Hardware Zone takes a look at the Siemens CX75 Multimedia phone. It has a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with video functionality. With Bluetooth connectivity, you can connect to a PC or a printer and print your own photos. The CX75 also has an integrated organizer that can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

CertifiedMail and EasyLink announced that they are partnering to deliver secure fax services. CertifiedMail’s Secure Messaging System offers integration with email clients such as Outlook, Lotus Notes and GroupWise through an embedded Send Certified button.

Martin LaMonica’s blog says that there’s a minor brouhaha brewing in a remote corner of IBM land over the company’s alleged mislabeling of a product as "open source." TechTarget and vnunet report on how IBM angered iSeries customers by making a once free and supposedly open-source tool proprietary.

CNet reports that IBM’s Lotus division will use industry standards to loosen Microsoft’s grip on desktop software. The company’s strategy is to maintain its current Notes and WebSphere portal customers by offering upgrades while introducing its Workplace suite of standards-based, componentized collaboration tools.

Here’s an article about TNTExpress, which using IT Guru to overcome network bandwidth problems. The company’s network provides mainframe access, Web front-ends for new applications, intranet access, datawarehousing, SAP and the Lotus Notes.

Personal Computer World has this review of PK Securezip Server 8.1. It includes the ability to protect files and folders using a command line interface. The package is available across Windows and Unix/Linux. It can be configured to automatically encrypt particular file types and can be integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes email clients.

IBM said it will buy DWL Inc. DWL software manages master data records that link together all related client data. It’s built to run on top of IBM WebSphere.

The Radicati Group’s latest study, IBM Lotus Messaging Software, Market Analysis, 2005-2009, found that Lotus Domino’s current market share of 23 percent (88.3 million mailboxes) is projected to drop to 13 percent (68 million mailboxes) by the end of 2009.

Scalix Corporation announced a wireless solution designed to extend its email and calendaring software to mobile devices. Scalix is competing on a different basis than RIM and Good Technologies. Tech News World reports that its competition is Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, both proprietary solutions, both of which already offer a wireless component.

This article from Information Week is about wireless email. The challenge for IT is determining which users really need it, how best to manage and secure it, and what delivery architecture and devices to use.