Happy 10th birthday, Notes R5
This week, I think, marks the 10th birthday of Lotus Notes R5. I say “think” because I can’t remember the exact date, but I know that it shipped very late in Q1 of 1999.
I remember Lotus Notes R5 very …
Month: March 2009
LCTY ’09 guest speakers
The guest speakers for the Manchester and London events have been confirmed, but I’m not saying who they are. For the third year running I suggested Harry Hill and have always been told he’d be too expensive. This year (presumably …
Fulham 2, ManYoo 0
On a day where the Spuds almost eliminated their relegation concerns with a win over Chelski, a day when Arsenal took another step towards cementing 4th place (best we can hope for) with a win over the increasingly doomed-looking Newcastle, …
iPhone OS 3.0
Before I watched the preview video, there was one big feature which was being Twittered and talked about… copy / cut and paste. No way. Imagine that, being able to copy some text and paste it elsewhere. Those whacky …
BlackBerry 8900 test drive
The nice people at RIM have loaned me a 8900 (also known as the Javelin, but also as the new Curve) to take a look, and here’s a quick overview. Is it the replacement of the 8300 series (the original …
Social sites eclipse e-mail use
A couple of interesting articles on the Beeb’s news site caught my eye this week, both of which had the same basic premise… that social networking sites are overtaking e-mail as a communication tool. A couple of years there was …
Instant messaging etiquette
Over here in IBM-land we’re big users of instant messaging. The Sametime solution has a daily average concurrent connection statistic that is bigger than most companies and even some small nations… 170,000 people logged on.
Yesterday my frolleague Mark Holmes …
Doing cool things with Notes 8.5
I’m actually now using a beta of IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1, but that’s not important. I thought I’d update you on a couple of cool things I’ve done with some of the new (and existing) capabilities.
Firstly, Notes 8.5 has …