She said mobile users were a potentially important market for Lotus and predicted that within two to three years, the number of non-PC devices connected to the Internet will outstrip the number of connected PCs.
Jobs said that while iChat is "AOL blessed", users won't be required to subscribe to the ISP.iChat features dynamic buddy lists and automatically generates a list based on users connected via wired and wireless networks.
The new product, called BizTalk Accelerator for Financial Services, is a component of Microsoft BizTalk Server, software designed to help companies link different computing systems together to share data and conduct transactions.
The products - a long-anticipated update to Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, and the latest release of the company's BizTalk Server business integration software - are set to begin testing this month.
Microsoft has officially launched BizTalk Server 2006, and outlined tighter integration between the networking tool and the latest version of its CRM software - CRM 3.0 - which was launched last year.
Around 260,000 NHS staff use NHSmail, which, although it is accessible from any internet-connected computer, is a secure system for sending confidential patient information. Martin Goodman, managing director for public sector business at Cable...