IBM Lotus Adds Handles to Information Overload
by Dan Burger

IBM Lotus has every intention of using Britney Spears. Not as a spokesperson, for God sakes, but as an example. Spears dominates the social networking phenomenon like Big Blue wishes it could. Specifically, Lotus wants to apply social networking to business processes and team collaboration efforts. Not that Britney doesn't mean business, but IBM has very different ideas about putting social networking tools into the hands of business professionals in organizations around the world. READ MORE >

Applied Logic Launches OS/400 Encryption Utility
by Alex Woodie

An affordable OS/400 encryption solution was launched last week by Applied Logic Software, an Oregon-based developer of several IBM midrange utilities. With Pro/Encrypt 1.4, i5/OS and OS/400 shops gain the capability to encrypt DB2/400 data, thereby paving the way toward compliance with new laws, while making it more unlikely that sensitive data falls into the wrong hands.READ MORE >

BOSaNOVA Launches Four Thin Clients
by Alex Woodie

Thin client news has been arriving fast and furious from BOSaNOVA lately, and the pattern continued during the last couple weeks, as the Phoenix, Arizona, company announced four new thin clients--including two additions to its slim and sleek "Rabbit" line of thin client devices, and two members of its new 1300 Series line of high performance terminals. READ MORE >

GT Software Gives Web Service Smarts to Web-Enabled Apps
by Alex Woodie

GT Software recently issued a new release of Ivory VisualConnect, a software product for converting 5250 and 3270 screens into Web-based interfaces. With version 5.3, the company has boosted the product's integration with Ivory Service Architect, its primary service oriented architecture (SOA) development tools, making it easier to create Web services from applications that have also been re-faced with Ivory VisualConnect. READ MORE >