Here is an error one of my demo clients has been having since a week ago: “ERROR 1008: Your LotusLive servers are down for maintenance. We should have them running shortly.” This Error is the most recent one. The user has not had an access to LotusLive Notes since about a month ago. Prior to this one, …
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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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 …
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
Should Government Migrate IT to the Cloud?
Do you think our government should migrate IT systems to the cloud? I really don’t think so. I do trust the cloud technology per say but not enough to put the national security in hands of the cloud no matter what company or companies are managing the cloud environment. When it come to the national …
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Is Facebook phone a Reality?
Photo credit: Phonescoop.com Who would think that there will be a phone with the Facebook-based operating system? The UK-based INQ company has unveiled the first Facebook phone that has been designed in conjunction with the team behind the popular social network. The INQ phone is based on the Android platform. INQ has been making phones …
Watson Wins Jeopardy
Yep, IBM Watson bit two great Jeopardy players today. IBM’s super computer, named “Watson” after IBM’s founder Thomas J. Watson, finished 3 day tournament winning $77.147. Ken Jennings who broke the Jeopardy record for the most consecutive games played by winning 74 games in a raw during 2004 – 2005 season came in second winning …
Get Certification if You Plan to Resell Lotus Notes
Based on CRN, IBM will require training and certification for resellers of a number of the vendors’ Lotus messaging and collaboration products, channel partners were told at Lotusphere 2011 conference in Orlando earlier this month. Great idea IBM! I’m 100% agree that Lotus messaging resellers need to be competent in what they are reselling. This would save …
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Lotusphere 2011: LotusLive is a Direction Small Business Needs to Follow
The Lotusphere 2011 was closed on 2/3/11 and I am still trying to organize my thoughts on a lot if information presented at the conference. The first thought that come to my mind is the Lotusphere’s 1 slogan “Go Social. Do Business”. It well defines the latest trend across all industry segments and applies to …
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