Sidekick Sync … T-Mobile added integration between the Sidekick LX and Exchange Server. “According to T-Mobile, Sidekick Sync will support real-time push e-mail, the viewing of attachments, full sync capabilities, and feature full read and respond functionality, as well as the ability to configure sync schedules. The syncing capabilities will extend beyond e-mail and include contacts from corporate directories, as well Microsoft Exchange calendar events.” More

eXpresso Single Sign-On … eXpresso Corp will be showing user identity federation between its hosted services and other on-premise and hosted services. “eXpresso Corp, an award-winning SaaS provider of real-time document collaboration for Microsoft(R) Office, will demonstrate its interoperability with leading enterprise and cloud-based identity providers and federation protocols at the Cloud SSO Interoperability event hosted by Burton Group. The event will take place in San Diego, CA on July 29th and aims to illustrate how identity federation standards such as SAML, OpenID and WS-Federation are being leveraged to secure access to cloud-based applications like eXpresso.” More

Socialcast Message Broadcast … Socialcast added Message Broadcasting features into its enterprise microblogging tool. “Prior to Socialcast’s release of this feature, all enterprise microblogging tools gave equal importance to every message inside the network. While good for facilitating conversations and flattening the organizational hierarchy, industry tools lacked the ability to create significance around messages that needed immediate attention. Socialcast’s Broadcast Message was built to respect organizations’ management tiers while still providing an environment of collaboration and informational exchange while limiting email volume. Once a Broadcast Message goes out, collaboration happens around the discussion point within the Socialcast stream, rather than on corporate email.” More

Email 3.0 … Elie talks about some of the advances coming in “Email 3.0”. “Get ready for Email 3.0, a one-inbox mix of social media, instant messaging, text messaging, news feeds, widgets and other mash-ups all swirled together creating a better organizational environment for the user …. These new advances in email technology are long overdue and surely welcome among consumers and business alike. These technologies will help to lift the overall email experience by providing a true integration of social media and other technologies. In addition, email marketing efforts that are slapdash and executed in haste will be rendered completely useless, as traditional challenges come to the forefront of the discipline, demanding greater respect from marketers.” More

Skype with Desktop Sharing … The latest Mac and Windows edition of Skype added desktop sharing options. “Skype makes sharing a desktop remotely as simple as pushing a button in the call window. In just a few seconds, the host’s desktop pops up in a window on the remote user’s screen. This window is resizable, up to the resolution of the host’s screen. Resizing the window is done with crisp resolution, no matter what size is used. The shared desktop is updated in real time, which Skype does with almost no lag at all. The remote user can follow the cursor of the host on the screen, and see exactly what he or she is doing at any given moment. This is true collaboration; it is just like looking over the host’s shoulder to see what he or she is doing.” More

Postbox 14 … Beta 14 of Postbox, a new email client, added calendaring capabilities, along with a slew of new capabilities. “Postbox now natively supports Gmail-style conversation threading and e-mail message counts. So if you’ve got a collapsed thread, where you can only see one message, there will now be a number next to it telling you how many unread messages are in the thread. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the first message, even if it had already been marked as read, it automatically marked all the unread messages in the thread as read, too. There’s a new Contacts sidebar, although the old Address Book is still available by hitting CTRL+2 or going through the Tools menu. The new Web services option, also available from the Tools menu or the Advanced Settings tab under Options, gives you more granular control over which Web services you’re logged into through Postbox. This is useful if Postbox isn’t your main Twitter manager, so you can keep your API count from exploding and preventing tweet updates.” More

Metalogix Archiving Express for SharePoint … Metalogix released an Express edition of its archiving product for SharePoint for free. “Metalogix Archiving Express for SharePoint is a full-featured, fourth-generation archiving solution available free of charge. The free tool automates enforcement of retention policies for all SharePoint content. By reducing the SharePoint production database, it also improves system performance while giving online access to archived documents directly from within the SharePoint application. With features to automate disaster recovery and shorten backup times dramatically for the SharePoint environment, Metalogix Archiving Express for SharePoint also provides search, retention and disposition capabilities to help companies execute internal policies and meet Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) requirements.” More

Rosebud … Rosebud PLM offers Rosebud, a new multi-person collaborative editing and markup tool. “Rosebud’s patented technology is a software tool for PDF document distribution, presentation and markup that plugs into Adobe Acrobat to provide a real-time collaboration service. Rosebud* doesn’t depend on invasive screen-sharing like WebEx, GoToMeeting and Adobe Connect. So you can say goodbye to distorted images, fuzzy text and wrong color.” More

Other Items
– IBM acquired SPSS for $1.2 billion.
– Cemphore was purchased by Sparxent.