San Diego, CA - Monday 20 May 2013 - GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are collaborating to…

Reflecting on our open source roots as well as our broad definition of a CMS, we thought we would mention that Moodle 2.5 was released last week. This is the first release under their new May/November release schedule and the Moodle community has managed to address 705 issues through code contributions from 112 developers. Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites that we like to call a learning content management system (LCMS or LMS). Moodle 2.5 includes three significant features.

"The last thing you want your IT department to be is a joke because you waited too long to make changes. The easiest thing in the world to do is to play it safe, but it's probably not the best strategy for your professional development or the bottom line of your organization. You have to push new technologies that are going to propel your company forward or you risk being the IT equivalent of a company that waited too long to move to the next generation of technology."

- Ron Miller, "What your IT department could learn from Sony's disruption", CITEworld, May 17, 2013.

LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 helps Halfords provide robust user experience and on-demand access to information

LANDesk Software, a global leader in PC lifecycle management, endpoint protection and IT service management, today announced that Halfords is now using LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 and LANDesk Patch Manager to manage its IT Support Center environment, which includes over 720 devices across two offices. As the UK’s largest retailer of car maintenance, cycling and touring products, Halfords requires a powerful IT environment to keep all systems updated and running at all times.

MDS today announced the launch of MDS Accelerate, the newest version of its integrated revenue and customer management platform. MDS Accelerate delivers flexibility for Service Providers to bring new services and business models to market quickly and effectively

At the 2013 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference I have the privilege of moderating a panel focused on the Cloud. That's actually a broad topic, but I think it's a topic that is increasingly becoming well understood by the CMS community. Last year, I moderated a similar panel and, in my opinion, we spent way too much time trying to define the Cloud. This year, I'm hoping we're past the "what is it" phase and spend much more time talking about real problems, real benefits, and the challenges the content management industry may be facing by moving toward a Cloud solution.

dotCMS, an open source, Java-based content management system, is proud to announce the release of v2.3 – which continues to add features that address real world challenges faced by content managers, web developers and java developers in the modern enterprise.

Critical Media, whose Critical Mention real-time broadcast intelligence platform is used by more than 1,500 clients including nine of the world's top 10 brands, today announced the addition of Sky News to its rapidly expanding UK broadcast content selection.

"So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a "Facebook friend," but I can tell you…

Thanks to numerous optimizations and improvements, ProcessWire 2.3 is our fastest, smartest and most capable version yet. In version 2.3 of ProcessWire, major upgrades have been made throughout the entire system. If you are using an older version of ProcessWire, now is a good time to upgrade to ProcessWire 2.3. Below the fold is a partial list of what's been added and changed.

I've been pitching one of Canada’s largest and most interesting brands for about 5 years now. It’s…

Qumu, a leading business video platform provider, today announced the results of its April 2013 Enterprise Portals Usage Survey, which looked at the topic of employee video collaboration – how they use it today, how they want to use it, and barriers to action.

A few days ago, the Joomla Project introduced a new version of their content management system, Joomla! 3.1. As usual with these updates, Joomla 3.1 introduces a number of changes and bug fixes. While better late than never, the most significant new feature in this release is dynamic tagging across content-types.

Petr Palas, founder and CEO of Kentico software, lets his voice be heard to in this week's CEO Corner. In this article, he provides rebuttal to an earlier CEO Corner written by Agility's Michael Assad. Where Assad favors a "best of breed" approach and questions the validity of CXM, Palas believe the future is in fully integrated CXM solutions. Which CEO is right? We'll let you decide...

In February 2013, Neustar, a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information and analysis, surveyed 704 IT professionals across North America and Europe to understand how companies are managing the crisis around DDoS attacks and measuring the impact on their businesses.

Perforce Software today announced the winners of its inaugural Versionary Awards for customer innovation. Elite organizations were recognized for their excellence in applying Perforce software to challenging collaboration and development requirements—such a continuous delivery and third-generation globalization. Winners in 10 categories will be recognized today at Merge 2013, the Perforce conference, held this year in San Francisco, April 23 - 26.

(ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest not-for-profit information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®; and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, today announced they have signed an agreement to collaborate on a new professional  certification for information security. The combined initiative will address a significant concern over the security of modern business systems by establishing a common global understanding of professional knowledge and best practices in the design, implementation and management of cloud computing systems.    

Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today announced the availability of RAD Studio XE4, the app development suite for developers who need to create true native apps for PCs, tablets, and smartphones and get them to market fast. Built for developers by developers, RAD Studio XE4 lets users manage one codebase, one team and one schedule without sacrificing performance.

 Enterprise cloud synchronization provider TeamDrive has launched a new 3.1 version of its "Sync & Share" application, which delivers the first true enterprise-grade notification and enhanced support for VDI.

On my to-do list for quite some time has been wanting to talk briefly about some of the new features included in the latest release of Agility CMS. You may recall that CMS Report migrated over to Agility's Magazine Publishing Suite last Fall. So, keeping up to date on new features added to Agility CMS is not only a news story but also something of personal interest to me.