developer of an idea management software for enterprises, has released a new version of its offering, Called Idea Central, the software aims to provide a collaborative environment to share, evaluate and curate ideas within an organization.
Idea Central has added an activity monitor to give users a realtime visibility into activity within [...]

Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million More

Data center automation company Puppet Labs this morning announced that it has raised $5 million in funding, bringing the total amount of capital invested in the fledging startup to $7 million.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the Series B round, while existing investors True Ventures and Radar Partners – which participated in the Series A [...]

Zoho Calendar Steps Out Of Beta With Sharing, Subscribing And More

Zoho’s suite of productivity apps is undoubtedly comprehensive, with over 20 different products available to users. Apps include Zoho Mail, CRM, Projects, Planner, Meeting, and more. But a calendering app is an important layer that can sit on top of and unify all these applications. Zoho Calendar, which was launched into beta last year, is [...]

Google Apps For Education Wins Two More States, Rolls Out Training Tools For Teachers

Google has made it fairly clear that adoption of Google Apps at schools and colleges is vital to the growth of the productivity suite as a whole. The strategy makes sense; not only do educational institutions represent a huge market for Google Apps, but schools and colleges are where many people get trained, start relying [...]

4INFO CEO: Expect More Acquisitions, Revenues Will Quintuple [Video]

4INFO CEO Zaw Thet is trying to shed the title, “King of SMS.”
The mobile advertising company dominates the US SMS market, delivering some 400 million text messages each month (its monthly rate has roughly doubled from early 2010)— but Thet is tired of his crown, or rather, he’s eyeing a different one. 4INFO is trying [...]

Zoho Adds Workspaces, Access Controls, Widgets And More To Zoho Wiki

Zohi Wiki, which originally launched in 2006, is getting an upgrade today, with additional collaboration features, access controls and more.
Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho [...]

Google Apps To Become More Connected—Adding Picasa, Reader, AdWords And More

One of the virtues of using Google’s products are the connections you get to the search giant’s other applications. For example, I love that my Gmail account can connect to iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family, making the transition between applications seamless and easy. Google is now planning to bring [...]

Video: Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz, The China Situation, And More

Today, Google’s social strategy took a big step with the launch of Google Buzz — a new FriendFeed-like feature that’s integrated into Gmail, mobile search, Maps, and more (you can see our live notes from the announcement here). Shortly after the event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin fielded questions backstage from members of the press. [...]

Yammer Communities Open The Door To B2B Microblog Collaboration And Much More

As we reported last night, Yammer has just announced that it will begin allowing users to sign up for the microblogging service without requiring email addresses that are associated with their company domain names (e.g. jason@company.com). This new feature, called Communities, will open the service to less formal organizations, and even families. And [...]