QKom is offering you a chance to win a BlackBerry PlayBook. You create an app using the free personal edition of soapgate Q!, which supports up to 3 named users, and submit it prior to March 31. Apps must meet the requirements of BlackBerry App World.

Henning Schmidt says FixPack 2 has gone gold. This means it will be released in the next few days. Henning has posted information on the SPRs included in this fix pack.

Darren Duke has posted some information on HotFix 5 for Quickr Connectors. The hotfix is available for download from Fix Central.

Bob Balaban offers part 1 of a series on how Notes and Domino handle the conversion from MIME to Notes documents and back.

RIM has announced plans to implement a free, cloud-based hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Service, running the BES Express software, for Microsoft Office 365 users.

Ediscovery searches may require some changes to Notes databases before such searches can be successfully run. This article from Sherpa Software provides some information on what changes might be needed.

Karsten Lehmann continues this series of articles on using XPages with "Log data changes using beans and the DataObject interface". Code and a sample database are included.

Glenn Kline provides a couple of scenarios of a portal in use – without Ajax and with Ajax – and explains the difference.

Mary Beth Raven is requesting you take a short survey to help the Lotus User Experience Research team evaluate the ease of use for LotusLive. The study is open until April 18. No user name or password is required to take the survey.

Carl Tyler has posted a page of icons, published by Microsoft, that will also work for Sametime. He’s included a link to let you download a copy of the file.