If you’re running Lotus Notes on Mac OS X, MaineToday.com shows you how to deal with the tiny font whenever you use Notes.

Intellisync Corporation announced that it has been selected as the mobility platform for VIVO, one of the largest CDMA carriers in the world. Vivo Smartmail allows you to wirelessly access personal and enterprise emails based on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, POP3 or IMAP servers.

A number of damaging worms are targeting corporate networks worldwide, with major news outlets CNN, ABC News, the New York Times and the Financial Times in London among the most prominent victims so far. ComputerWeekly.com says variants of the Zotob worm are responsible for the attacks. The worms take advantage of a security hole in Windows 2000.

Baldor Electric has consolidated its hardware to an IBM z990 running Linux that hosts its SAP ERP applications. The company, which makes electric motors, moved off IBM pSeries servers running AIX and is planning to switch applications on its Intel servers to applications that run on the mainframe, including moving a Windows-based mail server to Lotus Domino.

CommonTime believes that smartphones and PDAs will continue to build on their success and popularity with enterprise users. The latest edition of mNotes version 4 will allow you to deploy Lotus Notes applications on your device.

Novell’s Hula Project will bring new applications to email, predicted David Patrick, vice president of open source platforms at Novell. News Factor reports that Novell wants the platform to become a formidable competitor to enterprise collaboration applications including Microsoft Exchange, IBM’s Lotus Notes and Novell’s own GroupWise.

Red Hat remains undecided as to whether it will commercialize some other assets it acquired in the Netscape deal, including messaging and collaboration some say could form the basis of an open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. According to InfoWorld, another question is whether or not it would be easier for Red Hat to expand its partnership with IBM, whose Lotus Workplace is being heavily promoted as an alternative to Exchange.

IBM has expanded Linux support across its collaborative software portfolio with new IBM Workplace offerings. As part of the announcements, IBM is introducing new browser-based messaging software with support for the Firefox 1.0.X browser, and new software that will integrate Lotus Notes access into IBM Workplace Managed Client.

Cenzic’s Intelligent Analysis (CIA) research lab named the top five most serious Web application vulnerabilities for the month of July. Coming in at number five is a vulnerability in Lotus Domino R5/R6 Webmail that allows you to obtain encrypted password hashes for all users.

InfoWorld’s Dave Rosenberg gushes about Xandros. It’s the only product that ships with Codeweavers Crossover office preconfigured which lets you run Windows applications and store files natively in the Linux file system.