Transend Corporation announced the availability of ConnectorWare IMPORT 4.0 for HP OpenMail/cc:Mail, an upgrade to its utility for migrating HP OpenMail users from cc:Mail clients to Microsoft Outlook. The utility imports cc:Mail archives and mobile folders into Outlook personal folders (.pst files) and cc:Mail private Internet addresses and distribution lists directly into the Outlook Contacts or Personal Address Book. Addresses are converted for use with HP OpenMail.

ZDNN has this story about Gary Norris, the IBM executive who may have provided the Department of Justice the smoking gun it needed in Microsoft’s antitrust trial.

Cipher Systems announced the launch of their flagship knowledge management (KM) product, Knowledge.Works, and intranet groupware solution for competitive intelligence, IntelAssist, based on IBM middleware. Through a development and marketing initiative with IBM, Cipher’s offerings are integrated and bundled with IBM Suite for Windows NT, Lotus Notes and Domino, and Intelligent Miner for Text products.

Just in time for the Stanley Cup Finals, Network World Fusion has this story on how Lotus Notes is helping the National Hockey League’s 28 teams share data over its main network. Go Dallas!

Lotus has posted the second beta of Domino Media Connection Services (DMCS) for RealSystem G2. New for DMCS beta 2 is an online multimedia tutorial which describes all the features of DMCS and demonstrates its application development capabilities.

WORLDxCHANGE Communications announced plans to open up to 500 Points of Presence (POPs) worldwide by the end of the year and 1,000 POPs worldwide by the end of 2000. The WxC internet business is powered by an IBM AS/400e model 720 server running Lotus Domino 5.0. This gives WORLDxCHANGE customers full internet capability including on-line ordering, customer service, and account management.

The San Jose Mercury News has this story about the latest tesimony from the Microsoft antitrust trail. Tesimony from IBM executive Gary Norris describes how IBM’s relationship with Microsoft cooled after IBM bought Lotus.

IBM showed off the newest uses of its ViaVoice technology. According to TechWeb, IBM hopes to incorporate the technology into Lotus Notes.

VeriSign is introducing a PKI services package for Microsoft Exchange that allows Exchange’s messaging directory to track the digital certificates used to encode and decode e-mail.

IBM program director Garry Norris testified that Microsoft wrote into IBM’s Windows 95 Market Development Agreement that IBM would receive a more favorable per-copy licensing price for Windows 95 if it would agree to hold off for six months to a year from promoting Lotus SmartSuite. PC Week has the details of this story.