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We are proud to announce the launch of our first project with McAfee. We designed a Flash-based product demo with voiceover to market McAfee’s Secure Internet Gateway appliance. The Secure Internet Gateway provides small and medium-sized businesses a strong line of defense against web and email threats, including spam, phishing, viruses, and spyware.

Nice job, team!

The demo is live at: www.mcafee.com/us/smb/products/promos/sig/index.html

Extractable is pleased to annouce the launch of the Schwab MoneyWise web site! Kudos to the Extractable team for a solid inital project, resulting in site launch during Financial Literacy Month. The team is excited to continue enhancing the site with additional activities, tools, content, and a community forum! More information regarding the site’s charter can be found in the official Charles Schwab press release.

The site is live at: http://www.schwabmoneywise.com

Congrats to the Extractable team on the launch of the redesigned Merit Medical website.

The site is live at: http://www.merit.com

Safe Credit Union’s web site wins praise in Friday’s netbanker report. There, Jim Bruene compliments Safe Credit Union’s Clever Homepage Comparison tool, citing it as “one of the best rate comparison tactics we’ve ever seen.”

Kudos to the Extractable team who made the Safe CU rate comparison tool and web site come to life!

Congratulations to the Extractable team on the launch of the redesigned LBS Financial Credit Union website and another successful credit union project.

The site is live at http://www.lbsfcu.org

Congratulations to the everyone involved with the the launch of Extreme Networks’ redesigned corporate website. The site is live at www.extremenetworks.com.

Via the IxDA list I noticed this item on the Jensen Harris’ An Office User Interface Blog explaining how application developers can license and implement the new Microsoft Office 2007 interface, “including the Ribbon, galleries, [and] the Mini Toolbar.”

Here are more details on the licensing process and the place where you actually go to download a license.

There is one fairly reasonable exception:

There’s only one limitation: if you are building a program which directly competes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, or Access (the Microsoft applications with the new UI), you can’t obtain the royalty-free license.

Engadget posted a video showing a complete interface walkthrough for Zune, demonstrating its UI and wireless sharing feature (via Edwin Booth, who posted the link to the IxDA list, saying, “If you’ve used Windows Media Center, it’s very similar”).

Two launches in one week!

On Tuesday, we released HTC America’s redesigned web site. HTC is by far the leader in Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC wireless marketspace, owning an 80% share. HTC’s products are available worldwide, including through all the major US carriers (Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint).

We will continue to support and enhance HTC’s web presence as they continue their electric growth.

The redesigned HTC America web site is live at http://america.htc.com

Gmail works pretty well on mobile devices already, but Google just announced a Java client application for mobile (Official Google Blog: Gmail mobile client is live) that runs on hundreds of devices. I visited the download page on my phone and it automatically detected that I was connecting via an HTC 2125 and supplied me with the correct Java “midlet” for my device.

It seems to work great, once I turned off the itsy-bitsy text-size option, although I’m not sure I really need it, since - as I said - the regular Gmail website already adapts itself pretty well to my device. Cool wow factor, though.