Percussion Software introduced version 2.5 of Lyrix, its Lotus Domino content integration product. Lyrix 2.5 will be introduced at the Lotus Advisor LIVE trade show, July 18-20 at the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort, Las Vegas, NV.

MobileVoice, powered by One Voice’s patented voice technology, is a carrier-grade voice solution for voice-dialing, sending and receiving email, voice-to-text messages, mobile conferencing, and voice portal. MobileVoice’s services also contact management synchronization and importing tools for Outlook, Outlook Express, and Lotus Notes.

Open-Xchange has clarified its relationship with Novell and kicked off a new relationship with Red Hat. The deals mean the vendor can now bundle and resell either of the leading Linux operating systems with its Open-Xchange Server. Open-Xchange has the ambition to become one of the top three players in the groupware market within the next few years.

Shalom Carmel has reported a vulnerability in Lotus Domino, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to Domino failing to prompt users for actions before displaying a HTML attachment in a browser. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site when the HTML attachment is opened.

Verizon Wireless has introduced Eudora2go, a service based on the Eudora interface that instantly pushes your email to qualified Get It Now enabled phones. Eudora2go will forward messages from Eudora, Outlook and Lotus Notes/Domino as well as IMAP or POP3 post offices like Google Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

Here’s an opinion piece in the Silicon Valley Watcher about why a Hewlett-Packard/Sun Microsystems combination makes sense. By themselves, those two companies don’t have enough to compete against IBM. Together, they have plenty of synergies, including the fact that HP would gain Sun’s middleware, which is very important against IBM’s WebSphere middleware.

IBM reported its second quarter results with total revenue of $22.3 billion, down 4 percent versus the second quarter of 2004, but up 6 percent without the impact of the divested PC business. Revenues from IBM’s middleware brands, which include WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational products, were $3.0 billion, up 11 percent versus the second quarter of 2004.

Panacya recently released BoxTone 2.0, which features end-to-end visibility into several email environments, including Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, and BlackBerry. Features include organization, location and end-user views of email performance, early-warning monitoring, remote data collection without agent deployment and management, and alerts via voice, images, pagers and email.

Nearly a year after quitting his job as chief technology officer at BEA Systems, Scott Dietzen has resurfaced. He is now serving as president and chief technology officer of little-known California, start-up Liquid System. The company has developed client and server-side software designed to replace enterprise collaboration products such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange

Sprint last week said it has expanded its wireless email services to Java-enabled multimedia mobile devices, giving more customers the ability to access corporate email from their cell phones. PCS Business Connection provides real-time access to Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, POP, and IMAP information, including email messages and attachments, calendars, business directories and personal contacts, desktop documents, and email from Internet accounts.