Motorola is reporting going to buy Phillipe Kahn's Starfish software company with the hopes to use Starfish's technology to enhance future wireless handheld offerings from Motorola. You can learn more via wired.com.

Premier Electronics has announced a new 8MB rechargeable SRAM card in the industry standard PC Card Type II form factor.

Information Week recently examined the new NEC MobilePro 750C Windows CE "notebook lite." There is also a collection of reader responses to the question "Handhelds: A Business Tool?" on page 130 of the issue published on 06Jul98.

Electronic Engineering Times is reporting that PalmPilot's chief designer Jeff Hawkins definitely has plans to license 3Com's Palm OS to use in his new yet-to-be-named start-up company that appears to want to target the consumer handheld marketplace.

Applian Technologies has a new Windows CE solution that makes it possible to securely store data on Windows CE devices but also provides a quick-n-easy "fat-finger interface" for speedy data access.

Century Software has released version 1.0.4 of ClockWork -- a networkable day planner for the Mac OS that also links with Newton OS devices.

Matt Burback notes that Apple is publicly announcing the release of "Newton Press 1.1 for Macintosh Update" that "adds support for new Newton OS-based hardware; two-page and landscape document display; faster ASCII text imports; and faster book creation." You should be able to find it on Apple's Software Updates page for Newton software at http://swupdates.info.apple.com.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)