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IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, which the industry giant says is targeted at mobile application developers.

This includes both business and consumer Web 2.0 mashups.

According to IBM, Lotus Expeditor 6.1.2 - released last week - supports laptop and desktop machines, kiosks, and mobile-device clients.

The company says that 6.1.2 is designed for building and developing mobile mashups such as services for the tourism market.

That market is one in which electronic map applications are integrated with data on restaurants, weather, or vacation-spot review sites.

"We see great potential for mobile mashups in areas such as social networking, blogging, and discussion groups as they become ever more widespread," said Angus McIntyre, product line manager for Lotus Expeditor.

"A central part of Lotus Expeditor technology is its use of the Eclipse embedded Rich Client Platform application model. This allows applications to be created to span both desktop and mobile devices."

IBM's Expeditor news came at the same time as wireless-services carrier Sprint Nextel announcement that it is providing a beta version of a new software platform, Titan, based on IBM Lotus Expeditor software.

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