BSQUARE has announced a new book on programming for Windows CE, written by BSQUARE engineers (Steve Makofsky, Jason Nottingham, & Andrew Tucker) under contract for SAMS Publishing entitled "Teach Yourself Windows CE Programming in 24 Hours" that is now available in retail and online stores.

Sprint PCS has announced plans to team with IBM to offer a "wide variety of future products and services" for mobile professionals.

Metricom has announced the availability of "Ricochet 128-Kbps service" in the following new metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Salt Lake City.

The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA) have reported requested and received specific "wireless services" to help aid their investigation with regards to "EgyptAir Flight 990" from Nextel Communications.

The following companies continue to work together to expand enterprise Java applications for Internet appliances and mobile computing devices: Espial, PointBase, Psion, Bluestone, and Cyrus Intersoft. They expected to make a "joint" announcement on future products at the January 2000 Java Business Expo.

OTHER RESOURCES -- #1.) You can now access "offline" EPOC News via the following bookmark: www.epocsoftware.com/epocnews.htm; and #2.) GoPDA.com has announced a new marketing and distribution partnership with Qvadis Corporation; #3.) Palmtop Publications has announced that they are shipping their the first issue of their color bi-monthly journal for Palm OS devices called "PalmUser Magazine."

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