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Microsoft Acquires Tellme Networks March 15, 2007

Posted by Pavithra in Microsoft, Mobile, Tech Deals, Technology Companies.
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Microsoft has acquired technology firm TellMe.The purchase gives Microsoft access to various specialty areas that TellMe focuses on, including speech recognition and mobile search technologies.Microsoft and Tellme share a vision around the potential of speech as a way to enable access to information, locate other people and enhance business processes, any time and from any device. Combining Tellme’s talented people and expertise in high-volume voice services with Microsoft’s platform, resources and worldwide customer reach will inspire new and innovative solutions.

Tellme is a leader in voice services for the phone, including its popular mobile search services on 1-800-555-TELL.TellMe also provides enterprise solutions, such as the voice portals it operates for FedEx, American Express and others.

“We’re big believers in speech as the natural interface that is going to open up computing and the potential of computing to literally billions of people,” Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes said.

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Showcase : SANIsoft Technologies March 15, 2007

Posted by srinix in AJAX, FLOSS, General, India 2.0, Linux/FOSS, MySQL, Open Source, PHP, Start-ups, WebSTorm, web 2.0.
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Rare are the companies who contribute, get recognized and grow as a trusted brand.

SANIsoft Technologies is one of those rare identities.

Think of the word “SANI” and all coffee-fueled coders will think of the man who is well-known and respected in accelerating and contributing to PHP, Dr.Tarique Sani.

SANIsoft Technologies specializes in developing large, mission-critical e-biz applications which includes a big clientele. Knowingly or unknowingly you must have used either of these or atleast heard of these Open Source projects

* Coppermine Gallery

*  CheeseCake PhotoBlog * WAPpop   

 *   PHPZipLocator  

Yes, all these are the babies of SANIsoft Technologies.

People Behind it: 

 Dr.Tarique Sani: Needs no introduction!!! Still you are curious enough read it here

Swati Sani: She spearheads the business development and administration at SANIsoft.

Concept:

Adopting Open Source business model helps in many aspects of business but above all personal satisfaction of being part of a much better world.  

The logic behind SANIsoft seems pretty simple. Contribute, Collaborate and grow. 

We are bringing an Exclusive interview with Dr.Tarique Sani, he will be discussing about Open Source business model, guiding start-ups, and ofcourse about CopperMine Gallery!!!!  

Stay Tuned for some real action

OJAX:Ajax-powered metasearch service March 15, 2007

Posted by Pavithra in AJAX, OJAX, Search Engines, Widgets, web 2.0.
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OJAX is the new open-source federated search tool.It provides a highly dynamic AJAX based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata.

OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful. It attempts to minimise upfront user investment and provide immediate dynamic feedback, thus encouraging experimentation and enabling enactive learning.

Benefits of OJAX

  • Provide a single search interface across all the repositories in use in an institution or consortium.
  • Or provide an improved search interface to a single repository
  • Faster resource discovery.
  • Easy to use, and support.

Features of OJAX

  • Auto-completion of search terms
  • Triggering of auto-searches
  • Dynamically scrollable search results - no more navigating between pages
  • Auto-expansion of search result details
  • Rapid sorting of results
  • Integrated with the Firefox 2 / IE 7 search feature
  • Supports OpenSearch Discovery
  • Stored searches as Atom feeds
  • Includes an OAI-PMH harvester
  • Easy to install in your own institution

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Installation 

OJAX can be installed as a Web Application in any J2EE compliant servlet engine.

Packages Available

  1. OJAX GUI, Web Services & Harvester
  2. OJAX GUI, Web Services, Harvester & example repository index

People behind it

  • Dr. Judith Wusteman
  • Pádraig O’hIceadha

This software was developed by UCD School of Information and Library Studies, Dublin, Ireland, with collaboration from Industry.It leverages open source solutions funded by Sabre Holdings.

Disappointing Feature

The only disappointing feature of OJAX version0.7 is, auto-expansion of individual fields works in Firefox but does not work in versions of Internet Explorer before 7.0 because of limitations in earlier versions of IE.