RIM to offer Lotus Connections on BlackBerry
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion   plans to offer IBM's  Lotus Connections  business networking software as a free download later this  year, the company said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday will unveil a new version of its top-end e-mail phone for business users, replacing the signature side navigation wheel with a front trackball that first appeared last year on the consumer-oriented BlackBerry Pearl.
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InfoWorld - IBM&#160;on Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.
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Siemens technology to be built into IBM's Lotus Sametime software to enable integrated telephony and presence features.
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Second-gen 8800 to get WLAN tech? The BlackBerry range has taken a step closer towards bringing Wi-Fi on board following claims that Research in Motion (RIM) has gained the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) approval to include the connectivity feature in its handsets.â¦
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In what may someday may be nicknamed the MacBerry, Information Appliance Associates (IAA) announced this week a product called PocketMac BlackBerry, a synchronization application that will give RIM BlackBerry users the ability to do two-way synching of Mac and RIM data.
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Research In Motion (RIM) is demonstrating a new BlackBerry Wireless Handheld that operates on 802.11b networks and incorporates both voice and data capabilities.
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IBM/Lotus is stepping up efforts to reassure users that its Notes/Domino collaboration platform isn't on the chopping block and will survive well into the future.
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The Microsoft rival plans to announce the software at its Lotusphere conference to be held next week.
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(InfoWorld) - The update to its Lotus Sametime software that IBM has been promoting for months will launch Wednesday, and the company plans to show off not only the product but also partner applications built using its new extensibility platform. In January, IBM announced it wasÂ planning a major update to Sametime, its corporate instant-messaging and collaboration software. It said the product would have voice over IP (VOIP) capabilities, integration with public IM clients from America Online, Yahoo, and Google and client-side support for Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.4 and Linux. As part of the revamp, IBM also added support for the open-source Eclipse development framework so third-party companies could build applications on top of Sametime. At a launch event in New York on Wednesday, partners such as Cisco Systems and Dassault Systemes will show off applications that leverage Sametime's ability to let users connect in real time, said Ken Bisconti, vice president of Lotus software products at IBM. Cisco will demonstrate Sametime plug-ins that let users "click to call" a VOIP audio conference that uses the networking company's technology, he said. Dassault, a French company that provides project-management software, is using its 3D modeling technology in conjunction with Sametime to let Sametime users view models of products -- for example, an airplane -- and connect via instant messaging or voice with the designers of different parts of the product, Bisconti said. Pricing for Sametime 7.5 is $55 per user. The product began shipping in mid-August. IBM is already planning enhancements for the product's next major upgrade, due some time next year. Keeping in line with its intention to make Sametime more extensible, IBM in the next version wants to improve Sametime's Web conferencing aspect by making it more open to external developers, said Adam Gartenberg, IBM's offering manager for real-time collaboration. For example, IBM is considering creating an API (application program interface) to let developers embed audio/video conferencing windows from other providers into Sametime's Web conference interface, he said. With Sametime 7.5 today, it's possible to schedule a third-party audio/video session when reserving the Web conference, or to launch an "instant meeting" from the IM client, he said. This brings up both a Sametime Web conference and a third-party audio/video session simultaneously, each with its own window on the desktop, he said. The planned API would give users an integrated video window where they could see all aspects of the Web meeting in one place, he said. IBM is also considering making the Sametime Web conferencing portion more modular, so elements of it can be made available outside the Web conferencing interface, Gartenberg said. These elements, such as uploaded files, desktop or application sharing capabilities and virtual whiteboards, could be made available from within IM or e-mail environments, he said. Instant messaging and real-time collaboration systems have traditionally been proprietary, so attempts to open up these systems to a broader IT universe are interesting, said Matt Brown, a Forrester Research analyst. "IBM is certainly pushing this idea of interoperability and [making] real-time collaboration a platform component that can be consumed by other applications," Brown said. Regarding IBM's plans, Sametime's Web conferencing would become less a place for users to meet online and more of an integrated part of the work they're involved in, Brown said. So, an e-mail sent to a group could be seamlessly escalated into a Web conference including every recipient, Brown said. Or a Web conference could be embedded into a product design application so the team could share designs and models in an ad-hoc way, Brown said. Sametime has more than 16 million users and is quite a mature product, but Microsoft hopes to steal some of its thunder with an update to its own real-time collaboration product. The company plans to ship Office Communications Server 2007 -- aÂ revamped and rebranded versionÂ of its Live Communications Server product -- as a competitor to Sametime in the second quarter of next year.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Shares in Blackberry-maker RIM touch new highs on talk that Microsoft is contemplating a bid for the firm.
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IBM Corp. Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.
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RIM will showcase several enhancements to its BlackBerry software at the Lotusphere conference this week.
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(InfoWorld) - The popular BlackBerry service will finally launch in Taiwan this week after being delayed in order to gain regulatory approval, a company representative confirmed Monday. The serviceÂ was originally slatedÂ to be up and running over the summer, and even a formal ceremony in September did not turn out to be the launch date for Research In Motion (RIM) and its local partner Taiwan Mobile Co.Â The island's National Communications Commission finally gave the service a green light last week. BlackBerry messaging and Internet access services will officially launch in Taiwan Wednesday. Taiwan will become the 17th country in the Asia-Pacific region to adopt the BlackBerry, but the service could face stiff competition on an island full of companies loyal to Microsoft. The robust PC industry in Taiwan depends mainly on Microsoft for its Windows OS and other software. The largest handset maker backing the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS is also from Taiwan, High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC). RIM has worked with local handset makers to avoid potential conflicts. Dopod International last week announced that two of its Windows Mobile handsets will be able to use BlackBerry services. The company installed RIM's BlackBerry Connect software on its 838Pro and C720W devices, which are aimed at users in Asia. Dopod obtained the software through an existing licensing relationship between HTC and RIM. Dopod was bought by HTC earlier this year. Users will be able to use the Dopod Windows Mobile-based handsets to access BlackBerry services with support for both BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.
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Information Appliance Associates, a software developer, announced the release of an application synchronizing Research In Motion&#39;s (RIM) BlackBerry mobile devices with Apple&#39;s Mac OS X.
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By JESSE NOYES  IBM is hoping to transform social networking from playtime phenomenon to workplace habit.  Big Blue today releases a suite of software - primarily developed in the Bay State - called Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr.
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IBM is turning to technology from Siemens to help bring Sametime, part of its Lotus Notes messaging and collaboration suite, up to par with Microsofts upcoming Office Communications Server 2007.