Open Text suports iPad

Open Text has made its collaborative tools Social Workplace and eDOCS edition 5.3 available for legal firms on the Apple iPad, reports IT World Canada.

Legal customers have traditionally focused a records management strategy on physical records only, but that perspective has had to expand and change in the past few years to encompass a broader range of content, according to Todd Partridge, GM of eDOCS and legal solutions with OpenText.

Support for the iPad follows existing support for the BlackBerry and iPhone, says Partridge. “These attorneys are demanding access to their documents on their mobile devices.”

Research In Motion (RIM) has acquired US-based Cellmania, which delivers back-end infrastructure for application stores, states The Economic Times.

Cellmania has the world's largest repository of mobile content and delivers content in the form of ring tones, java content, browseable content and video files.

Cellmania says its team “has joined RIM's global organisation and will continue to bring our expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform".

Apple reveals that iTunes U, its catalogue of educational files on iTunes, has topped 300 million downloads following a flurry of new content, says Venture Beat.

Universities MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford use iTunes U to make their course content freely available to the public.

Content from iTunes U can be viewed on Mac and PC computers, as well as on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Many schools choose to adopt iTunes U because it allows them to offer content through an interface students already know, and it means they don't have to rely on an internal content management system as much.