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Radio broadcaster, Lotus fm has aligned themselves with the United Nations World Food Programme in a campaign to fight against hunger in southern Africa, the broadcaster said on Tuesday.

Radio broadcaster, Lotus fm has aligned themselves with the United Nations World Food Programme in a campaign to fight against hunger in southern Africa, the broadcaster said on Tuesday.

It's a miraculous jump in weather when it goes from 100 plus degrees by noon to partly cloudy with a chance of showers. It's safe to say that flood season is right around the corner.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.----Dutton Associates updates its coverage of Genesis Technology Group Inc. , revising its rating from Speculative Buy to Neutral. The 11-page report by Dutton Associates senior analyst Stanley Ng is available at www.jmdutton.com as well as from First Call, Bloomberg, Zacks, Reuters, and Knobias and other leading financial portals.

PC World: "Early user reviews of IBM's new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM's ears..."

BELLEVUE, Wash., and WATERLOO, Ontario----T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion announced the Wi-Fi®-enabled BlackBerry® Curve 8320, the first BlackBerry® handset available in the U.S. that supports T-Mobile® HotSpot @Home over a Wi-Fi connection and great in-home mobile coverage.

Nextel Cup LifeLock 400 - Kansas Speedway - Kansas City, KS For those who survived the "Monster Mile" it's on to the Kansas Speedway for race No.3 in the 10-race "Chase for the Nextel Cup." Last Sunday's "War of Attrition" saw Carl Edwards emerge as the big winner, climbing five positions after his win. At the other end of the spectrum were Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch and Denny ...

Radio broadcaster, Lotus fm has aligned themselves with the United Nations World Food Programme to highlight the plight of people who are dying of starvation in southern Africa.

KUALA TERENGGANU: It may not be the typical fare for breaking fast but mooncakes are proving to be a popular choice here, especially with Mid-Autumn Festival less than a week away.

Microsoft is releasing Mac Office 2008 at a time when its lock on the desktop market is under pressure from some well-heeled challengers such as IBM and Google.

As a general rule, Virtually Speaking doesn't tend to comment on what others have to say about virtualization . There's often too much real news going on to dissect the dissection.

Microsoft is releasing Mac Office 2008 at a time when its lock on the desktop market is under pressure from some well-heeled challengers such as IBM and Google.

By many accounts, Ray Ozzie stepped into some big shoes just over a year ago when he took over Bill Gates' day-to-day role as Microsoft's chief software architect (CSA).

From the Swindon road, the RAF base at Wroughton looks like a relic of wartime Britain. Two gargantuan hangars, with paint peeling from their elegant curved roofs, stand close to its entrance. An old concrete runway stretches into the middle distance. Behind a high security fence, you can see the rolling Marlborough Downs.

The Princeton Fall Antiques and Fine Arts Show offers a chance at fine living, all in the name of historic preservation.

"The fact that he's a rookie has been put aside for now..it's either him or Alonso" - says AA

Managers and staff from visitor industry businesses around the island will gather at the Hilton Kauai Beach Resort on Oct. 26 for a one-day conference.

BEIJING - The beloved national tradition of nibbling sweet pastry mooncakes and admiring the fullness of the harvest moon in the Mid-Autumn, or Moon, Festival has been hit by China's runaway inflation, forcing vendors to opt for frugal variations of the rich treat.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Lotus India Asset Management Co Pvt Ltd on Tuesday filed initial papers with India's market regulator to launch the country's third banking sector fund.

Martin Veitch, IT Week , Tuesday 25 September 2007 at 00:00:00 Potential deal suggests online storage could become bigger factor for businesses Storage giant EMC is expected to acquire startup firm Berkeley Data Systems in a deal that suggests online and outsourced storage could become a bigger factor for businesses.... >  Read the full article      

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 on Ubuntu 7.04..."

With systems teams under so much pressure to develop products faster, reduce production costs, and react to changing business needs quickly, communication and collaboration seem to get lost. Now, theres a way to improve product quality and communication.

Size and location; use; tenant; agent or landlord; approximate date of occupancy or transaction. 23,024sf at 3430 Brickway Blvd., Santa Rosa; industrial; Express Wine Delivery; Barry Palma and Ben Stewart of Orion Partners; Sep. 15.

Wonder what Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will mean to Northwest Arkansas? Scot Miller's "Thoreau's Walden: A Journey in Photographs" offers just a taste.

Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit will teach half-day search engine optimization training class on Friday, December 7, 2007 (PRWeb Sep 25, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SG9yci1Mb3ZlLVN1bW0tTWFnbi1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit will teach half-day search engine optimization training class on Friday, December 7, 2007

Updated: 25 Sep 2007 Early user reviews of IBM's new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM's ears. While testers praised Symphony's slick interface, they also said the software, which is still in beta, has performance and feature-set problems.

A LANTERN procession inched its ways through the streets of George Town during the tang-lung festival celebration.

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Frost & Sullivan honored companies for innovation and leadership in a variety of industries at the 3rd annual Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards Banquet held in Monterey, California last Tuesday.

The music of the pianist and singer Barbara Carroll sustains an exquisite balance between classical refinement and a steady, understated jazz pulse.

Baldwin's Station: Dave Rowe Trio, 8 p.m. show today, $15; Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan Sands, 8 p.m. today, $20; 7618 Main St., Sykesville; 410-795-1041.

I'm always pleased when companies respond to the complaints of its user base -- especially when the user base isn't paying anything for the privilege. So while it is gratifying that Apple is offering irate early iPhone adopters $100 coupons , I feel even more appreciative that IBM quickly tweaked its originally irritating registration process for Lotus Symphony.

The Globalisation Institute, a European think tank, wants all computers to be sold without operating systems. Here's why that's a bad idea.

Le Royal Meridien Shanghai ushers in the Mid-Autumn Festival with the sales of mooncake gift vouchers, perfect for gift-giving from the Mooncake sales desk in the ground lobby.

OREGON - When people ask O.K. Welty how he's feeling on any given day, he's got a little twist on an old, familiar phrase. "Now I can use that saying that a lot of people say," said Welty, a 44-year-old car salesman from Oregon. "But now I mean it. I feel like a million bucks."

I AM Malay, so why am I drawn to a totally Malay kind of holiday? The truth is, I’ve lost touch with my roots, having lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur for more than half of my life.

Nanotechnology deals with the manipulation of atoms to produce materials, devices and even machines. The world has taken to it in a big way and Malaysia is not lagging behind as it discovers its potential, writes AHMAD IBRAHIM.

Bandar Seri Begawan - The St Andrew's School Badminton Club recently celebrated its second Gala Night at I-Lotus Restaurant in Kg Rimba. Some 120 guests comprising students, parents, ex-students and coaches turned up for the function.

Double F1 world champion believes Lewis Hamilton could become the Tiger Woods of motor racing. Interview by Gareth A Davies.

Life & style: Fitness questions are sometimes embarrassing and you can't always find the answers in books. So what's on the internet? Andy Darling investigates.

Early user reviews of IBM's new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM's ears.

Ranbaxy Laboratories has signed an in-licensing agreement with Australia-based Sirtex Medical to promote and market Sir-Spheres. The product is used to treat patients with inoperable tumours from primary colorectal cancer that have spread to the liver.

Chinese people around the world celebrate autumn by gathering together and gazing at the full moon.

New alternatives have some advantages, but may find it hard to dislodge Microsoft's deep-rooted software.

OREGON - As we first told you last night, an Oregon man hit the Illinois Lottery Jackpot.

IBM's offering is a scaled-down edition of OpenOffice.org, but the company has given them a bit of a UI makeover and promises greater involvement in the development process.

The draft Retail and Wholesale Business Act is unlikely to be passed by this government, considering the short time left in its mandate, says Lt Jit Siratranont, a National Legislative Assembly member (NLA).

In a new challenge to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Office suite — and an apparent attempt to open a new front in the open-document debate — IBM has introduced a suite of free software applications for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

Size and location; use; tenant; agent or landlord; approximate date of occupancy or transaction. 23,024sf at 3430 Brickway Blvd., Santa Rosa; industrial; Express Wine Delivery; Barry Palma and Ben Stewart of Orion Partners; Sep. 15.

I replaced one of the downspouts of my gutter with a rain chain this summer. When a recent rain ran over the copper and brass links, it reminded me of how much rain chains are like retirement investing.

Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced Cloudmark Gateway(TM) for Hosted Messaging Providers, a high-performance edge mail transfer agent (MTA) that integrates with Cloudmark Authority(TM), the company's comprehensive messaging security solution.

Up until fairly recently, Microsoft Office was the primary choice for anyone who wanted to purchase an office suite. Office is about as compatible as you can get, as other suites attempt to match compatibility so they can read and write from Microsoft Office documents.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.----LiteScape Technologies, Inc. , a leading developer of Unified Communications applications, today announced that it had opened a new office in the Shiodome Shiba-Rikyu Building in Tokyo, Japan.

Srinagar, Sept 24 : Sringar's Dal Lake is famous the world over for its scenic location, the shikaras (boats) that float on it and for the promotion of aqua sports like water skiing.

The Princeton Fall Antiques and Fine Arts Show offers a chance at fine living, all in the name of historic preservation.

Now that everyone has seemingly found religion with the Software-as-a-Service model, upstarts like Trilog Group are moving beyond CRM to get some of that SMB cash.

Lotus Cars releases its latest limited edition this month - the exciting ‘Club Racer’ a visually distinctive version of the Exige S.The Club Racer represents a real value proposition, benefiting from standard upgrades as well as featuring a number of unique additions, for a recommended retail price of £39,950.

Count Trilog Group among the first of what's sure to be a deluge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ( define ) providers emerging from relative obscurity to capitalize on the application-delivery model popularized by Salesforce.com.

Visto, the leading global provider of secure, easy-to-use mobile email, today announced Visto Mobile 5.7 - the newest edition of its award-winning Visto Mobile messaging platform. With a focus on greater choice, accessibility and enhanced user experience, this latest offering delivers "anywhere access" to Internet-based email accounts such as AOL, Gmail, MSN Hotmail and YahooMail! as well as ...

With a nod to Facebook, large companies now have the virtual equivalent of the water cooler on the Web

Going through all the flyers and papers i gathered in New York during my last trip there i realized there were still tons of exhibitions i should mention.

By Suhail Ahmed Srinagar, Sept 24 (ANI): Sringar's Dal Lake is famous the world over for its scenic location, the shikaras (boats) that float on it and for the promotion of aqua sports like water skiing. The Dal Lake is also famous for its 'floating vegetable market', the only one of its kind in India and the second in the world, the other being the rowing shops along the backwaters ...

Managers and staff from visitor industry businesses around the island will gather at the Hilton Kauai Beach Resort on Oct. 26 for a one-day conference.

( InfoWorld ) - While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers.

( InfoWorld ) - While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. On the x86 server side, Nationwide reached ...

While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.

IBM is the latest company to join the ranks of firms offering free office software as a challenge to Microsoft’s dominance. Big Blue's Lotus Symphony suite will include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software and can be downloaded free of charge.

The Timeout Tavern & Nightclub , 27822 Aliso Creek Road DJ (Top 40), 9 p.m.-2 a.m. every Fri. $5 cover. DJ ('70s,'80s,'90s), 9 p.m.-2 a.m. every Sat. $5 cover.

Wonder what Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will mean to Northwest Arkansas? Scot Miller's "Thoreau's Walden: A Journey in Photographs" offers just a taste.

Wonder what Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will mean to Northwest Arkansas? Scot Miller's "Thoreau's Walden: A Journey in Photographs" offers just a taste.

Sales manager, two others join KUAT

“I think we’re all world citizens,” Haglund said from her director’s office at Literacy Volunteers of Flathead County, “and there’s opportunities for peace if we get to know each other. I try to live my life that way.”

LiteScape Technologies, Inc. (www.litescape.com), a leading developer of Unified Communications applications, today announced that it had opened a new office in the Shiodome Shiba-Rikyu Building in Tokyo, Japan. The office will lead the company's rapid expansion in Japan and East Asia and help LiteScape capitalize on the growing demand for Unified Communications solutions throughout the region.

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Over the past 20 years, Elaine Price has established herself as a serial entrepreneur by focusing predominantly on supporting EMC.

Baldwin's Station: Dave Rowe Trio, 8 p.m. show today, $15; Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan Sands, 8 p.m. today, $20; 7618 Main St., Sykesville; 410-795-1041.

"The simplest definition of design is how you treat your customer ." - Yves Behar , founder, fuseproject

Jamie Janover is a man who knows. What does he know? Well if you talk to him, he convincingly sounds like he knows just about everything. And the fact of the matter is that it truly seems like he does.

BIG ON HEALTH: A selection of Woods Macrobiotics healthy mooncakes. Sweet but calorie-filled and rich. What is a health-conscious mooncake-lover to do? KARINA FOO goes organic.

Sweet but calorie-filled and rich. What is a health-conscious mooncake-lover to do? KARINA FOO goes organic.

BIG ON HEALTH: A selection of Woods Macrobiotics healthy mooncakes. Sweet but calorie-filled and rich. What is a health-conscious mooncake-lover to do? KARINA FOO goes organic.

No vendor has come close to breaking Microsoft's grip on PC applications, but they keep trying. Google, IBM, OpenOffice.org, and Yahoo last week gave it another go.

Casting Crowns: One of the nation's top Christian bands, Casting Crowns, will return Friday to UTEP's Don Haskins Center, 151 Glory Road. Tickets cost $8 to $43.25, plus service charges, at all Ticketmaster outlets and at www.ticketmaster.com. 544-8444, 747-5234.

Positioning, targeting and segmentation, when well executed, ensure that the competition is kept at bay. However, the insulation can get to be porous, and inroads by peers possible, when the brand develops product fatigue and deserves a quick re-look in terms of positioning and/or segmentation.

Senior leader LK Advani feels Atal Bihari Vajpayee would be back soon to lead the Bharatiya Janta Party.

Casting Crowns: One of the nation's top Christian bands, Casting Crowns, will return Friday to UTEP's Don Haskins Center, 151 Glory Road. Tickets cost $8 to $43.25, plus service charges, at all Ticketmaster outlets and at www.ticketmaster.com. 544-8444, 747-5234.

The 4 indicates admission is $5 or less, or free. Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members, children and/or advance purchase. Call venue for details.

Managers and staff from visitor industry businesses around the island will gather at the Hilton Kauai Beach Resort on Oct. 26 for a one-day conference.

LHASA, Tibet -- At sunrise and sunset, the air is cool, the scent of burning juniper incense is strong, and a river of pilgrims flows in a sacred circle around Jokhang Temple .

For two young Indian filmmakers, Geeta and Lata, May 24, 2006, will forever be etched in their memories. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Yogyakarta, Indonesia, when they were in the midst of filming the temple complexes in Prambanan and Yogyakarta for a documentary.

These are among reports filed through Sept. 14 by police agencies in Seminole County. For more information, contact your police department.

Wonder what Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will mean to Northwest Arkansas? Scot Miller's "Thoreau's Walden: A Journey in Photographs" offers just a taste.

Casting Crowns: One of the nation's top Christian bands, Casting Crowns, will return Friday to UTEP's Don Haskins Center, 151 Glory Road. Tickets cost $8 to $43.25, plus service charges, at all Ticketmaster outlets and at www.ticketmaster.com. 544-8444, 747-5234.

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Now that everyone has seemingly found religion with the Software-as-a-Service model, upstarts like Trilog Group are moving beyond CRM to get some of that SMB cash.

Count Trilog Group among the first of what's sure to be a deluge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ( define ) providers emerging from relative obscurity to capitalize on the application-delivery model popularized by Salesforce.com.

Chennai, Sep 23 (IANS) For two young Indian filmmakers, Geeta and Lata, May 24, 2006, will forever be etched in their memories. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Yogyakarta, Indonesia, when they were in the midst of filming the temple complexes in Prambanan and Yogyakarta for a documentary.

FREE -- El Paso Chopin Music Festival: The El Paso Chopin Music Festival will feature three pianists: Howard Na, today; Igor Lovchinsky, Oct. 6; and Lucy Scarbrough, Oct. 20. All concerts will be at 8 p.m. The Na and the Lovchinsky concerts will be at the Chamizal National Memorial, 800 S. San Marcial.

Baldwin's Station: Dave Rowe Trio, 8 p.m. show today, $15; Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan Sands, 8 p.m. today, $20; 7618 Main St., Sykesville; 410-795-1041.

Several hundred people shared stories about antique cars at Union Point Park on Saturday as music from the 1950s and 1960s played on speakers. About 60 cars were on display at the First Capital Chapter of North Carolina Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America show.

Skinny-dipping at Bradford Beach at 3 in the morning, artist-filmmaker Mark Escribano felt a "lightness" that was utterly new to him.

It was a bit different then- not much different than it is today. Then sepoys and soldiers on roads were hardly seen. The sandbag bunkers with protruding nozzles threatening one’s life were totally alien to the landscape.

The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) during the week witnessed a strong rally and the market remained upbeat during the last two trading sessions. The benchmark index, CSE-40, rose 449.58 points over the previous week. During the past week it had managed to gain 51.08 points. The index opened at 7596.25 and moved in a narrow band till Tuesday. Thereafter, the market started gaining momentum and ...

Legos recreate movie scenes and trailers, a high-tech salad spinner, and the iPhone makes its way to the other side of the pond. A popular phenomenon on YouTube these days involves ambitious users who re-create scenes from feature films, trailers and music videos. But...

Count Trilog Group among the first of what's sure to be a deluge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ( define ) providers emerging from relative obscurity to capitalize on the application-delivery model popularized by Salesforce.com.

Children will march with glowing lanterns as the Asian community celebrates the joyous Autumn Moon Festival on Sunday.

Hethel Engineering Centre has become a successful hub of industry excellence and helped create more than 50 jobs and 13 new businesses, a council report concludes.

Yoga teachers and students will gather Sunday to participate in the Global Mala Project. "I think there are a lot of different communities around Shreveport that feel that peace is important in their lives," said yoga teacher and event organizer Monica Fayad.

Norton featuring Chinese art during festival Ever heard an erhu , a two-stringed Chinese violin?

New alternatives have some advantages, but may find it hard to dislodge Microsoft's deep-rooted software.

Now that everyone has seemingly found religion with the Software-as-a-Service model, upstarts like Trilog Group are moving beyond CRM to get some of that SMB cash.

IBM puts a more professional polish on OpenOffice.org in the beta release of this promising (and free) Office alternative.

There is not a single electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid that can approach the range, interior room and performance of a typical gas-powered sedan for a comparable price.

Microsoft feels heat from the European community and software companies, and Intel makes a power play. Also: Space fight takes flight.

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IBM, SAP and Microsoft choose the Big Apple for three big-time, industry-altering announcements.

Lotus Symphony open-source software and Lotus Notes 8 could enable IBM to mount a serious challenge to Microsoft's dominance

Under the terms of the agreement, Visto and IBM will collaborate on the enablement and marketing of a connector for Visto Mobile for Lotus Domino, providing existing and new Lotus Domino customers with mobile access to email, calendar appointments, contacts and other data pushed directly to their mobile phones.

Industry observers have noted Lotus Notes' new and improved features but doubt it will succeed in luring Outlook users from Microsoft

N.C. State University will hold an open house tonight for Lone Wolf -- a high-tech, low-slung Lotus sports car that drives itself.

Vamosa announced Vamosa Content Migrator for IBM Lotus Quickr, said to be a new way for organizations to fast-start their Lotus Quickr implementation.

THE Mid-Autumn Festival is a time when mooncakes are much sought after. Traditionally made with black lotus or yellow bean paste, sometimes with a salted duck’s egg added for variety or colour, they are then baked in thin pastry to a rich golden brown.

Microsoft Office is used by half a billion desk jockeys. Its competitors want a piece of the action.

Over the last couple of months I've had a couple readers contact me wondering how to set up multiple websites on one Domino server. So this month we'll go into the configuration necessary to get Domino to play nice while serving up more than one site from the same server.

IBM recently announced it would embrace the OpenOffice.org productivity suite project and we're already seeing results, chiefly the beta release of IBM's free Lotus Symphony.

With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy. Savio Rodriguez is the Infoworld blogger in question, and this is fair play because he is, in fact, an...

When I read about Lotus Symphony, IBM's spanking new free office suite , I was intrigued, and decided to try it out during my lunch hour. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Why? Because it took most of that hour just to get through the registration process.

IBM has just unleashed a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications. Called Lotus Symphony, the free software release includes separate word processor, spreadsheet, and business presentation applications that are squarely targeted at the capabilities of Microsoft Office. As part of IBM's strategy for promoting the Open Document Format (ODF), Symphony builds upon Big Blue's ...

"Mobile support for Lotus Notes and Domino Web Access users through IBM Lotus Notes Traveler- Following the shipping of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 that began worldwide in August, IBM is announcing Lotus Notes Traveler, a new client for Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1. Currently scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2008, Lotus Notes Traveler will provide out-of-the-box, mobile support ...

Analyst acknowledges Lotus Notes' new-and-improved features but doubts version 8 will succeed in luring Microsoft Outlook users. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com

IBM has announced that IBM Lotus Connections, the industry's first integrated social software offering for business, would now be available to the public.

Yesterday IBM announced IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, a new feature of Domino 8.0.1 to support push mail to Windows Mobile devices at no additional cost. This announcement was in addition to the existing partnerships with RIM, Nokia, Motorola's Good Technology, CommonTime, iAnywhere, and Visto.

Everyone-hates-Redmond week It's been a good week for anyone praying for the demise of Microsoft Office. Google unveiled its long-awaited, web-based PowerPoint competitor . IBM took the wraps off the free Lotus Symphony , a complete suite of MS-battling tools. And now we have a new version OpenOffice.org.…

IBM's recent Lotus moves are part of the company's larger war with Microsoft in the market for collaboration software.

IBM's recent Lotus moves are part of the company's larger war with Microsoft in the market for collaboration software.

VAIL — Local yogis — those experienced in the practice of yoga and new to the art alike — will gather as the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and Mountain Lotus yoga host the Global Mala yoga event.

NewsFactor - Enterprise software for free? Apparently so. IBM has just releated a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications, called Lotus Symphony.

Enterprise software for free? Apparently so. IBM has just releated a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications, called Lotus Symphony. The free software that comprises Lotus Symphony includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, and business presentation applications that are clearly targeted at the capabilities of the popular Microsoft Office suite.

IBM is releasing IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tools can be downloaded at no charge.

( InfoWorld ) - IBM's move to develop its own suite of productivity applications to compete with Microsoft's Office software is part of a larger war the two companies are waging in the market for employee collaboration applications. Many companies use Lotus Notes/Domino for e-mail and messaging alongside Microsoft Office for productivity, and each company is trying to leverage the ...

It's the morning after IBM's Lotus Collaboration Summit, at which IBM announced that the reincarnation of an ODF-compliant Lotus Symphony is integrated into Notes 8 -- as well as being offered as a free download. The media coverage conveys that IBM is trying to win over the Microsoft Office...

IBM has just unleashed a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications. Called Lotus Symphony, the free software release includes separate word processor, spreadsheet, and business presentation applications that are squarely targeted at the capabilities of Microsoft Office. As part of IBM's strategy for promoting the Open Document Format (ODF), Symphony builds upon Big Blue's ...

Thisversion of Symphony appears to be reworked version of StarOfficedistributed in a binary-only format; it is available for Windows,SLED 10, RHEL 5, and "RedHat5." Registration is required todownload the software.

Google Docs and Microsoft Office rivaling freeware

IBM has released a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations here Wednesday.

IBM has introduced a suite of free software applications for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations called IBM Lotus Symphony in a new challenge to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite.

Bangalore, Sep 19 (IANS) IBM has released a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations here Wednesday.

U.S. computer giant IBM Corp. launched free downloadable software Tuesday to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Lotus Symphony software -- with Symphony Documents, Symphony Spreadsheets and Symphony Presentations -- is available for download at www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony, IBM said. The "enterprise-grade" software, which supports Windows ...

IBM has decided to play in the free productivity suite market with a reincarnation of its Symphony brand, for a collection of Lotus Notes 8 editors under that name. IBM Plays Symphony, One-Ups Microsoft IBM Lotus executive Ed Brill noted how the Symphony name is a classic one, and using it for this new offering is "a very strong label for describing the current ...

The software, called Lotus Symphony, is based on IBM's Lotus family of products and includes document processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools that rival the Word, Excel and PowerPoint tools found in Microsoft's Office suite.

IBM spins out standalone office suite from Notes IBM has launched a free standalone suite to compete with Microsoft Office, spinning out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes.

NEW YORK, USA: US based tech company IBM has announced that they would now challenge Microsoft’s MS Office productivity suite with their own free application package.

N.C. State University and Insight Racing of Cary have invited the public to an open house Friday evening to show off Lone Wolf, a low-slung Lotus sports car that drives itself. The car will travel to California next month for the semifinals of a $3.

BOSTON, US: International Business Machines Corp has said it will give customers the option of buying its Lotus e-mail and collaboration software as a service hosted at its data centers, allowing customers to access those programs through Web browsers.

Updated: 19 Sep 2007 IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

Read this, it's quite thought provoking. Especially for old journalists like me who actually covered Lotus 1-2-3. And your programmers are like, jeez louise, GMail is huge, we can’t port GMail to this stupid NewSDK.

The companies offer a content push technology that does not require a separate server for mobile e-mail.

NEW YORK , NY – IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) has announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

In a clever marketing move that had some of us fooled, IBM revealed today it was doing much more than beginning the process of rebuilding its own applications suite.

BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday it will give customers the option of buying its Lotus e-mail and collaboration software as a service hosted at its data centres, allowing customers to access those programs through Web browsers.

IBM willl start offering free word processing and other office software in a group of tools called Lotus Symphony.

U.S. computer giant IBM Corp. launched free downloadable software Tuesday to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Lotus Symphony software -- with Symphony Documents, Symphony Spreadsheets and Symphony Present...

In a clever marketing move that had some of us fooled, IBM revealed today it was doing much more than beginning the process of rebuilding its own applications suite. In fact, Beta 1 of the new Lotus Symphony is already under way.

IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

Because it's free, Lotus Symphony could present a significant challenge to Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite in the market for office productivity software.

The companies offer a content push technology that does not require a separate server for mobile e-mail.

( InfoWorld ) - IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

International Business Machines Corp., worlds second-biggest software maker, will offer some of its Lotus programmes for free, challenging Microsoft Corps dominance in desktop applications.

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In case you missed it, IBM today released a free office productivity suite based on OpenOffice.org called Lotus Symphony. According to News.com's Martin Lamonica: After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing. ...

IBM backs OpenOffice with its own version called IBM Lotus Symphony...

N.C. State University and Insight Racing of Cary have invited the public to an open house Friday evening to show off Lone Wolf, a low-slung Lotus sports car that drives itself.

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Anyone remember Lotus Symphony, the DOS-based follow-up to Lotus 1-2-3? It was certainly not as successful as 1-2-3, by any stretch of the imagination, and its separate components, with the exception of the spreadsheet, naturally, were underpowered at best.

InfoWorld - IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free online service to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

With Lotus Symphony, IBM beefs up its collaboration software portfolio.

( InfoWorld ) - IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite. The name for the suite, Symphony, is the same name IBM used for its first integrated productivity suite, which it offered in the 1980s but which never took off with customers. Mike Rhodin, general manager ...

IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free online service to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

The company expands its software collaboration portfolio.

IBM has just unleashed a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications. Called Lotus Symphony, the free software release includes separate word processor, spreadsheet, and business presentation applications that are squarely targeted at the capabilities of Microsoft Office. As part of IBM's strategy for promoting the Open Document Format (ODF), Symphony builds upon Big Blue's ...

Is the multibillion-dollar cash cow vulnerable at last to alternatives? Google, Yahoo and IBM seem to think so. After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing. IBM on Tuesday announced the release of Lotus Symphony,...

IBM has just unleashed a new enterprise-grade suite of office productivity applications. Called Lotus Symphony, the free software release includes separate word processor, spreadsheet, and business presentation applications that are squarely targeted at the capabilities of Microsoft Office.

Having announced plans to join the OpenOffice project just last week, IBM has now launched its own free office suite, Lotus Symphony. The software currently supports Windows XP, Vista and Linux machines, with a Mac OS version forthcoming; included are three programs, Presentations, Spreadsheets and the Documents word processor. All of these promo...

Sep 18, 2007 3:00 AM (7 hrs ago) From Sybase, Inc., Distributed by PR Newswire

IBM has announced a new suite of applications based on OpenOffice.org named Lotus Symphony. The free set of collaborative office apps is compatible with Microsoft's Office formats, as well as a slew of others, and could challenge Microsoft's market dominance. Read More...

Google’s doing it. So is Sun. That being said, it must have only been a matter of time before someone else followed their leads. What am I talking about? The newest trend for technology companies: offering an office suite of applications for free. IBM is the latest member to the club. IBM announced on Monday it [...]

Because it's free, Lotus Symphony could present a significant challenge to Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite in the market for office productivity software.

Noch mehr Konkurrenz für Microsoft: Die IBM verschenkt ab sofort ein Office-Paket namens "Lotus Symphony".

Desktop suite Lotus Symphony runs on Windows and Linux and supports OpenDocument, PDF and Microsoft Office document formats.

Desktop suite Lotus Symphony runs on Windows and Linux and supports OpenDocument, PDF and Microsoft Office document formats.

( InfoWorld ) - IBM is to offer the world a free word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program in yet another bid to upset the dominance of Microsoft's Office suite.

As part of its investment in the next wave of collaboration technology, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. ebizQ received ...

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Lots of news this morning in the online collaboration and online office suite offerings from Google and Yahoo, as the companies announced the aquisition of the Zimbra collaboration server and software company by Yahoo and then subsequently Google launched its Google Presently presentation software which rivals Microsoft PowerPoint. Now Google has changed the name of its [...]

IBM to Offer Free Office Suite