IBM is pushing its Lotus software onto the iPhone, iPod Touch and Macintosh. A beta Lotus Symphony 3.0, IBM’s free OpenOffice-based suite of spreadsheet, presentation and documents software, is now available for the Mac as an alternative to Microsoft Office. And IBM’s offering Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime on the iPhone as well as the Mac. It says Sametime can be used to build professional networks with social capabilities such as blogs, wikis and microblogging, as well as instant messaging.

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