IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) are taking mobile work far beyond email by delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus(R) collaboration software and information on demand on the market-leading BlackBerry(R) platform.

IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced financing opportunities to help customers access an entire new category of servers uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers.

Web 2.0 Expo -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers.

Today Flickr (Yahoo) introduced its online video launching service, which allows its premium users to upload video clips of up to 150MB to their Flickr portfolio. Where YouTube rules the online video world, and Hulu providing a close competition, does Flickr Video have a chance at all??

Cisco released a study on the use of video and Web 2.0 technology in businesses worldwide. The study revealed that as consumer adoption of video and Web 2.0 has grown, companies are increasingly interested in using video to help grow their businesses, reach new customers, increase collaboration between their employees and look for more environmentally conscious means of communicating.

After over a year of development, testing and refining, online video service Hulu launches Wednesday and viewers will get to chance to see if it lives up to all the hullabaloo.

Today at Lotusphere, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making for an increasingly virtual, global workforce.

Opera Software, the only company to put the Web on any device, today announced that the Opera Mobile browser ships on the latest SOFTBANK MOBILE smartphone, Softbank X01T, in Japan. Softbank X01T is powered by Windows Mobile 6 and is deployed by one of Japan's leading 3G operators, Softbank. Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile provides users with a powerful Web experience.

IBM announced new and enhanced products to help telecommunications carriers, equipment providers and application developers take advantage of service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to help them more rapidly and affordably create, deploy and manage voice, video and data services.

Cisco is responding to two significant technology trends sweeping college and university communities as educators and administrators strive to meet the needs of students accustomed to a media-rich, mobile lifestyle, while at the same time working to strengthen campus security via interoperable communications.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 augments enterprise social computing capabilities through NewsGator and Atlassian integration.

ProgrammableWeb, the leading Web 2.0 repository for mashup applications and enabling APIs, today announced that it has integrated support for the OpenSearch protocol and completed integration testing with IBM's (NYSE: IBM) mashup maker, QEDWiki. This collaboration between ProgrammableWeb and IBM allows business users to easily explore, discover, install and publish mashup consumables such as APIs, widgets and feeds.