Nokia Maps

This is cool and excellent news indeed,
Navigation on Nokia. For Free, Forever ;) I am sure that brings smiles to all the the Nokia users. However at the moment that support 10 plus devices and additional support will come in future.
For N97 originally not included, the new date is Jan 28th. E71 dates is not released yet.
http://maps.nokia.com/explore-services/ovi-maps

IBM Project Vulcan

Is going to leave everyone to dust. One of the announcements from Lotusphere 2010. Looks like Google Wave, Facebook, Connections, LinkedIn etc and know what, everything to be delivered in Lotus Notes client in what IBM calls Continuity, Convergence, Innovation and New opportunities.
This is definitely going to be a big leap forward in the areas of collaboration and productivity yet supporting all the Notes apps that you had built in the past. I wonder how IBM is able to achieve this sort of backward compatibility but i am sure that it's not an easy task.
Here we go some sample screen shots by far the best through EdBrill.com

IBM Software Technical Certification Day

IBM has conducted a software certification day for all of its partners lacking the relevant certifications on 30th October. They provided the workstations and a friendly lab manager to assist. They also stated that the IBM team will be there to help to ensure that partners have the best opportunity to qualify. But i don't remember seeing anyone though :)
Anyway, I made most from this opportunity and took 2 certifications.

• M13 - IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Sales Mastery
• LOT 955 - IBM WebSphere Portal Deployment and Administration

and cleared both.  Soon, i will be receiving the electronic certification from IBM. Thanks IBM for conducting these and these things will definitely trigger to go for more certifications.

Basics of WebSphere

Good read to understand the WebSphere basics. Oldie but Goodie.

IBM Lotus Knows Campaign

Did you go and see the new Lotus Knows in IBM site? Go ahead and watch it.