Fashion takes on social networking

New Look is using Oracle Universal Content Management as the platform for its iLook enterprise social network, enabling the international fashion retailer to collaborate worldwide, reports ebizQ.

The iLook workspace provides New Look colleagues with access to company intelligence including corporate news, company videos, a staff directory and policy information, along with an online calendar and a marketing toolkit held as a central, shared resource for all marketing materials.

According to the company, social networking capabilities support collaboration between virtual teams and groups over blogs, wikis and forums to help dispersed teams to easily connect and drive best practice through their communication within project and departmental portals, irrespective of time zones.

SeaChange International has conducted several trials of the MediaServer 1200 server platform and MediaController Tool for the distribution of 3D content, states Broadcast Engineering.

The company says the server platform works with broadcasters' existing workflows to enable the smooth deployment of 3D content management and play-out services.

SeaChange also brought it to Singapore's terrestrial broadcast TV station, MediaCorp, to capture Singapore's National Parade Day in live 3D.

Box.net took another step in its ongoing mobile strategy with the introduction of an Android application, says Fierce Content Management.

Box.net CEO Aaron Levie says the idea behind the Box strategy is to provide a way for users to access files from any device.

Users can access their content, whether on the Web from their PC, laptop, phone or tablet. Box.net has taken a foothold in the Android platform.