IBM's Lotus Notes Traveler collaboration software will now run on mobile devices based on Google's Android operating system. The Lotus support for Android was one of the several announcements made by IBM in the mobility software arena. The company also formally opened a software development lab in Littleton, Mass. IBM has also unveiled WebSphere CEA Mobile Widgets, software that retailers, insurance companies and other businesses can use to assemble transaction-processing applications for mobile devices. Steve Mills, senior vice president and head of IBM’s Software Group, in a presentation said spending by the mobile communications industry for application development, analytics, traffic management, information storage, unified communications, application management and business process integration technology would reach $250 billion by 2015. "We see a lot of opportunity out there and a lot of money that’s going to be spent and we'd like it to be spent with IBM," he said. |