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Open-source online repository Sourceforge.net has accepted MPower, which provides software for nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM). MPower’s software helps nonprofits with fundraising and CRM. MPower said that nonprofits and their partners have easy access through Sourceforge to the software’s source code so they can develop additional features and create and share new functions for fundraising and related tasks.

Rich Internet application company Cynergy has relocated its Washington, D.C., headquarters to a new facility that is triple the size, near Farragut Square. Company executives said that relocation to a larger building was necessitated by Cynergy's growth in the RIA market.

New Products
Microsoft has released for download version 1 of the Open XML SDK, which is designed to help developers create client and server products that follow the Office 2007/Ecma Office Open XML formats. The first version of the SDK includes a set of APIs for Open XML Formats, Microsoft said.

The business process outsourcing (BPO) market is expected to reach US$450 billion by 2012, analyst firm NelsonHall said in a new report titled, “Global BPO Market Forecast: 2008-2012.” In its 243-page report, NelsonHall said that the current economic slowdown in the United States would lead to organizations using offshore outsourcing to reduce costs, as well as to advance opportunities globally.

AccuRev and Rally Software have integrated AccuRev’s software change and configuration management product with Rally’s agile life-cycle management product to have a platform that can manage multiple agile processes and improve requirements’ traceability, the companies said. The integration between the tools is called AccuBridge for Rally, and it is available in beta.

Zeligsoft, a software development product provider for the embedded computing industry, introduced a suite of products and services aimed at accelerating the development of software-defined radios, which are communication systems equipped with software components that allow quick reconfiguration of a radio’s characteristics. Zeligsoft’s SCA Core Framework lets users validate new deployments and monitor running applications from within the Zeligsoft tool set, the company said.

Updates
Application virtualization security provider Trustware has added a “privacy zone” feature that creates a list of trusted Web sites for confidential transactions to BufferZone Pro 3.0. The company said that trusted sites would always open within the privacy zone to prevent the theft of banking information and passwords. BufferZone Pro creates a barrier between Web browsing and the computer’s underlying operating system for security.



Related Search Term(s): Application life-cycle management, mobile development, OOXML, outsourcing, SCM, security, AccuRev, Cynergy, First Coverage, Microsoft, QArea Group, Rally, Sourceforge, Trustware, Zeligsoft

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