Casahl Technology announced it will stream daily audio and video demonstrations of its Replic-Action and ecKnowledge products. Participants can register by visiting Casahl’s Web site and clicking on the "free training" icon. Webcasts are scheduled at 11 AM PST and topics repeat on a weekly basis.

ZDNet’s John Taschek talks about why he thinks XML is failing. In the article, he says that XML’s in trouble because it is getting more popular.

Lotus is moving beyond Domino and getting into the Teamware arena with QuickPlace 2.0.

Lotus plans a fall release for Bluejay, an extension of its Domino messaging and Web application platform. It will feature interoperability between Lotus Domino and Microsoft Office.

etrieve, Inc. premiered its M3 (mobile message management) service that allows users to listen to their email when away from the office. etrieve’s M3 service targets the cell phone to let you manage office email from any location. The service works with any phone and is available today for users of Microsoft Outlook email or with POP3-accessible accounts such as Yahoo, MindSpring, MSN, CompuServe and others. Support for Lotus Notes and Eudora will be available in the summer.

Lotus is offering a tip on the use of Bookmarks to gain instant access to all important databases, mail files, Web links, and applications you need. This tool works with Lotus Notes and Domino R5.

PC Week Online reports Lotus Development Corp. will soon have completed two versions of Notes that give mobile users access to home office data. Both Mobile Notes and iNotes are due out by the end of June. They promise remote email checking from a variety of devices and also allow users to check calendars and access address books.

Alis Technologies introduced a new connector that lets Lotus applications such as Notes, Domino, Sametime, and others work with Alis’ Gist-In-Time language-comprehension solution for understanding foreign-language documents. The Alis connector works with the new Lotus Translation Component (LTC) to link Lotus applications to Alis’ Gist-In-Time solution.

Information Week has this brief item on Lotus Notes Release 5 Portal Builder. The Portal Builder lets you customize the interface to Lotus Notes Release 5

InfoWorld has this article on Lotus Translation Components 2.0. The software connects Domino to machine translation engines such as IBM’s WebSphere application servers.