Another chapter in the saga surrounding millions of missing White House emails was written this week, when judge John Facciola ordered the Bush administration to collect and preserve all emails stored in .pst files including data copied onto portable media such as flash drives.

While there are many theories about the missing emails, reaching from government conspiracy to sheer incompetence, I would side with the latter.

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In a move that may bring more business credibility to the iPhone, IBM is expected to announce formally next week at Lotusphere the availability of a mobile version of Notes specifically tailored for the cool Apple gadget.

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Alan Lepofsky just uncovered a neat new feature in Notes 8 that may save some of us from those embarrassing blind carbon copy (bcc) mistakes. The Notes client now automatically removes the reply-to-all option for emails that the recipient received as a blind copy.

“So now in Notes 8 when you are Bcc’d on an email, you can no longer embarrassingly reply to everyone, considering they (everyone but the original sender) did not know you received the email in the first place!”

Careful though, you can still use reply-to-all for that message directly from your inbox.

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Lotus Notes, while being a robust and flexible messaging platform, has always suffered from its little idiosyncrasies on the client. The Notes client has received a dramatic face-lift with version 8, but there is still room for improvement.

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IBM announced this morning the official availability dates for its highly anticipated next version of Notes/Domino. This is truly a miles stone release for IBM that has been years in the making. See also my previous blog posts on this topic:

Notes gets Nip/Tuck’ed

Big Blue is getting some respect

Notes/Domino 8 is hitting the homestretch

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Today is the day that many gadget junkies have been waiting for - Apple’s iPhone is finally going on sale at AT&T wireless stores around the country. Much has been written and reported about its cool features and it will be interesting to see if the fever pitch media hype leading-up to its release can live up to the expectations and real world demands of the common cell phone user.

For many companies currently supporting corporate mobile email through services such as RIM’s Blackberry BES, Microsoft Mobile ActiveSync or Good Technology from Motorola a far different question arises: How will they support the iPhone on their existing infrastructure and what possible security risks does the device pose in the corporate context?

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