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Looking ahead to mobilisation sessions at Lotusphere 2010

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So now its the run up to Lotusphere 2010 and once again I'm pleased to see that RIM are a major sponsor, and that the Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections Clients we saw at UKLUG have now been launched. For me this all reflects a continuing partnership between Lotus and RIM around the mobilisation of Lotus-based business enterprise apps.  

Checking through the agenda and Lotusphere has some interesting sessions on mobilisation, and here are a couple I plan to catch:

ID618 'Lotus + BlackBerry = Enterprise Mobility', an overview of Lotus and RIM's partnership, the new Lotus Clients and how they are looking to provide a mobilisation infrastructure. This sessions is presented by Jen Stevenson, Enterprise Technologies Manager for IBM Technologies at RIM.

BP212 'Delivering IBM Lotus Domino to Mobile Devices: Top 10 Mobile Browser Dev Tricks - and More!' with Rob Wunderlich and John Wargo (who's book on BB development Jason Hook previously reviewed on this site).

SHOW113 My colleague here at The Turtle Partnership - Tim Davis - is presenting again on 'Integrating IBM Lotus Domino Data and Applications on Smartphones, BlackBerry's and Apple iPhones'. "If you’re an Admin who needs to understand how to work with Lotus Domino data on a variety of mobile devices or a developer who needs to know how to code a "one size fits all" design re-usable for multiple user interfaces, then don't miss this session!"

We have also issued our BlackBerry Lotusphere sessions app again - and its also now available on BB App World too. IBM Lotus have also produced a Lotusphere sessions app and you can find it over at Lotusphere Online.

It seems to have been a good time for RIM, their last quarterly profits are way up, they shipped a record 10m devices in a single quarter and their share of the critical smartphone sector has increased. Looking ahead its likely that the competition in the smartphone sector will ramp up even more 2010 - its the big growth area in an otherwise moribund mobile market. Well at least in the mature Western markets, I see that China Mobile is now the world's biggest mobile operator but it only has 37% penetration of the vast Chinese rural market. The rise and rise of the mobile phone is pretty awe-inspiring.

And finally......

Does your BlackBerry need spiritual uplift? Well at a special service at St Lawrence Jewry church in London BlackBerrys were blessed as 'a daily working tool', along with laptops and other devices. Its based on an old ceremony where a village's ploughs would be blessed each year.

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