Lotus Notes mobility expert CommonTime has teamed with Microsoft to provide a mobility solution offer exclusively targeted at businesses looking to utilize Lotus Notes Domino and System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 solutions.

Providing real-time mobile email, messaging and line of business applications, the combined solution offer will feature Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 solution for security and device management with CommonTime’s industry-leading mobile messaging and Notes database access products, mNotes and mForms.

Learning that your company no longer wants you around is rarely a sudden incident, but a series of subtle events that, in retrospect, most realize they saw coming. For example, long before there is a pink slip, there is often a breakdown in communication.

There are plenty more, ranging from activities that are a little worrisome to those that are clearly going to be a point of no return.

David will be on KBOO-FM 90.7 live in the Portland, Oregon area tomorrow at 10am PST. You can listen live via your browser or visit later and download the MP3.

Upon finding out the name of his interviewer, our already somewhat geeky David began to vibrate. The interviewer’s name is Edison Carder. It’s not exactly Edison Carter (with a T), but it’s close enough for a full-on geekstravaganza. Extra geek points if you know who Edison Carter is, and why being interviewed by someone with even a similar name is cool-cooler than cra-crackers.

In a move that has been long anticipated, IBM will combine its System p and System i server portfolios into one product offering that the company will unite through a common hardware and microprocessor architecture.

IBM is detailing its new portfolio of Power System servers, operating systems and applications at the Common User Group Conference April 2. The new lineup will include two mid-range servers–the IBM Power 520 and 550 Express–along with the JS12 blade. Other high-end systems are expected within a few weeks.

The new portfolio is anchored around IBM’s Power 6 processor, which will form a common hardware architecture for the new systems. While IBM will continue to offer its AIX operating system–the company’s version of Unix–and continued support for Linux, the i5/OS operating system will be renamed as the "i" OS.

Dell plans to cut more jobs than the 8,800 it earlier announced and has already eliminated 5,500 positions, Chief Executive Michael Dell said Thursday.

The CEO said the company will end the year with lower operating expenses than in the previous year. Dell, speaking to analysts at company headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, said job cuts are continuing in the current quarter and will exceed the target announced in May 2007.

IBM Lotus Sametime Advanced is the new and exciting product joining the Lotus Sametime family. This article illustrates how Lotus Sametime Advanced allows your organization to enhance real-time collaboration and decision making by extending its instant messaging capabilities.

David’s going to be on CKWR-FM98.5 this evening at 6:05PM in Waterloo, Ontario. You can listen live via your Web browser.

IBM’s ban from all new federal work stems from an $84 million Environmental Protection Agency contract the company lost last year and is protesting. The EPA last week temporarily banned IBM from receiving any new government contracts while it investigates "potential activities involving a procurement." IBM said it is also cooperating with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which served grand jury subpoenas seeking documents and testimony relating to interactions between agency and IBM employees.

According to Kaspersky’s Senior Virus Analyst Alexander Gostev, March 2008 was the most peaceful month we’ve seen for quite some time. All the representatives of the Zhelatin (Storm Worm) and Warezov families have disappeared from the rankings. Nyxem.e has fallen ten places, and is now in thirteenth place. Worms from the NetSky family have come to fill the void created by the absence of new epidemics, with three of the five programs re-entering the rankings in March belonging to this family.

When it comes to technology, it’s back to basics for 2008–that means security, disaster recovery and consolidating infrastructure–with dropping interest in extra goodies such as increasing business efficiency or improving work force productivity, according to a new report.

The Forrester Research report, "2008 SMB IT Budgets North America: It’s Back to Basics," came out on March 28. In its research, Forrester found that for companies with less than 1,000 employees, it’s most important to ensure that IT shops are running smoothly.