Stephen Pang reports that handheld users and especially Psion users may find Stuart Ballan's "Mobile Pages Challenge" an interesting WWW site.

Wind River Systems (WRS) is now offering a new collection of technologies that make it possible to build a portable real-time graphical user interface (GUI). Some of the key WRS products include PersonalJava for VxWorks, eNavigator, HTMLWorks, and Zinc for VxWorks.

StockBoss is now providing "financial alert services" to Motorola's PageWriter 2000 two-way pager users.

More news from Symbol: #1. Symbol has joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) to participate in building future compatible wireless technologies, #2. Symbol will team with BPA Systems to build mobile Oracle solutions to solve enterprise problems, and #3. Symbol will work with Socket Communications to build plug-in laser scanners for future Windows CE devices. [SOURCE: Business Wire]

Steve Gold at Newsbytes reported on 09Sep98 that "Bell Labs [has] Developed [a] New Wireless Compression Technology" that they call "BLAST (Bell Labs Layered Space Time)" that may be able to boost capacity of specific types of wireless links by 10-20 times.

Softwarebuero Mueller has announced the release of the "Options v3.3"--a comprehensive utility package for the Newton that has the ability to modify a host of Newton internal features including "Freeze, Undo, Close Extras, Backlight, Battery Warning, Amount of correctable words, and Number of Clipboards."

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)