HELP Software announced the availability of Power Tools 2.17. Power Tools is a set of administrative tools for Lotus Notes and Domino. This version brings the number of utilities available to 42.

Information Week has an article on the race between Microsoft and Lotus in the field of enterprise-wide knowledge management. According to the article, the result of this heated competition is a rich set of knowledge-management capabilities for business customers in the form of workflow, repositories, and integration features. The article then goes on to compare the advantages of Lotus Notes and Domino versus the upcoming Exchange 2000.

TechWeb News reports that the Internet security company ICSA.net has announced it will be expanding its anti-virus certification-testing suite to include Lotus Notes because of the increased spread of Internet viruses through email.

PalmPower has once again scooped the entire industry with the first review of the new Palm m100 and details of the new Palm VIIx. Although other news organizations, uh, leaked information to the public earlier, we at PalmPower have been extremely careful to abide by our agreement with Palm not to divulge any original information until 3:01am EST, today, August 7th. And that’s exactly what we did. At approximately 3:06am today, our intrepid editors uploaded the first in-depth review, anywhere, on the Palm m100. At approximately 3:10am, we updated our mobile edition, so folks downloading PalmPower to their handhelds can read all about the Palm m100 over breakfast. At exactly the same time, we updated our news feeds so our thousands of affiliates will have the latest Palm news and article information on their Web sites. And at approximately 3:11am, we sent a PalmPower Special Report to all our readers and to members of the press, describing the Palm m100 and the Palm VIIx. Once all that was done, we checked out the Web sites of our competitors and found that not one had gotten a review (or any additional information) up in the deep, dark middle of the night. So read PalmPower and read all about it.

InfoWorld has an article on the importance of document management, saying the effective management of everyday business documents is crucial to an organization’s bottom line. The article takes a look at the benefits of implementing a Web content management solution.

Midrange Computing reports that Lotus is getting ready to announce the latest release of its OfficeVision/400 to the Lotus Notes migration tool. According to the article, Lotus has added key calendaring and data-merge functions, and other new features are expected in release 2.3.

ZDNet reports that IBM plans to release open-source code for a Linux edition of its emerging Sash Weblications development environment and Weblication plug-ins that will include a Lotus Notes client. At a press event, IBM officials said that Sash Weblications is meant to let non-programmers such as Web site designers create complex applications integrating middleware like IBM’s MQSeries and DB2 database.

DominoPro has an article on a hacker turned professional security consultant who demonstrated how an intruder could break into a Notes account and use it to compromise other users’ passwords in an organization. According to the article, Lotus countered by saying the attack is a sophisticated process and would have to come from inside an organization’s own computer workstations.

SearchDomino has an article on a company called Pistolstar and its latest offering, Message Link for Lotus Notes and Domino. According to the article, the technology allows the user to connect any alpha series electronic moving display sign to the serial port on a Domino server. Users can then open the custom database and post messages that appear on the LCD or other type of sign.

Computerworld warning of a security risk in Lotus Notes and Domino. The article reports that Dutch engineers found a pair of holes in the password encryption and the security on public versions of the address list. Trust Factory B.V., a Netherlands-based security consulting firm, said Web-based systems are particularly vulnerable.