Information Week Online is reporting that IBM and 3Com have signed a significant cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies wide access to each other's technologies -- servers, Internet software, networking, wireless, and handheld.

Enfour has announced a "freeware" drag-n-drop Macintosh application that extracts plain text information from EPOC Word and OPL (EPOC end-user programming language) files. The utility package will also convert plain Mac text files into EPOC format for file transfer down to EPOC devices using Psion's "MacConnect" application.

ZDNET's Anchordesk is reporting in a recently published "Top Tech News" that British Airways is "testing" electronic book devices on select flights with select passengers www.anchordesk.com/a/ad1tlt0803nk/3680.

Puma Technology has announced a new licensing agreement with Certicom "to deliver optimal security [via Certicom's SSL Plus] over wireless networks for corporations standardizing on handheld devices connecting" to company infrastructure using Puma's Intellisync Anywhere.

PC World Online is reporting "PALM SOFTWARE MOVES TO PHONES: 3Com licenses WAP browser, eyes other platforms for Palm technology" and "INSTANT MESSAGES GOING WIRELESS: The hottest Net communications technology heads for handhelds".

PhatWare Corporation has announced the availability of HPC dbExplorer 1.4 for Windows CE 2.x savvy devices (SH-3, SH-4, MIPS, & StrongARM, size 100-KB). This tool allows a user to browse and manage databases on their mobile device. It also adds the ability to "Copy, Rename, Delete, and Transfer (via infrared port)" databases.