X1 Technologies, Inc. announced expanded support for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino with the release of the X1 Content Connector V1.3 for Symantec Enterprise Vault. Content Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault allows users to search, preview and act upon archived Lotus Notes and Domino email, contacts and email attachments.

Jumpstar announced the launch of its hosted e-learning management system (eLMS) and the debut of end user courses for IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Connections and IBM Lotus Sametime.

IBM’s LotusLive is described as a portfolio of integrated Internet-hosted services for social networking and collaboration in workplaces. All of IBM’s Lotus "cloud" offerings are now located on the LotusLive website.

Sherpa Software announced Compliance Attender for Lotus Notes users to help businesses enforce corporate data policies and meet intensifying regulatory requirements. Sherpa Software Compliance Attender intercepts, archives and filters inbound and outbound email as well as internal messages in real time.

Our own David Gewirtz has published on CNN.com again:

It can be breathtaking to watch the ultimate powers in America taunt each other like children in a schoolyard. Amid all the excitement over our brand-new President, there’s an epic battle going on to preserve the history of our outgoing one.

On Friday, United States Magistrate Judge John Facciola issued an emergency preservation order to the White House, demanding the Bush administration search computers for email records and turn over all email records and computer media to the National Archives.

Late Friday night, the White House responded with what was essentially, "Nyah, nyah, nyah, you can’t make me."

Read the full article. For the record, that’s six times David’s been on CNN.com in about a week and a half. But who’s counting?

Genius Inside will be displaying the latest versions of its project management software at Lotusphere 2009.

• Genius Project Version 2.0 and Genius Project4Domino Version 6.0

* A new Domino Timesheet Reporting Add-On for RIM Blackberry users.

* Spanish language versions of Genius Project and Genius Project4Domino.

NXPowerLite now integrates with IBM’s Lotus Notes email client. NXPowerLite 3.7 allows Lotus Notes users to reduce the size of their email attachments, whilst keeping them in their original format.

PistolStar will showcase Password Power 8.5 and Web Set Password 8.5 at Lotusphere 2009. Password Power offers authentication redirection using Microsoft Active Directory to enable ID-less Lotus Notes client access. PistolStar is introducing Web Set Password browser-based authentication security capabilities for IBM WebSphere Portal and Microsoft SharePoint.

To beef up the Bluehouse social-networking platform, IBM is set to buy Outblaze, a large Hong Kong application service provider.

E-tiquette columnist "Mac Manners" takes a half-serious look at some gripes about e-mail – like that forwarded message where we can’t find the message for the forwarded headers – with helpful tips on how to avoid such problems in the future.