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Open Text kicked off its global Content World conference today on Orlando, Florida. The ECM giant expects it to be the largest conference in history with more than 1500 participants registered to attend.

Pre- and post-conference workshops, breakouts, training, GlobalStar awards, partner schmoozing, showcasing its ECM solutions, Universal Studios trips… Open Text is going to be busy in the next few days.

The event features a conference-within-a-conference program. Attendees tailor their conference experience: product/technology-specific tracks are available in the morning, with broader enterprise views offered in the afternoon.

One of the coolest things about this event, aside from all the wealth of OT and Enterprise CMS knowledge, is that there’s no printed conference brochure. Open Text went green and provided all attendees with wireless PDA-like devices instead of a paper booklet. Delegates can use the device for polling, conference program navigation, attendee profiles search and text messaging.

Conferences are usually coupled with major announcements. Today, Open Text announced that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) under the name the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text. As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text’s document capture solution Invoice Capture Center, from Open Text’s recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice Management.

Open Text clearly shoots for being the ultimate ECM provider, and is here to prove it with all the recent product releases, acquisitions and partnerships. We’ll hear more from Open Text in the next few days, stay tuned! In the meantime, watch daily podcasts on YouTube and follow #OTContentWorld on Twitter.

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Open Text Content World is Big, Social and Green

SlyDial, the telephone service that lets you dial directly to someone’s voice mail, has launched three new mobile applications for users on Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. The new apps have direct access to your phone’s contact list so you can begin a SlyDial call without having to first phone in to the service then remember your contact’s number.

All three are free, and with the exception of the iPhone app–which is pending Apple’s approval, are available right now. The iPhone version is also the only one of the three that does not require you to be a registered SlyDial user to make calls.

Since we covered SlyDial’s official launch back in July, it’s added a handy feature that lets you assign numerical shortcuts to contacts you think you’re going to call frequently. This lets you call them by dialing in the first four letters of their name (or nickname) followed by the # key.

Below is a demo of how this works on the Blackberry–effectively giving you the option to SlyDial from anywhere via contextual menu:

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SlyDial launches mobile apps for easy weasel calls

GigaTribe, a Web 2.0 file-sharing service, announced Monday that it has launched its product to the U.S. market. The company’s software will allow users to share photos, videos, music, and documents with other users over a private peer-to-peer network.

At its core, GigaTribe is much like other file-sharing sites on the Web that are being monitored by the RIAA and MPAA, but it creates a private network to keep them out. The service allows users to share any file for free and create a group that can send files back and forth.

Due to the inherent security risk that goes along with its business model, GigaTribe’s executives pointed out that the company does its best to keep files secure. To do that, it allows users to assign friends into groups and allow them access to certain files. The company also encrypts all files to add an extra layer of security.

“Security is our top priority,” Alexis Leseigneur, GigaTribe’s CTO said in a statement. “When it comes to sharing your personal photos and videos, you need to be absolutely sure they will only be available to the appropriate contacts.”

Although GigaTribe tries to make its free application sound compelling, it’s the $29.95-per-year “Ultimate” product that packs most of the benefits. Aside from faster downloading and multidownloading capability, the Ultimate service provides remote access to the files, password protection on all files, and most importantly, group access management.

According to the company, the free version allows anyone to view files, while the Ultimate version gives users the ability to decide which groups can access certain files.

GigaTribe’s service is available now on the company’s site.

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GigaTribe brings private P2P sharing to U.S.

The New York Times' new reader uses AIR capabilities to flow text and show video.

(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CNET)

San Francisco — During the keynote of the Adobe Max conference, New York Times VP of R&D Michael Zimblast demo’d a new newsreader app from the company. Based on AIR 1.5, which Adobe is being released today, the newsreader was shown displaying International Herald Tribune content, but it’s pretty clear that the company will release a reader for the New York Times as well. The IHT reader will come out in Fall, Zimblast said.

There is already a desktop reader for the Times, of course, but it’s a fairly heavy app. The new AIR version will take advantage of some of the new features built in to the new AIR runtime, including a fast text rendering engine that re-flows text as you re-size the screen.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lunch shows the NYT app on the Linux-based Aigo handheld.

(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CNET)

The new app also uses the video capabilities of Flash 10, which Air 1.5 uses. The demo showed videos in ads, but it could also be used for editorial content.

Of course, there’s also a nice crossword app built into it. It’s not social, though. Maybe next version?

After Zimblast left the stage, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demo’d the app running on a “mid” size Linux computer, the Aigo. Adobe’s AIR 1.5 is being released for Linux and will have the same video and text rendering capabilites of the Windows and OSX versions.

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New York Times launching AIR-based news reader

Good news for Firefox users who have lusted over Chrome and Safari’s option that lets you “tear” away tabs from an open window. The latest build of 3.1 offers it as a standard feature–and it works marvelously.

As in Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers you simply pull away a tab from the interface and it turns into its own window. Likewise you can drag it back into an already opened window, just like you’d do to re-order your existing tabs.

While not a ground-breaking feature, tab tearing is a large step forward in changing the way we interact with our browsers. It’s a cross between the idea of having multiple tabs and multiple windows, but does not relegate the user to being pigeonholed in either one permanently.

If you’re feeling brave you can download the latest development build of 3.1 here. As mentioned before, this also comes with some nice JavaScript speed improvements and a new look for Windows Vista users.

Below is a quick demo of how the new tear-away feature works, both with dragging tabs and choosing to open them via contextual menu.

(via MozillaLinks)

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Tab tearing live in latest Firefox test build