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At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today in Boston, collaborative social software provider Socialtext announces Socialtext Free 50 to entice companies on the fence to integrate enterprise social networking into their organizations. This new freemium model offers online collaboration tools such as micro-blogging, social networking, personalized home pages, and a wiki workspace.
 
“Many of our customers take a practical approach of workgroup use, before widespread transformative deployments,” said Eugene Lee, CEO of Socialtext. “These new offerings enable more businesses to discover a new way of working without barriers and decide when to engage with us to grow revenue, strengthen customer relationships and adapt to change. Socialtext continues to exercise its Enterprise 2.0 leadership with a ‘freemium’ SaaS business model, while expanding the power of its social software platform.”
 
Features reserved for premium accounts that you won’t see in Socialtext Free 50 include multiple wiki workspaces, technical support, the ability to deploy Socialtext behind company firewalls, access to the SocialCalc collaborative spreadsheet, and obviously the ability to allow more than 50 users to access your company’s Socialtext account.

Today Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. publicly announce a partnership to “define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services.”

While details are still in the works the two companies have said the new devices “will marry the best features and capabilities of the computing and communications worlds and will transform the user experience, bringing incredible mobile applications and always on, always connected wireless Internet access in a user-friendly pocketable form factor.”

The plans are to include open source mobile Linux projects along with an Intel acquisition of Nokia’s HSPA/3G modem IP license.

Source: Sacramento Business Journal