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The upcoming Microsoft (news, site) Windows Phone 7, might look all consumer friendly, but enterprises want and expect more, especially when it comes to how mobile devices will handle SharePoint.

 Number crunchers Juniper (news, site) and other research firms estimate big numbers as Internet use switches from the desktop to the smartphone.

Betting that Google Wave would've fared better had it been released for business folk rather than consumers, an enterprise software company called Novell recently announced their own real-time collaboration mashup platform. Because it uses the Wave Federation Protocol, Novell Pulse is essentially Google Wave with a greater emphasis on security and management.

Spring just days away and even closer is the SXSW Interactive event in Austin -- stay tuned for some live coverage out of Texas.

And for now we're busy bidding farewell to the working week. But just before we do so, here's a big thanks to the current CMSWire sponsors (follow them on Twitter). It's you who have kept our wheels turning and the keyboards merrily clacking. We are thankful.

Current Sponsors

• Acquia -- Providers of enterprise support and hosting services for the Drupal CMS.
• Ademero -- Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
  
• Bridgeline iApps Content Manager -- A SaaS Framework for applications, content management, commerce and analytics.
• Bitrix CMS -- Full-featured content management and Enterprise 2.0 solutions for small and medium size businesses.
• CMS Watch -- The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• CoreMedia -- CoreMedia's enterprise-class web content management system enables organizations to manage customer engagement across a range of touch points.
• Day Sofware -- Winner of the 2009 Infoworld Best Web CMS award.
• Ektron -- Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management systems.
• EMC - Sophisticated document management systems for departments and mid-sized organizations.
• Ephox -- Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with an enterprise API.
• eTouch SamePage -- The enterprise-grade wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• eZ Systems -- Makers of the eZ Publish open source web content management system.
• Gilbane Group -- Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry talking, meeting and informed.
• JBoye Events -- High impact gatherings and reports for web practitioners. 
• Kapow Technolgoies -- Tools for automating content migration tasks.
• Open Text -- Realize the full power of SharePoint enterprise content management via Open Text integration.
• Percussion -- The Percussion CM System empowers enterprise marketers to create, manage and optimize content across multiple channels.
  
• SDL Tridion -- Enterprise web content management for multi-lingual and multi-national organizations.
• Sitecore -- Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Siteworx -- A full service interactive agency, Siteworx designs scalable systems for human interaction.
• Telerik Sitefinity -- A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
  
• TERMINALFOUR -- An enterprise class web content management and portal system targeted at medium to large organizations.
• …and of course dear old uncle Google

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pTools (news, site) gets a little bit social with the introduction of new social media and social networking capabilities including an easy way to update your favorite social networks.

SiteExecutive (news, site) packs in the foot-soldier friendly features with a new update to make things more accessible from the road.

Yammer (news, site) is attracting plenty of attention and new users. Now it has attracted further investment, as it picks up a fresh stock of capital.

With the release of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) getting closer, people are getting either a) excited, b) nervous or c) all of the above. Whatever your mindset, here are 5 changes coming with SharePoint 2010 which you should take note of.

Pat yourself on the back, we've nearly made through January. Yes, it's hard to believe. Yet it was a good month and the industry is warming up to what seems like a more ambitious year than the one before.

We'll have more content management fun next week. But now, just before we head for the door, here's a hearty thanks to the current CMSWire sponsors (follow them on Twitter). It's you who have kept our wheels turning and the keyboards merrily clacking. We are thankful.

Current Sponsors

• Acquia -- Providers of enterprise support and hosting services for the Drupal CMS.
• Ademero -- Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
  
• Bridgeline iApps Content Manager -- A SaaS Framework for applications, content management, commerce and analytics.
• Bitrix CMS -- Full-featured content management and Enterprise 2.0 solutions for small and medium size businesses.
• CMS Watch -- The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• Day Sofware -- Winner of the 2009 Infoworld Best Web CMS award.
• Ektron -- Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management systems.
• EMC - Sophisticated document management systems for departments and mid-sized organizations.
• Ephox -- Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with an enterprise API.
• eTouch SamePage -- The enterprise-grade wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• eZ Systems -- Makers of the eZ Publish open source web content management system.
• Gilbane Group -- Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry talking, meeting and informed.
• JBoye Events -- High impact gatherings and reports for web practitioners. 
• Kapow Technolgoies -- Tools for automating content migration tasks.
• Open Text -- Realize the full power of SharePoint enterprise content management via Open Text integration.
• Quest Software -- Smart systems management software for SharePoint.
• SDL Tridion -- Enterprise web content management for multi-lingual and multi-national organizations.
• Sitecore -- Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Siteworx -- A full service interactive agency, Siteworx designs scalable systems for human interaction.
• Telerik Sitefinity -- A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
  
• …and of course dear old uncle Google

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Many people may have spent their time wondering what will happen with Vignette now that Open Text acquired the company, but EntropySoft (news, site) doesn't seem to be one of them. Instead, they have spent their time working on an enterprise connector, making interoperability with Vignette that much easier.

Last year, Microsoft launched SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a service that provides customers of SharePoint Software Assurance extra tools to plan and implement SharePoint effectively in their organization.

SDPS includes tools such as:

• SharePoint Deployment Plan Templates
• Architecture Design Documents
• SharePoint server farm deployment guidance

Today, SDPS offers a new service: 2010 Upgrade Planning Offer. The offer includes 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15-day engagements with Microsoft certified partners to help you decide if you need to upgrade, why you should and how you should approach the upgrade process.

Along with a nice, in depth introduction to SharePoint 2010, you get personalized advisement on how your particular deployment will be upgraded, a look at the cost of upgrading (and the benefits) and your own customized migration plan.

Lots of good stuff there to seriously consider. You can think about it over the holidays, but come the new year, SharePoint 2010 will be looming ever closer and you will need to start thinking about how you will upgrade to the new and improved version.

Get all the details about the new offer here.

Not satisfied with scouring the dusty corners of the Internet to quench your search thirst, Google (news, site) goes up-to-the-second with Real Time Content.

Nstein (news, site) recently stepped up their relationship with evolve24, an analytics research firm in St. Louis. The collaboration gives evolve24 access to Nstein’s handy Sentiment Analysis module, allowing them to quickly determine an article’s overall tone for key insight into a company’s representation.  

"Reputations are built over time and are the response to actions taken by a corporation,” explained Scot Wheeler, Vice President of Strategy & Client Services for evolve24. “For example, reputation can be hurt by unaddressed negative responses to products and services, including poor customer support, regulatory or legislative issues, insensitive ad campaigns, or any perceived affront to an audience, while a new product announcement, a viral campaign or launch of user groups may create highly positive coverage in influential publications and blogs which will help build reputation.”

Wheeler estimates that one person at peak performance can detect the tone of 25 articles per hour. Nstien's technology will reportedly boost that number to tens of thousands of pieces of content per day and still require only one person to manually test and verify results. 

“We are thrilled that evolve24 continues to expand its relationship with Nstein”, said Nstein CTO Jean-Michel Texier, “This collaboration allow us to deepen our knowledge of marketing decision support systems and accelerate the reinforcement of our technological offering in opinion mining and automated brand monitoring.”

Want your reputation measured? Check out evolve24's site here. 

Voice over IP is an ever-growing feature for phones, and is now a lot easier to implement thanks to Global IP Solutions (news, site).

This week, newspapers employ a variety of strategies, from independent funding to niche topics to SEO to help them stay alive.  And Google acquires AdMob.