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As presentations move from the desktop and office whiteboard to the online space, Zoho is ready to challenge PowerPoint, SlideRocket and others with its new, redesigned, view-anywhere Zoho Show.

 That's a hypothetical question, unless you're in Switzerland, but he makes an interesting point. Would presentations be more interesting if the speaker didn't get to rely on whizzy graphics and effects of PowerPoint?

As companies grow and mobile workforces expand, opportunities for training and professional development can be challenging to coordinate and provide, not to mention tedious. Thanks to Knoodle, learning activities can be both accessible and social.

It’s no secret that people hate PowerPoint presentations. You might even say that we love to hate PowerPoint. But new data from SlideRocket suggests that we loathe PowerPoint so much we’d consider giving up things we enjoy or do more of the things we hate, just to make the boring, unimaginative slides stop.

VMWare is big in a backroom service kind of way, while SlideRocket (news, site) helps those pesky end users do slick-and-groovy presentations, so why would the two get together?

Gone are the days when a bunch of guys in suits piled into a conference room to listen to a business presentation on budgets or advertising metrics. Thanks to mobile technology, that conference room is a computer screen or a mobile device that allows us to be anywhere, everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

SlideRocket (news, site) brings a range of professionally designed slides to users of its web-based presentation tool.

As 4G networks from Verizon (news, site) roll out in major metropolises, getting access to -- and marketing your data as -- on-the-go is now a realistic possibility.

The gradual slide from desktop to phone or tablet continues with SlideRocket's new portable presentation player for Apple's gadgets.

Online presentations can benefit from some extra jazz, thanks to productivity outfit Zoho's (news, site) update to its Show product.

The SlideShare (news, site) service offers a cross between PowerPoint and YouTube. Now, it adds branded channels, giving companies, government and other agencies the chance to put their message across for the social Web to grab hold of.

The information-centric applications provider Mark Logic (news, site)  has just announced its latest step in extending the functionality of Microsoft Office 2007 with the release of Toolkit for PowerPoint.

It follows the release earlier this year of Toolkit for Word and Toolkit for Excel, as well as a connector for SharePoint, which integrated much of the functionality of Microsoft Office 2007 with the Mark Logic Server, an XML server that enables users to manage large amount of content with access to that content provided by XQuery.

Ah, numbers. The universal language. 500 million is an awful lot no matter where you go or what’s in question; hence, we think it’s safe to say that an awful lot of people use Microsoft Office—with totally appropriate italics for emphasis and everything.

The ol' suite is most certainly a seasoned player, which, so far, has proved its ability to keep up with the changing times. Lucky for Microsoft, especially considering how much the way in which we work has changed since the 2007. As Microsoft gears up for the Office 2010 release, we wonder, will it be another hit, or will half a billion people be disappointed? Let’s take a look at the breadcrumbs they’ve dropped so far.

Open Text -- who's web content management strategy has been in the news lately -- also has a busy, busy enterprise content management arm, in case we needed reminding.

Recently the company was acknowledged by SAP via a Certified Integrations award. The nod is meant to give customers the confidence to use SAP's applications in tadem with the Open Text ECM Suite as the basis for enterprise-wide information lifecycle management.

You know MindTouch (news, site) for its enterprise class wiki and collaboration portal. They consistently bring out new solutions to help you collaborate faster and smarter in the MindTouch environment. Now the open source collaboration vendor brings you a new suite of productivity tools for your desktop.