During the past few weeks I have been reviewing two systems from the major Cloud offering players: IBM LotusLive and Microsoft Cloud (Offic365). Below is a table which I compiled based on my application review and interactions with the support personal. My intent is simply to compare two competing product lines based on my personal …
IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive Has Arrived
IBM has announced today availability of the IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive. This is a really great news for Notes and LotusLive community. No more headache with administering your Lotus Domino server, not more headache (I assume) with backups, security and hardware issues. The IBM Cloud will take care of it all. The only question …
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IBM LotusLive Gets New Translation Applications
IBM LotusLive gets new Translation Applications from LinguaSys. LinguaSys, Inc., an international language translation and text analytics software company announced last week a new suite of language translation applications, TGSocial, TGNotes and TGChat, for IBM Lotus and LotusLive social collaboration applications, both on-premises and in the Cloud. The new LinguaSys translation applications allow businesses around the world to communicate …
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What IBM Needs to Do to Retain its Lotus Notes Customers
I wish I knew what is going at the IBM head quarters in regards to this topic. I got a bit disappointed when I saw a news post “Steinhoff drops Lotus Notes …” confirming that 1,050 Lotus Notes seats will be replaced by Microsoft’s BOPS and not by LotusLive Cloud solution. When I see news …
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You Can Get in Trouble over Facebook Comments
It finally happened. Facebook has something to do with the arrest of Vikas Mavhudzi, 39 for posting a message on the “wall” of a Facebook account belonging to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Vikas’ alleged crime was to post a comment saying: “I am overwhelmed, I don’t want to say Mr. or PM what happened in …
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What is the Future For BlackBerry?
Business is getting tougher for Research In Motion (RIM). The departure of the chief marketing officer, Kith Pardy just weeks away from a new product release probably indicates that the company is out of options. Hardy joined RIM in December 2009 and has been responsible for overall BlackBerry brand marketing. RIM has been struggling lately …
Should you wait for iPad 3?
Apple’s iPad 2 was officially announced yesterday at the Apple’s special event. A few topics has been covered at the event besides introduction of the iPad 2 including some statistics: Apple sold 15 million iPAds in 2010 that generated around $9.5 billion in revenue There are 200 million iTunes accounts 100 million iPhones sold 100 million books …
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Cloud E-Mail
Cisco has pulled the plug on its cloud e-mail service which debuted 13 months ago. The announcement has been made by Debra Chrapaty, senior VP and GM of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group. In her blog post on Tuesday she wrote “In the thirteen months since, we’ve been market testing Cisco Mail via a controlled release. …
LotusLive Explained in 4 Minutes
Great video explaining what LotusLive complete collaboration suite is about by LotusLiveServices. It does everything you need to make you productive and forget about support and maintenance of your in house IT environment. And it only cost $10 per user per month. Watch the video.
LotusLive Offers BlackBerry Hosted Service
Great news for the LotusLive community. As of 2/22/2011 IBM LotusLive Notes 1.3 gets the additional hosted service offering for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, both with and without optional Mobile Data Services from RIM. LotusLive Notes subscription also supports Traveler application via Apple iPhone and iPad, Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian and Android devices. Source: IBM