iAnywhere Solutions and Intel Corporation announced plans to further the development of mobilized software for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The companies unveiled a toolkit that will enable software developers to deliver applications for SMB mobile computing and Wi-Fi users. The Wi-Fi Toolkit includes Pylon Anywhere, a solution for extending existing Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange infrastructures to mobile and wireless devices.

Stampede Technologies announced its newest version of TurboGold Enterprise Edition — software that helps companies optimize bandwidth and data storage for Web-based, portal and messaging/collaboration applications. Stampede expands its Web acceleration and data storage solutions beyond the Lotus Domino environment. Now, the new TurboGold Enterprise Edition provides acceleration and storage solutions for any Web-enabled application built on J2EE, .Net or used in a portal.

The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA), announced the creation of the CATA Toronto Technology Community (CTTC), a new organization combining the members of the former SMART Toronto Technology Alliance (STTA) and CATA’s established Toronto membership base. The new organization is dedicated to working with other groups to help the growth of Toronto’s technology community, through seminars, networking, provincial and federal government advocacy, and by plugging Toronto into CATA’s national business growth grid.

Metro One Telecommunications announced the immediate availability of its new Voice Email capability as an integral part of its Infone service. This feature allows callers to easily record a message that can be sent to any email address as an audio file. To use the feature, a caller identifies the intended recipient or recipient’s email address, and subject line for the Infone operator. When coupled with My Infone, available email addresses are retrieved automatically from the subscriber’s Infone-synchronized personal database, such as Microsoft Outlook, Palm, or Lotus Notes. The caller records a message that is sent immediately to the recipient as email.

Sigaba announced version 1.2 of Sigaba Secure Instant Messaging, which includes the ability to interoperate with all of the major authentication mechanisms and email applications.

IBM announced it met expectations for its third quarter, posting income of $1.8 billion on revenues of $21.5 billion, an increase of 9 percent from the same time frame in 2002. TechNewsWorld reports that software sales climbed, paced by a 12 percent jump in WebSphere sales, a 14 percent uptick in DB2 sales, a 9 percent rise in Lotus sales and a 25 percent bump in sales of Tivoli software.

Red Earth Software announced that Policy Patrol is successfully blocking spam and adding disclaimers to several Exchange Server 2003 deployments. Policy Patrol is an email-filtering tool that offers advanced anti-spam, anti-virus, content & attachment checking, disclaimers, archiving and reporting. Policy Patrol works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/Exchange 2000/Exchange 5.5, Lotus Domino/Notes and almost any other SMTP mail server. If installed on Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000, Policy Patrol can filter internal as well as external emails.

eWeek takes a look at Kubi Client 1.1 and Kubi Server, collaboration software that runs within Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes. It creates project workspaces, which its calls "Kubi Spaces," where participants can share documents and manage tasks that appear within the email clients.

The Wendover-Global Insight IT Spending Index increased through August by 12% over the average for Q2, indicating that IT sales are firming up a bit. However, there is no clear signal that a robust market is in store over the next two quarters, and the Index is still well below pre-recession peaks. Replacement spending continues, but firms are not yet allocating budget to discretionary IT.

Percussion Software introduces Lyrix, a content integration solution for the reuse of Domino content in other enterprise applications. Lyrix is targeted towards users of Lotus Domino that are deciding between co-existence and migration for each of their Domino applications. For companies with existing Domino applications, Lyrix preserves and increases the value of their investments in Domino content by enabling non-Domino applications to reuse Domino content.