PC Magazine has this review of PGP Desktop 9. New in version 9, it handles security tasks at the network level, encrypting and decrypting within the POP3/SMTP, IMAP4, Exchange, or Lotus Notes email stream.

Information Week reports that Google plans to unveil a formal partner program that targets solution providers and integrators with expertise in legacy mainframe, government and Microsoft applications.

IBM has set up its first Asia Pacific Lotus Technical Support Center. Initially, it will offer back office support to IBM customers in Asia Pacific for Lotus software. This may extend to the other five brands it has in the business process area, including Web Sphere, DB 2, Tivoli and Rational.

Computing Magazine takes a look at IBM’s Extreme Blue summer internship program. Interns on Extreme Blue are grouped with three peers and handed a real-world project, with the expectation that their work will go on to become part of IBM’s product offerings.

IBM vice president of Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Products Ken Bisconti told the folks at ZDnet that IBM not only has an Open Documents Format-compliant solution in the works, but that it will also be released by the end of the year. Apparently, that solution is IBM’s Workplace.

MSNBC reports that Microsoft’s seven divisions will be merged into three groups — Platform Products & Services, which includes Windows, MSN, and the Server & Tools division; the Business group, which includes Office and Microsoft Business Solutions; and the Entertainment & Devices division, which includes Xbox and the mobile devices group. Microsoft also announced that chief technical officer Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes, will expand his role to guide Microsoft’s efforts to expand its Web services business.

Proposion announced the availability of Proposion Portal Migrator, a tool to transfer Lotus Notes content into SharePoint environments. Portal Migrator allows organizations to retain knowledge histories in Lotus Notes while taking advantage of new strategic collaborative environments like SharePoint Windows 2003 or Windows SharePoint Services 2003.

Symantec reported in its biannual Internet Security Threat Report that widespread attacks by hackers seeking notoriety are becoming less popular, as cyber-criminals instead focus on targeted attacks for profit.

PromaWare has released PW dashboard for business process automation on the Lotus Domino platform. PW dashboard is an integrated multi-area management system, features including project portfolio management, project management, program management, knowledge management, task management, event management and quality management.

Manageinfra, the IT Infrastructure services division of Cybernet Software Systems (CSS), has teamed up with IBM India to provide Lotus Notes/Domino platform services to Indian companies.