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    4phun
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    IBM Software Coming For IPhone, Other Apple Devices
    Today, January 16, 2008

    IBM software coming for iPhone and other Apple devices
    By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
    AP Technology Writer
    386 words
    16 January 2008
    02:00
    Associated Press Newswires
    English
    (c) 2008. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

    E-mail software from IBM Corp. will be available on Apple Inc. iPhones
    and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together
    two big rivals of Microsoft Corp.

    IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for
    Apple's portable devices at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando,
    Fla., next week. The software, which requires use of IBM's Domino e-
    mail server program, will be free for users who already have a Lotus
    Web-access license and start at $39 per year for new users.

    IBM also plans to release Lotus Notes and the free Lotus Symphony
    "productivity" package -- which includes documents, spreadsheets and
    other Microsoft Office-like software -- for Apple's Macintosh
    computers.

    With these moves, IBM is trying to find more avenues for its software
    and take advantage of Apple's natural affinity for Microsoft
    alternatives.

    The iPhone already can connect users to Web-based e-mail services and
    to corporate e-mail sent over Microsoft's Exchange e-mail platform,
    though businesses rarely enable the setting that makes it possible.

    If IBM, which counts 135 million Lotus users worldwide, can get
    companies to let their employees check Lotus e-mail on iPhones, the
    partnership could make Apple's gadget more competitive with Research
    in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and other business-targeted smart phones.

    IBM and Apple, competitors in the early years of the PC market,
    traditionally have not worked closely together in software, though
    Apple used IBM chips in some Macs for several years until ditching
    them in favor of Intel Corp. processors in 2005. But now the sides
    appreciate that "we have a lot in common," IBM spokesman Mike Azzi
    said. "We're going to cross-pollinate."

    One reason for the distance between the two companies is the small
    overlap between Mac users and the big corporate customers that
    commonly buy products from IBM.

    Now, Apple hardware has become a broader platform with the popularity
    of the iPhone and Web-enabled iPod Touch devices. However, Apple has
    delayed fully opening the devices to third-party applications; a
    "software developers' kit" to enable that isn't due until next month.
    Apple and IBM have been working together on their own.



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    larry
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    Re: IBM Software Coming For IPhone

    4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:3ab5eeef-cff1-4082-b4de-
    [email protected]:

    > IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for
    > Apple's portable devices at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando,
    > Fla., next week. The software, which requires use of IBM's Domino e-
    > mail server program, will be free for users who already have a Lotus
    > Web-access license and start at $39 per year for new users.
    >
    >


    Yet another browser-accessed, server-based WebTV app NOT installed on the
    iPhoney.



    IBM apps for the N800 Linux tablet are also in the works. They look like:
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...-lob800-3.html
    Notice how the CODE is INSTALLED on the tablet as a SERVER for the webcam.

    IBM's interest in the Linux tablets goes way back before even the 770:
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li.../l-lob770.html




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