Yahoo has a short article saying Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie’s new company, Groove Networks, sent out press invitations for the Preview Edition of groove.

DominoPro has an article on the new K-station portal introduced at Lotusphere Europe 2000.

4NF announced it has launched Vortex Cluster Management for Domino. Vortex monitors the Cluster Directory every few minutes and checks for databases in the directory that do not have a replica on the local server. When it finds missing replicas Vortex creates them automatically. Vortex also logs any problems it finds in the normal server log file for the administrator to resolve.

Omtool announced it will introduce Genidocs, a confirmed messaging application for the enterprise. According to the press release, Genidocs delivers an encrypted document directly to the recipient and operates seamlessly within a messaging infrastructure such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes, enabling users to deliver confidential, and secure, email over the Internet with delivery notification.

TechWeb has an article on how companies such as Lotus and Novell are trying to extend their LAN-locked products onto the Web and out to customers and partners, where they can offer benefits to users.

The editors of Network Computing picked their choices for the 10 most important products of the decade. Lotus Notes came in at number ten, having defined an entirely new category of business application.

TechWeb News reports Jeff Papows will be named CEO of Maptuit, a company that specializes in location-based services.

Lotus has an article on Kyocera Communication Systems, this year’s Beacon Award Winner for Distinguished Achievement–Asia Pacific.

Lotusphere 2001 conference and hotel registration is now open. The conference will be held in Orlando, on January 14 – 18, 2001 and will feature such topics as collaborative commerce, integrated point solution, e-learning, unified messaging, and new standards like XML.

InternetWeek has an article on Lotus’ release of K-station, software that uses a portal interface to access data dispersed in different enterprise and Web-based applications.