Notes push e-mail coming to iPhone

From InfoWorld: The newest version of Lotus Notes and Domino will push e-mail, contacts, and calendar items to iPhone users.

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 includes a few other incremental updates to functionality. But the main new feature is the addition of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol in Lotus Notes Traveler, the software that supports replication of Notes e-mail, calendars and contacts to smartphones.

IPhone users today can check their Notes e-mail through an optimized Web site. However, they must refresh to get new messages. "Web-based access has been good," said Ed Brill, director of end-user messaging and collaboration for IBM Lotus software. "But push e-mail is something people wanted."

Early last year, Apple licensed ActiveSync so that businesses could push their corporate Exchange e-mail messages to iPhones. Since the ActiveSync client is already embedded in the iPhone, adding ActiveSync to the Traveler product was a good way to enable push Notes e-mail to the iPhone, he said.

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