Studio 848 Inc. announced the release of Version 6.2 of Bill Power and Bill Power Plus! time and billing software. Bill Power is time and billing software that works with calendars such as Lotus Organizer, Microsoft Outlook, and Symantec Act!. Bill Power loads data from these calendars, sorts and summarizes billable entries, and provides full-featured invoice and timesheet formatting, printing, archiving, data export (to spreadsheets, databases, and QuickBooks), and email capabilities.

Lotus posted this story on its Web site about how Lotus Notes and Domino met the needs of a company called Infinitec.

PC Week recently tested the sneak preview release of Domino R5 for Linux. Here’s what they had to say about it.

GoAmerica Communications announced instant POP3 email access for the 950 Interactive Messenger and the Blackberry from Research in Motion. GoAmerica subscribers now can manage their POP3 email accounts, including POP3 access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, from a two-way pager.

For all of you Inspector Gadget fans, ZDNN has this story on a London firm which offers encrypted self-destructing email.

CNN has this story of an Illinois police department that is implementing Lotus Notes. The police are planning to use Notes to file reports from their patrol cars.

ZATZ:Pure Internet Publishing (that’s us!) and AvantGo, Inc. today announced the availability of the world’s first mobile magazine network, available mutually through ZATZ.com and AvantGo.com. ZATZ publishes PalmPower Magazine, Windows CE Power Magazine and DominoPower Magazine. This is the first time that a complete network of magazines has been made available for mobile device users.

Lawson Software announced the availability of Lawson Insight II Open Component Solutions for Lotus Domino and Lawson Insight II Information Office for Lotus Domino. Lawson Software and Lotus offer Web browser and Lotus Notes users real-time access to e-business software applications, personal productivity and collaborative applications.

SmartReseller news reports that Novell has begun beta testing its Windows 2000 client for NetWare servers. Accorsing to the article, Novell plans to ship the client for NetWare 30 to 60 days after the launch of Windows 2000.

VARBusiness has this story on how VARs can become application service providers.