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In the mornin' fog,
the evening breeze,
the cool, cool night...

(Soundtrack for this weekly review: John Lee Hooker, Frisco Blues)

Greetings from San Francisco, where there's barely any content management rush (or any rush, for that matter), but the fog, the breeze and the air filled with the freedom-loving spirit of start-ups. Lean agility is something that the big ECM kahunas could learn from start-ups.

Is that an agile move to buy something that creates an even bigger overlap in the already simmering soup of information governance technologies? Yes, I am talking about Autonomy's decision to buy CA Records Manager and CA Message Manager that transpired earlier this week.

The importance of GRC in this day and age is quite clear. What is not clear is why Autonomy would want to "IDOL-ize" this records management and archiving bundle if they already have products for that job (including from previous acquisitions like Interwoven)? "IDOL-ization" is like a rite of passage that most companies acquired by Autonomy go through after they're integrated with the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform.

In other news, Oracle released the long-awaited ECM 11g. The biggest sales pitch? Unified content repository and "extreme" scalability. But not everyone is wooed. Some are wondering whether Oracle knows that "WCM & ECM are actually different things." Even some industry analysts are finding it difficult to decipher the actual capabilities and intentions of this monster truck of ECM.

Editor's Picks

• Autonomy Adds More eDiscovery Capabilities via Governance Acquisition. No surprise then that Autonomy has announced it is buying CA’s information governance business, including CA Records Manager and CA Message Manager.
• Oracle ECM Suite 11g: One Repository, Web Content Management for Web Apps. In what Oracle is describing as a “strategic release”, the company says that the thinking behind it is ‘taking content management' where you work’.
• Report: Ranking of Content Management Systems for Global and Multilingual Scenarios. An analyst firm recently released their rankings of 16 content management systems attempting to answer the following question: “Which CMS delivers the best support for multilingual and multiregional use?”
  
• WEM Components: Tools for Social Engagement and Communities. Once you have your social engagement strategy, you need your tools. The complexities of your communities make choosing the right tools tricky. Here's what you need to know.
• Privacy: Is Google's Opt Out Solution Just Insane? What it comes down to is Google has chosen to offer what some call a "nuclear" option instead of promoting something less assertive.
• Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 Fully CMIS Compliant, Demonstrates Drupal Integration. With the latest release, Alfresco jumped headlong into integration that allows for a much more flexible document infrastructure.
• IBM Shows iPad Some Enterprise Love with Lotus Notes Traveler. IBM shows it can keep up with the Enterprise 2.0 in-crowd, launching Lotus Notes Traveler — a new iPad software app squarely targeted at mobile enterprise collaborators.

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Featured Events:

• Oct 7, 2010 -- HartmanEVENT 2010 - Social Media & Mobile Usability

Apple's (news, site) latest iPhone 4.0 release offers more to get it into the enterprise users' hands including multitasking and video conferencing. But is that good enough?

This week the mobile enterprise features security for iPhones, an increase in business revenue for the iPhone and financial issues for the mobile web.

While document management, and more generally enterprise content management, have made strides in the past year, many companies are still fighting to management their content. Oracle has improved its document management capabilities by upgrading Documaker for insurance.

Google seems on board with the wisdom of the crowd and perhaps a little innovation management. And now they share the ability to do both with you by making available an API for their Google Moderator.

This week the mobile enterprise offers benefits, increase reports of mobile commerce and worldwide sales of smartphones.

Microsoft vs IBM; Atari vs Commodore; Firefox vs Internet Explorer -- the biggest battles in computing pale into insignificance compared to the spat between Apple (news, site) and Adobe over Flash.

Millions of people across the globe are celebrating (or at least paying some degree of attention) as Microsoft rolls out the red carpet for the official launch of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) and Office 2010. There are a lot of changes in this latest version, much related to an improved user experience, some of it related to improved collaboration and business processes. 

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Facebook Staffs Up, Adds Former FTC Chairman
• A Look at Microsoft Spindex
• Online Generation Learns When Not to Post Online
• Twitter Isn't All That Social After All

Android-powered smartphones kicked Apple’s iPhone to the curb in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report from market researcher The NPD Group.

Well, the iPhone isn't a fan of Flash but the Android sure is. Skyfire (news, site) launched its first Flash-enabled mobile Web browser last week.  

Well, that didn’t take long: Just days after its acquisition of Palm, Hewlett-Packard (news, site) is reportedly set to drop the HP Slate, a handheld device that runs on Windows 7.

At the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando yesterday, RIM execs gave attendees a video preview of the company’s new BlackBerry (news, site) 6 operating system for its next-gen handsets.

This week in the mobile enterprise, the iPad gets cool video conference solutions, mobile information workers invade and it's all about security, not the device.

Norwegian firm Global IP Solutions brings video conferencing to Android devices with VideoEngine Mobile.