News for Today, Apr 15

Today's news:

• Cingular Wireless released its XpressMail With BlackBerry service to retail customers via its retail stores. XpressMail enables subscribers to gain wireless access to their email from a BlackBerry handheld device. Yahoo Business


• iAnywhere is hosting a technical webinar regarding extending Lotus Domino-based databases and applications to a wide variety of mobile devices, with a particular focus on its own Pylon Application Server. Where: your office. When: April 29, 2004 (2-3pm EST). iAnywhere


• The KM Cluster and the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy are hosting a one-day summit on Social Networks, "a critical foundation of communities of practices, knowledge management, enterprise collaboration, learning, expertise management, productivity, innovation, markets and economies". Where: San Francisco. When: May 21, 2004. KM Cluster


• InformationWeek interviewed Ray Ozzie of Groove Networks. Key take-aways: (a) file-sharing workspaces is a big deal; (b) there's a revised forms development environment (which, as Volker points out, looks extremely similar to the Domino Designer client); (c) security is built-in and is 'complacency-immune'; and (d) Groove is designed to support inter-organizational communications because it layers on top of existing infrastructure without requiring changes to any of it. InformationWeek


• Microsoft released a new version of its plug-in to enable users of Microsoft Outlook to link with IBM Lotus Domino Servers. It apparently adds support for Outlook 2003 and Domino 6.x servers. Available immediately. PCWorld.com Download from Microsoft


• The British Bankers' Association, which "acts as a catalyst for the banking sector, seeking members' views and comment on regulatory initiatives and legislation before making submissions to the Government, European Commission or regulators on behalf of the industry" has licensed the Hummingbird Enterprise collaboration suite to improve communications with association members. The product is "a highly secure, Web-based collaborative workspace for dispersed teams across and beyond the enterprise. It enables businesses across the entire industry spectrum to streamline collaborative processes, enhance team productivity, and speed the delivery of targeted results in any collaborative activity". Banking & Technology News