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• IBM ConnectED 2015: Guest speaker announced
• IBM ConnectED 2015: IT specialist developer - why attend?
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Agenda
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Tracks
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Session Preview Tool
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Connected 2015 Conference Guide
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Get Social
• IBM ConnectED 2015: Travel and hotel information
• Announcing the 2015 Class of IBM Champions for ICS!
• IBM Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (requires Notes developer)

• IBM Launches z13 Mainframe -- Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built
• IBM Opens First Cloud Center in Mexico
• Hands on with Microsoft's HoloLens
• Microsoft unveils Windows 10
• Big asteroid to fly by Earth Monday
• Are iPhone users smarter than Android users?
• Is proton therapy the 'magic bullet' for cancer?
• Sitting will kill you, even if you exercise
• X-ray method helps decipher ancient scrolls
• Billionaires battle for the Internet in space
• What went wrong with Google Glass
• The next phase in virtual reality

• DAOS reports including Logical, Physical and DAOS size
• Mailbox/DB document count report (useful to identify mailbox/DBs which require archiving)
• Full Text Index reports (useful to optimize server performance by identifying non-critical mailbox/DBs using "Immediate" frequency which should ideally be changed to "Hourly" or "Daily)
• Mailbox delegation reports (useful for messaging migrations)
• Mailbox user activity reports (useful to identify mailboxes which can be retired)
• Nested group expander for group troubleshooting (useful to identify mailbox/DB access issues with nested groups)
• Mailbox owner reports including changing owner ACL (useful to force mailbox access of all mailbox users to Editor)

IBM CONNECTED 2015: GUEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCED
Master of the impossible! Announcing guest speaker Philippe Petit. IBM ConnecedED attendees will see Social Business from a different perspective with Philippe Petit on January 26 in Orlando, Florida. Philippe Petit is a French high-wire artist who gained fame in 1974 for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of 7 August.
 

IBM CONNECTED 2015: IT SPECIALIST DEVELOPER - WHY ATTEND?
Fact: In 2014, the worldwide penetration of smartphones hit 1.75 billion, or 1 out
of every 5 people on the planet. In addition, 80 percent of time spent on these
mobile devices is spent using applications.

IBM CONNECTED 2015: AGENDA
Registration Open: Saturday, January 24 2-8pm, Sunday, January 25 7-9pm, Master Class Sessions: 1-6pm, Welcome Reception: 6:30-7:30pm TechnOasis, 7:30-9pm Swan Lake Terrace, Breakfast: Monday, January 26 6:30am-7:45am, Registration Open: 7am-5pm, Opening General Session 8am-9:30am

IBM CONNECTED 2015: TRACKS
The sessions for ConnectED have been selected to satisfy both the business leaders and the IT specialists alike with high level strategy sessions in the Strategy and Innovation track to deep technical best practices sessions in tracks like the app dev and infrastructure tracks. Please look deeper into each track as you prepare to assemble your personalized experience – there are many great take-aways found in each track, each activity, each booth, and each interaction at ConnectED 2015.

IBM CONNECTED 2015: SESSION PREVIEW TOOL
A comprehensive listing of ConnectED Tracks and Sessions.

IBM CONNECTED 2015: CONNECTED 2015 CONFERENCE GUIDE
The ONE place to learn about IBM Collaboration and Digital Experience Solution -- We are excited to welcome you to this four-day event at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, Florida.

IBM CONNECTED 2015: GET SOCIAL
Be part of the conversation! Engage with our event speakers and subject matter experts. Hear what our thought leaders and influencers are saying. And join the conversations around IBM ConnectED 2015. Use #IBMConnectED in your Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts and be sure to register your blog.

IBM CONNECTED 2015: TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION
Due to the proximity of the IBM ConnectED event, the hotels have resumed control of all hotel inventory. All new reservations and changes to existing reservations must be made with the hotels directly. The hotels are currently processing the IBM Connected Rooming lists, so that the reservations appear in the hotel’s systems. If you are calling to make changes to existing reservations please wait until Friday January 9th to contact the hotel. You may contact the hotel at the following numbers: Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Toll free in the (800) 227-1500, Outside the US (407) 934-4000

ANNOUNCING THE 2015 CLASS OF IBM CHAMPIONS FOR ICS!
After 8 weeks of evaluating close to 500 nominations for almost 200 outstanding community members, the Selection Committee is proud to announce the 2015 Class of IBM Champions for ICS. These individuals are non-IBMers who evangelize IBM solutions, share their knowledge and help grow the community of professionals who are focused on social business and IBM Collaboration Solutions. We're looking forward to work with this fantastic group of community leaders!

IBM NOTES MAIL MERGE FROM A MICROSOFT EXCEL SPREADSHEET (REQUIRES NOTES DEVELOPER)
LotusScript agents to allow a user to create, preview and send personalized mail-merge emails through Lotus Notes to a set of recipients based on Excel spreadsheet data. This function was developed to address business and environmental concerns in sending paper-based, personalised mass mail, and to overcome several practical limitations in using Microsoft Office’s built-in mail merge email function with Notes email clients; such as: requiring DAMO, Word and Outlook to be installed, and only supporting attachment-based or plaintext emails. Dependencies and Limitations: (1) Notes Client and Excel must be installed on users machine. Tested with Lotus Notes 7.x/8.5.x Client on Windows XP/7, with Microsoft Excel 2003/7/10 OLE. (2) The agents are designed to be installed in a classic Domino 8.5 Mail template (mail85.ntf) or Domino 7 Mail template (mail7.ntf), or similar. (3) The Use "Common" import line in the 'Create Mail Merge' agent code may only work in English-language Domino mail databases. For other languages check your respective Script Library name. For example, change the line to: Use "Common_ja-JP" if your template is Japanese language to get it to compile.

• Broadcast creation via email client. No special access or training requirements
• Dynamic recipient sources: Domino Directory, Notes databases, SQL, LDAP
• Extensive workflow-based review features for broadcast approval/rejection pre-delivery
• Flexible delivery scheduling (immediate, date/time, per time zone, and repetitive)
• Author aliasing, custom formatting, reply misuse prevention
• High performance delivery architecture
• Mail merge personalization and HTML/MIME option

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IBM Opens First Cloud Center in Mexico
As part of its $1.2 billion investment to expand its cloud services, IBM today announced the opening of its first cloud center in Mexico. Located in Querétaro, near Mexico City, the new facility strengthens IBM Cloud’s presence in Latin America by offering data residency within the region, even more redundancy in the Americas, and the complete SoftLayer platform, enabling customers to create their ideal fully integrated, scalable cloud computing environment in Mexico.

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Hands on with Microsoft's HoloLens
It's not a peyote-induced hallucination, but a genuinely impressive illusion created by Microsoft's new augmented-reality goggles, HoloLens. One second, you're looking at the flat surface of a real wooden table. Then, you're gazing straight through it, past small trees, tiny confused zombies, and layers of earth into a deep hole filled with animated lava.

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Microsoft unveils Windows 10
Microsoft has lifted the curtain much higher on Windows 10, showing off a whole slew of new features that will be coming to PCs and phones later this year. At its Redmond, Washington, headquarters on Wednesday, Microsoft detailed how its new operating system will work across desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones -- oh, and it's going to use holograms.

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Big asteroid to fly by Earth Monday
A big asteroid will fly by Earth on Monday, but NASA says don't worry -- we'll be safe. The asteroid is called 2004 BL86. It'll come about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Earth, or about three times as far away as the moon.

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Are iPhone users smarter than Android users?
Are you an iPhone user? Congratulations! You're probably smarter than the Android owner sitting next to you. A new study conducted by online advertising network Chitika found that states with more college graduates tend to also have higher iPhone sales.

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Is proton therapy the 'magic bullet' for cancer?
ven after decades of battling one of the world's biggest killers, the treatment of cancer is still an inexact science. Successful methods such as chemotherapy work by killing the cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy tissue.

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Sitting will kill you, even if you exercise
One of your favorite activities may actually be killing you. Our entire modern world is constructed to keep you sitting down. When we drive, we sit. When we work at an office, we sit. When we watch TV, well, you get the picture.

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X-ray method helps decipher ancient scrolls
In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Almost 2,000 years later, researchers may be on the brink of reading some of the charred scrolls damaged in the eruption. The scrolls, which were buried in a Herculaneum library and excavated 260 years ago, are easily damaged or destroyed by unwrapping, so researchers have been unable to read them without risk.

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Billionaires battle for the Internet in space
A handful of ultra-rich guys are racing one another to deliver the Internet from the sky. The latest is SpaceX, which just got $1 billion in funding from Google and Fidelity. Some of that money will be used to bolster CEO Elon Musk's plan to launch hundreds of Internet-signal satellites into space.

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What went wrong with Google Glass
Google seems to have stumbled on that simple fact last week. The tech world was surprised by an announcement that on January 19, Google Glass will be withdrawn from the marketplace. Sales didn't catch fire. Apparently, people didn't have much use for it. Google may have needed to stop and listen to the needs and emotions of people in the everyday world of consumers.

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The next phase in virtual reality
Place both hands flat on your chest, just below the clavicle, and say something out loud. Feel that? Every time you speak, your chest cavity vibrates. Physicist Shahriar Afshar thinks recreating that feeling is the key to making video games, movies and music more immersive, emotional experiences. He's created a vest called KOR-FX that plugs into an audio jack and turns sound into chest-rumbling vibrations, mimicking what your vocal cords do.