TipWorld's "New Product Gossip of the Day" by Don Crabb notes the following new devices -- #1.) CenturionSoft's Mercury Mobile; InfoGear iPhone; #3.) Landel's MailBug; and Bob Olodort's Stowaway (mobile printer from Think Outside 203-625-0082).

Enfour has announced an updated free Macintosh file conversion utility -- "EPOC<>Mac Text convert v1.1" -- that extracts the plain text data from EPOC "Word" and OPL (EPOC's end-user programming language) files. It also converts plain Mac text files into EPOC format. The update to v1.1 also improves: error handling; bug fixes; and rolls-in Enfour's previously released "FileMaker" to Epoc "Data" support utility, "FM Cleaner".

Edupage published for 09Aug99 has a summary blurb entitled "The Future Is At Hand" from an article originally published on 26Jul99 in the Industry Standard. A key part of this blurb were details that handheld sales reached 3.9 million units in 1998, and sales of handheld devices could surpass PC sales by 2002.

Puma Technology has announced that they have signed a letter of intent to merge with ProxiNet for an undisclosed number of shares of Puma common stock.

Microsoft's Slate online magazine has announced a new agreement with AvantGo to "deliver personalized content" to Palm OS and Windows CE handheld devices.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com) eFax: 978-246-3067