DECA announced the formation of a new type of digital entertainment studio. Evolving from the traditional studio model, DECA was founded to actively identify, develop, finance, market, and distribute interactive entertainment concepts and properties across the internet, as well as other emerging digital technologies and platforms. DECA has created the first hybrid production and commercial model specifically for mainstream digital entertainment. DECA's production model combines premium video, social networking, user-generated content, and community features to deliver high-quality, interactive entertainment. The commercial model is designed to provide new digital opportunities for consumers, brand advertisers, distributors, and creative talent. DECA is launching new digital entertainment properties with leading global distributors and advertisers and intends to announce these partnerships shortly. Furthermore, international investors have backed DECA's business with $5 million in Series A funding. These investors include: Mayfield Fund, General Catalyst Partners, and Atomico Investments.

(www.deca.tv)

NetworkedPlanet, a vendor of information management tools and products, launched its new TMCore SharePoint Module 2.0, which enables users to take all documents within SharePoint and connect them with key business concepts. This allows any business that has implemented a Microsoft SharePoint system to enhance search and navigation by taking into account contextual information, such as the user, projects they work on, and their personal skill-set. The TMCore system manages concepts instead of text indexes, which help to qualify the relevance of the documents that search terms are found in, and delivers relevant links to other SharePoint information. The TMCore SharePoint Module 2.0 is intended to allow users to search documents laterally, on the basis of themes and concepts that link them. It automatically classifies documents by content types and tags them with key themes, and then users can enhance and refine the classification of individual documents as they work with them, making their classification of documents available to other users.

(www.networkedplanet.com, www.microsoft.com)

Quantcast, an open internet ratings service, has launched a suite of media measurement services for publishers in its Quantified Publisher program. The program, which is free to join at Quantcast.com, allows publishers to tag their websites, videos, widgets, and games for direct measurement. Quantcast's suite of media measurement services includes: Tabbed Quantified Publisher Profiles for individual media properties including a traffic overview for insight on key audience metrics; The Quantified Publisher Network View, providing measurement of aggregated traffic statistics as well as a single point of control for publishers with multiple sites and services; and Video and Widget Measurement Services to track impressions and interaction with Flash-based videos, widgets, games, and more.

(www.quantcast.com)

Open Text Corporation announced new offerings providing Web 2.0 capabilities integrated into the company's RedDot web content management suite. RedDot intends to make the integration of interactive applications and Web 2.0 functions possible in all web-enabled media with new modules for Web 2.0. RedDot allows organizations to expand their web initiatives to include blogs, forums, wikis, comment fields, and ratings, and incorporate these applications into the website. Editors can initiate discussions in an intranet setting, or write an editorial entry, attach documents, and expand it with a forum or blog. Specific user groups can be granted "read" and "write" authorization. The components can also be reused for multiple web projects.

(www.opentext.com, www.reddot.com)

Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of secure enterprise search solutions, announced that it won a U.S. patent for technology it developed to automatically train the language model and modify the dictionary of a speech recognition engine used with its Coveo Audio-Video Search (CAVS) technology. Coveo's patented solution not only retrieves relevant audio and video, but does so by integrating smart speech recognition technology capabilities. Coveo's speech recognition training capabilities 'self-learns' by leveraging relevant contextual content related to the audio and video files, allowing it to better model the enterprise language. Working in unison with CAVS, the solution converts speech found within audio and video files into text, so that the text can be indexed to more accurately match user queries and offer a more productive search experience.

(www.coveo.com)

ClipBlast!, an internet video search and navigation platform, unveiled its new ClipBlast! Video Widget. The ClipBlast! Video Widget is an internet video search and navigation tool that resides on the desktop, enabling search, navigation, browsing, and viewing of the Video Web without having to launch a browser or visit a specific website. ClipBlast! is working with video-content providers--including MySpace, Showtime, Fox, CBS and independent producers--to create customized, branded versions of the Video Widget for specific target audiences. ClipBlast's Video Widget goes beyond pure video search, intending to help viewers personalize and discover videos, using streaming real-time indexing to alert them of the most recent and relevant videos as they come online. The Video Widget, like the ClipBlast! video search platform itself, was built as a Web 2.0 application, to ensure that viewers have access to the entire Video Web.

(www.clipblast.com)

Generate Inc., a company focused on in enabling real-time contextual information, is unveiling new technology. This new widget, called Generate gClick, is designed for publishers and media companies in order to enable their consumers to extract contextual, real-time business intelligence from any web page, with just one click. American City Business Journals intends to deploy gClick on their 40+ bizjournals websites shortly along with several other magazine, newspaper, and online media sites. gClick intends to enable publishers and media companies to make content more contextual to their consumers while driving increases in non-editorial-based advertising inventory. gClick uses proprietary extraction and matching technology that analyzes web pages to provide comprehensive information that's contextually relevant to what the user is reading.

(www.generateinc.com)

ACOM Solutions, Inc.'s EZContentManager v.3.3 was announced. EZContentManager, ACOM's web-based document management system, allows companies to centralize corporate files of any type in a single password-secured data repository, with browser-driven retrieval and distribution engines intended to provide fast and convenient searching and handling under metadata or full-text search. EZContentManager 3.3 is now shipping and is available without charge to customers under maintenance contract. Key enhancements include: multiple file upload from the file management screen, session management tools, extended file export and import capabilities, multiple process manager capabilities, and extended file status management.

(www.acom.com)

Olive Software, a provider of electronic publishing and digital archiving technologies, intends to introduce mobile content technology on iPhone and Blackberry handheld devices. Olive's mobile capabilities now provide publishers the opportunity to create new business models and an additional channel through which to deliver content to their subscribers. Users of mobile devices will be able to access the content of their favorite publications that use Olive Software to render their electronic editions. Content can be accessed either as text only or with full graphics, to accommodate user preferences and technical constraints such as bandwidth and screen resolution. Publishers can leverage Olive's advanced XML-based repository and article-level segmentation to repurpose articles for display on mobile devices.

(www.olivesoftware.com)

Ipedo, a global provider of enterprise information virtualization software, announced several major enhancements to its Ipedo XIP platform. In an attempt to provide fast access to distributed business information, Ipedo XIP 4.3 offers an incremental caching capability, new parameterized views for complex queries, and expanded support for MySQL Enterprise. The new enhancements are designed to increase both the performance and flexibility for large deployments, as well as accommodate the growing use of open source databases in the enterprise. Whether creating data services in an SOA, or new reports in business intelligence applications, customers can access combinations of business information using a templated approach.

(www.ipedo.com)

CommonTime, a result of the combination of IBM Lotus and Mobility, announced the beta release of mNotes5--secure, wireless Lotus Notes email for individuals. MNotes 5 attempts to bring information and communication to your fingertips, with enterprise strength security and device management features designed specifically for individual users. MNotes5 features include: over the air security, lost device disaster handling, Sametime IM, optional line of business application support, and support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices.

(www.commontime.com)

SkillSoft PLC, a provider of elearning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education, and small- to medium-sized businesses, announced that CGI Group Inc. has deployed its multi-modal learning solution, SkillChoice Complete, to all 30 business units globally. CGI achieved enterprise adoption of the SkillSoft solution by licensing a SkillSoft Program Manager to assume strategic responsibility of the program and serve as its central point of contact.

(www.skillsoft.com, www.cgi.com)