Robin Simpson reports that Strathfield Group Limited has been able to acquire the "eWorld" brand name from Apple Computer, and that they will use this brand name to "beef up" their custom handheld software development services. The Strathfield Group reportedly has nearly 100 outlet stores, 1000+ employees and annual revenues over US$180 million.

WINDOWS TECHEDGE ALERT published on 23Aug99 has a look at -- "Intellimirror gives you access to applications and data from wherever you are."

AnyDay.com has announced that their "online" DayPlanner will data sync with a wide range of personal digital assistants.

The PMN News Service examines the latest news regarding 3Com Palm Computing's legal injunction against Olivetti Computers USA, CompanionLink Software, and EchoLink Design. There is also a Q&A recently published with POCs at mobile software developer Purple Software.

SanDisk has announced plans to team up with Panasonic and Toshiba to "jointly collaborate and develop future secure next-generation memory card" solutions currently being called "SD Memory Card." The first release of these 24x32x2.1-mm size devices (32-MBs, 64-MBs) is expected in the year 2000, and the cards will be SDMI compliant.

Sybase has officially released their embedded database solution called "e-Anywhere" for portable computing devices.

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