Blackberry OS 6 – will it help RIM to stay on the top?

We all know that Blackberry was associated with the smartphone phone and has dominated the smart phone market. Will this continue? or perhaps iPhone and Android phones are here to stay and to dominate? The Blackberry OS 6 will be appearing on the scene sometime by the end of the 2010 third quarter. read more…

CouchDB NoSQL database available for download

The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, announced on Wednesday. Work on CouchDB began in 2005 at IBM as a Lotus Notes project to help with off-line replication of data. It became an independent open-source project in 2008. Couchio offers commercial support …

Is IBM really a Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software?

Just read the the IDC report states that worldwide revenue for the social platforms market reached $369.7 million in 2009 which is 55% up growth. According to the IDC, IBM is ranked #1 as over 35% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted IBM’s social software offerings, which include Lotus Connections, LotusLive Connections. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2si30EOtG8] read more…

IBM’s Lotus Foundation in Tanzania

Yes, IBM is expending its market share in Tanzania! Computer Assisted Telephony Systems (CaTS) is setting up an office in Tanzania to convert African world to use IBM Lotus foundations. Read more…

is IBM moving to Firefox?

Apparently IBM is moving to Firefox as a default browser. How is it going to effect all of us consumers of IBM technology? Read more…

President Obama Creates a Small Business Jobs Plan – will it help IT ???

Wondering whether this Plan will do anything for a small business. ================================================= In her kickoff address SBA (Small Business Administration) Administrator Karen Mills reported on  last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) which  has lent $27 billion to small businesses to date. But as Mills said, “There’s more work to do.” To that end, …

IBM Lotus Domino will have an installed base of 192 million mailboxes this year.

I really hope that 192 million is a good number and does not include 100 million seats from IBM and IBM partners. Good job IBM on increasing the market share (hopefully). I think that IBM still needs to do a lot more on making Lotus Notes as popular as the other email brand names on …

Cool move by IBM to the i-World direction

IBM releasing Lotus Notes Traveler for iPad is a very cool step towards bringing so much missing IBM Notes technology on the Apple platform. Hopefully more news like that will be coming soon. From ReadWrite Enterprise. IBM released this week the iPad version of Lotus Notes Traveler, featuring two-way encrypted synchronization of e-mail, calendar and …