IBM and Research In Motion are taking mobile work far beyond email by delivering to mainstream business professionals <A HREF="http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=1550">the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus collaboration software</A> and information on demand on the BlackBerry platform.
The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the familiar, intuitive interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business, at a time when eMarketer forecasts that mobile social networking will grow from 82 million users in 2007 to over 800 million worldwide by 2012.