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Sony has unveiled the second generation of its Optical Disc Archive System, which adopts a new, high-capacity optical media developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic.  This newest media, rated with a 100-year shelf life, doubles the capacity of a single cartridge to 3.3 TB.

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

Beezy Inc., a developer of enterprise collaboration solution for SharePoint and Office 365, has announced the availability of new capabilities through integration with Microsoft's Office Graph.

DocsCorp has extended the reach of its contentCrawler data discovery platform to Microsoft SharePoint Online, and the solution is now available from the Azure Marketplace.

Salience for Android is claimed to be the first native text analytics package for a mobile operating system. Developer Lexalytics says it can be used by application developers to offer mobile users sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) and analytics to any app that uses text: email, SMS and chat, reviews, comparison shopping, social media, travel, hospitality and more.

Basware, a provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions, has acquired Verian, a cloud-based solution provider in the US purchase-to-pay market.

Oxygen Forensics has released Forensic Detective 8.3, which expands data extraction features and adds new acquisition methods.

Office Information Australia (OIA), a provider of information management solutions and services in the Asia Pacific region, has launched the OIA iManage Cloud for enterprise content management.

Ricoh Australia has introduced Microsoft Azure to its IT services offerings and the company recently joined the Microsoft Partner Network.

Ediscovery software provider X1 has launched X1 Distributed Discovery, claimed to provide a simple yet powerful and scalable platform for organisations to search and assess unstructured information across their organization within minutes.

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