NetworkWorld has an article on The Novell Internet Messaging System (NIMS) 2.6, which now supports Wireless Markup Language and global system for mobile communications standards.

InfoWorld has an article on IBM’s coming announcement of its WebSphere Extended Personalization suite, "designed to help developers more easily build customized Web pages that provide their organizations a more distinct look and feel to their Web sites than those of their competitors, increasing their capability of retaining users."

First Hop Ltd. has released its newest product, Escio Message Gateway (EMG), a messaging solution that provides flexible and operator-independent routing of messages between mobile terminals and mobile services.

ThinAirApps, Inc. announced the availability of ThinAir Server 1.2. The new version includes feature and performance enhancements. ThinAir Server gives enterprises the ability to access Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino groupware data, including email, calendars, and address books from any Palm, Pocket PC, RIM, or Symbian handheld, or any Internet-ready mobile phone.

EarthWeb has an article on Novell

Macromedia Inc announced the Macromedia Web Learning Studio, the complete authoring solution for online learning. The studio includes Macromedia Authorware 5.2, a new version of the authoring product for online learning, with Web authoring standards such as Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Dreamweaver. The integrated authoring studio enables developers, instructional designers, and subject matter experts to create and deploy standards-based learning applications for delivery on the Web, corporate intranets, and via CD-ROMs.

DominioPro also has an article on the IBM Small Business Suite for Linux which includes IBM’s DB2 UDB, WebSphere Application Server, and Lotus Domino 5.0.4 as well as Domino Designer.

DominoPro has an another article in its series on Domino R4 to R5 migration. This one is on upgrading clients and applications to use the new Notes and Domino R5 features.

TechWeb News has an article on Microsoft’s announcement that SharePoint is due to ship in the first half of next year. According to the article, the software promises to make collaboration easier for workgroups.

A fellow by the name of Clay Shirky has written an excellent explanation of P2P (peer-to-peer) computing like that used in Napster. If you’d like to get a good handle on what P2P actually is (and how to tell it when you’re staring it right in the face), read this article published in DaveNet.