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TM Forum, a trade consortium focused on enabling digital services, announced the next part in its Content Encounter initiative, Content Encounter 3.

Open Text Corporation, a global provider of enterprise content management (ECM), announced initial product plans following the acquisition of Captaris, including the key role Captaris will play in extending Open Text ECM solutions that manage documents from SAP and Oracle ERP systems.

A settlement was reached on October 28 in the class-action lawsuit brought in 2005 by the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers against Google, and both sides seem to be pleased with the outcome. The Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers will help distribute a $45 million class-action payout to authors and publishers whose copyrights were infringed when their works were uploaded without permission by the digital Google Books project. Google, in turn, will spend $34.5 million to build a subscription-based system allowing users to preview, search, and ultimately purchase access to in-copyright, out-of-print titles through Google Books.

OECD has launched a new interactive tool for visualizing and analyzing regional statistics using maps and graphs.

RockYou, a creator and distributor of applications on the social web, announced an additional $17M in investments from Softbank, the leading shareholder of Yahoo! Japan, and SK Telecom Ventures, the venture capital arm of SK Telecom.

Orbius, a provider of social marketing solutions, announced the release of a community platform.

Hot Neuron LLC, an information retrieval software and services company, announced the release of version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, featuring automatic document categorization, and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets.