TimeDriver (DEMO 08), the free, self-service appointment scheduler targeted at sales and service professionals, will open its beta to the public Aug. 25. While TimeDriver can be used to set up ad hoc meetings, it is designed as a systematic way to bring a flow of appointments into Google and Microsoft Outlook calendars.

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Zoho, a product group of AdventNet Inc. (DEMO 07), today enables sharing productivity applications in a new Zoho
Share utility, which creates embeddable viewers for documents, spreadsheets, PDF files, and slide shows. Users can rate, flag, and comment on any type of document.

The utility can be used by businesses or individuals, and so far Zoho Share has no space limitations. Users can
keep files private.

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Led by a team of experts in analytics and enterprise data management from the commercial and academic worlds, Truviso of Foster City, CA evolved its core technology from research conducted by Michael Franklin, PhD., a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Movial Social Communicator, CellSpin, and Skyfire are among 10 companies receiving FierceMobileContent's third annual "top mobile applications" awards that this year showcases smartphone innovations. All three launched at DEMO 08.

FierceMobileContent stated that this year's awards herald "a new wave of practical, prosumer-oriented mobile services and tools that simplify and improve the day-to-day lives of a consumer segment in perpetual motion."

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Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today announced its Aug. 4 acquisition of privately-held InStranet of Chicago, the market leading "knowledge management software" for business-to-consumer call centers, for $31.5 million. The acquisition includes the assumption of InStranet's $4.2 million in cash, bringing the actual price down to $27.3 million, but still makes the acquisition Salesforce.com's largest.

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SailPoint Technologies, Inc. (DEMO 07), which sells identity risk management software to businesses, today secured $6.5 million in a third-round of venture capital funding from existing investors to support growth in Europe and the U.S. The investors are Austin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Origin Partners, and Silverton Partners.

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If politics is your game, Vringo, Inc. (DEMO 07) today offers a new way to sound off about your party loyalty - 30-second video ringtones for your mobile phone of the two U.S. presidential candidates.

Just in time for the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Vringo has posted video ringtones of Sen. Barak Obama and Sen. John McCain available free worldwide as part of its new channel service, which automatically sends a fresh ringtone to subscribers' mobile phones daily or weekly.

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In recent weeks, I’ve offered advice on preparing for a product launch, and perhaps today’s installment should have come first. Then again, you’d be surprised how many young companies plan a launch event without fully setting objectives for the outcome.

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Blogging is getting social and social networking is fragmenting. Both changes could make online more appealing to advertisers because the change will likely mean niched sites attracting more visitors to specific content, which results in more qualified audiences - exactly what businesses want.

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Internet telephony company JAJAH, Inc. (DEMOfall 06) of Mountain View, CA today introduced an application that uses Intel Corp.'s new "remote wake" technology to turn on Windows-based computers to make and accept online calls. Intel said its four new motherboards with "remote wake" chips will be available in September.

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