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IBM posts poor hardware sales in last quarter

IBM hardware sales over the past three months have been poor according to the latest quarterly results, although Big Blue has continued to excel at selling software and systems.
IBM distributing limited first beta of Lotus Notes Social Edition

IBM has distributed to partners the first external beta code of Notes/Domino Social Edition, which will allow Notes client applications to run in a browser, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
Time Warner takes on Verizon, CenturyLink with NaviSite's DaaS service

Seeking to capture a slice of market share in the emerging field of virtual desktop services, NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable managed service provider of cloud-based products has announced its next major endeavor: a desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed specifically at enterprise customers.
LibreOffice 3.5 made available by The Document Foundation

LibreOffice 3.5 has been made available by The Document Foundation, which it described as the third major release of the open source productivity suite derived from the OpenOffice.org codebase.
Ray Ozzie pops up at mobile startup Cocomo

Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication.
Lenovo announces business focused ThinkPad tablet

Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad Tablet for businesses, which runs on Google's Android 3.1 and blends consumer features such as a camera with business-oriented manageability tools.
Salesforce.com pushing social enterprise concept

Salesforce.com is ready to help customers turn their businesses into "social enterprises," CEO Marc Benioff said during the on-demand software vendor's Cloudforce event.
Ubuntu Linux boosted by 10,000 seat PC win

Canonical has taken the wraps off a morale-boosting deal that has seen German insurance giant LVM Versicherungen convert 10,000 PCs to use Ubuntu Linux across the company?s operations.
BlackBerry email service will connect to Microsoft's Office 365 only after launch

The BlackBerry servers enterprises have installed in their data centres won't connect to Exchange Online but a free cloud-based BlackBerry email service will soon move into beta.
Security solutions deceived by attack vectors, antivirus tests reveal

A new round of antivirus testing found some products fail to detect malware that tries to infect a computer via a different attack vector, such as through a local network fileshare or a USB drive.

Latest Features

IBM CIO Jeanette Horan discusses BYOD strategy at Big Blue

IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time.
Can IBM's social approach at Lotusphere kickstart a Lotus Notes comeback?

Despite the tough position in which IBM finds Lotus Notes, the company will once again hold its Lotusphere conference at Walt Disney World from January 15-19 - this time with a more intense focus on new social business technology could have a long-term impact on IBM's future in the email and collaboration market.
The solution to legacy application woes

Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive and thus difficult to justify; plus, it tends to interrupt operations. Meanwhile, the ageing software lingers in accounting's ledgers, overstays its welcome in sales and causes poor network performance throughout the organisation.
15 essential open source tools for Windows administrators

Microsoft offers great tools for enhancing your server-side experience, but open source has impressive options as well.
Top open source office suites: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

Dueling open source alternatives to Microsoft Office match word processors, spreadsheets and much more, which one should you choose?
Five top open source group collaboration suites

Messaging and groupware is at the heart of business and applications most people use everyday. While the big names like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Google Apps are increasing their influence, enterprises have several viable open source options.
Amiga: 25 years later

The Commodore Amiga is 25 years old. The computer made its debut at a black-tie, celebrity-studded gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York's Lincoln Center. InfoWorld predicted it would be the "third milestone" in personal computing after the Apple II and the IBM PC. Here's why it was the biggest cult PC ever made.
Can virtual PCs save desktop Linux?

Linux on the desktop on a virtual PC could be a strong alternative to Microsoft with cost benefits.
Microsoft Office vs. Google Apps: The business brawl

In the business battle to rule the enterprise office suite of the future, Microsoft and Google both must overcome significant problems.
Google Apps: A simple guide

Google would like you to believe that its hosted e-mail and office productivity tools are just as good as Microsoft's. While that's probably not the case yet, Google Apps is a valid and inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Office for many types of customers. Here's what you need to know about Google Apps.

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Integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes

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Securing unified communications

The deployment of enterprise class unified communications platforms has not eliminated consumer-grade instant messaging from organisations, which means a new security approach is required.
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite: An Architectural Overview

The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide an architectural overview of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) as well as share some of the messaging and web systems expertise we brought to bear in building Zimbra.
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What Email Hackers Know that you Don't

E-mail systems such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and GroupWise were constructed with a single purpose in mind: accept and send the maximum amount of mail, and route that mail as efficiently as possible. Without question this has succeeded; e-mail is the most commonly utilized business communication tool on the planet, and its use is projected to continue to rise. In fact, the current volume of e-mail sent worldwide is now more than 50 billion messages per day, with that number expected to double by 2008.
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The Future's in Sight

IBM?s Lotus Sametime, the stalwart crossover player in both the enterprise instant messaging (EIM) and Web conferencing markets, seemed to stall over the last two to three years as an IBM branding effort took the popular application through a name change nobody recognized.
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