Message Systems, a company that offers message management platforms for carriers and ISPs, announced the launch of its first message management service that "combats the transmission of illegal and inappropriate images sent via email and wireless messaging." According to the company, the tool will use image recognition software developed by Image Analyzer to provide ISPs and mobile carriers with better knowledge about what's being transmitted over their networks.
Detecting illegal and illicit images has been difficult for ISPs and mobile carriers, Message Systems said in a statement. But with the help of Image Analyzer's technology, ISPs and carriers will have "real-time image analysis" at their disposal that will allow them to distinguish between inappropriate and appropriate content. The tool can be integrated directly into an ISP's or carrier's existing messaging system.
Quickoffice, a provider of mobile office software, announced Tuesday that it has released its first Microsoft Office viewer for Google's Android platform. Dubbed Quickoffice for Android, the app will allow T-Mobile G1 users to access, view, and manage their Word and Excel files. The software costs $7.99 and is available now.
Offerpal Media, a company that provides in-game offers and surveys to help developers monetize their online games, has secured a $15 million in a Series B round of funding that was led by D.E. Shaw Ventures, The New York Times is reporting. According to the company, it has over 2,000 advertisers in its system and adds 100 new offers each week. It plans to use the funding to expand its services to other developers.
Career search site, Indeed released a new feature Tuesday, called Industry Trends, which provides a visual look at job seeker trends in 12 major industries, including accounting, finance, and retail. The company found that the number of job listings has declined over the past year, but job-seeker traffic is up over the past 12 months.
Spreadsheet editing is made finger friendly with Quickoffice's Excel editing tool.
(Credit: Quickoffice)Despite the addition of Microsoft Exchange and the App Store with version 2.0 of the iPhone's firmware, the device is still a long way from competing with Windows Mobile handsets when it comes to the native editing of several popular file formats. Mobile-productivity software company Quickoffice is trying to change that with a new iPhone application that lets users edit their Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets.
Called MobileFiles Pro, this $9.99 application can pull in Excel workbooks from any of your computers (over Wi-Fi) or on the Web through MobileMe's iDisk sharing. It supports editing over multiple pages in a workbook, row and column resizing and insertion, and manages to do it all with a good deal of simplicity.
To edit a cell, you simply tap it with your thumb and type in a new value. There are also options to format what's inside it, run formulas, and add new pages.
The option to edit files joins the functionality to view other file types, including movies, music, images, Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and iWork documents (akin to Quickoffice's QuickAccess sister product). QuickOffice says it will continue to push out editing for other file formats, such as Microsoft Word, in future releases.
MobileFiles Pro joins a handful of other iPhone applications that let you view and edit Excel spreadsheets, including Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet LX, iSpreadsheet, and the upcoming Mariner Calc app which is due in a few weeks.
Here at the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco, Quickoffice, historically a mobile documents viewer for Nokia phones, is showing off demos for four new iPhone and iPod Touch apps aimed at Apple's contingent of MobileMe users.
The first, called MobileFiles, will let you view e-mail attachments, including Google and Box.net documents from your iPhone, something that iPhones don't currently allow. Quickoffice is expected to launch MobileFiles as a free, view-only app in November.
Following that, Quickoffice plans to release three more applications for reading and editing spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, respectively. Called Quicksheet, Quickpoint, and Quickword, the three editors will likely go for $10 apiece. On the performance end, Quicksheet and Quickword clearly displayed MobileMe attachments as multipage files and allowed users two ways to edit by tapping the screen. $30 seems like a hefty surcharge for the privilege of editing and saving all three document types back to the MobileMe account from the iPhone, especially when the viewing documents alone will be free. Not all users will need all three editors, but those who do should receive a markdown for purchasing the entire suite.
Unless a competitor steps up to challenge the pricing and app layout, by the time Quickoffice's premium applications launch in Q1, Quickoffice will have the market advantage. We haven't heard much from DataViz, the likeliest contender, about an iPhone play, though with the company fresh off releasing new versions of its flagship viewer, Documents To Go, for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and BlackBerry, iPhone is their next logical platform to conquer.
Quickaccess is a new software product for mobile phones from the folks at Quickoffice.
It's a streaming technology that will let you access and edit office documents on your phone without having to depend on native mobile versions of the desktop software. It'll simply take your work from wherever it's stored (either on your hard drive or in the cloud), re-render it and then compress it to stream over the Web at a fifth of its original size. All of this work is done on an array of servers, meaning any number crunching is going to be offloaded from your mobile device's puny processor for the sake of speed.
I was given a demo of the product in action back in April; it's got some nice features for road warriors. For one, it lets you grab files from multiple computers in one shared directory. You can search using a single index, and even edit a file at the same time as other people, even if it's something like an Excel spreadsheet--something typically reserved for services like Editgrid or eXpresso. The files can be worked on locally or as they're being streamed to your phone. You can also set permission on any shared file to be re-shared once more, which could be useful if you want to pass it along to a third party for editing.
The company is porting this access over to Google's Android platform. In the demo I saw, they were working on a Google spreadsheet with the changes being pushed back live in a page we were viewing in a regular Web browser. This is something you can't currently do on mobile phones, but this early version was able to do it. Compatibility with documents is expected to come later on.
Quickaccess lets you edit your documents from home computers and folders in the cloud in a standard directory or in this visual interface which gives you a preview of each document.
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