Microsoft and Ericsson have announced a new joint venture that will offer a new mobile browser for Internet-enabled mobile phones and handheld computer devices. Expect products to ship to consumers from this venture in the year 2000.

Malcolm Bryant has released a new version (v5.12) of his freeware banking and investment management program called "ABP" that supports "OFC& OFX formats" for EPOC devices (Revo, Series 5/5mx, Series 7, Netbook & the PC EPOC Emulator). It also supports English, German, and French homepages.enterprise.net/pilita/abphomepage.html.

Jeff Kirvin, who hosts a Geosites' site called "Writing On Your Palm" that recommends to HTML authors (and all authors in general) to check out QED (a Doc editor) and MobiBook (HTML rendering Doc reader) for Palm OS document creation.

China's HiSense Software (office automation system company) has licensed Communication Intelligence Computer's (CIC) PenTools product (US$20,000) for usage in future pen-based enterprise office automation systems. Other Chinese licensees include: Great Wall Group, Pansky International Group, Powerwise Group, QianDao City government, DaLian Branch of People's Bank of China, and Wuxi Local Tax Bureau.

Riverbed Technologies has announced the creation of a new program called "Riverbed Mobile Enterprise Partner Program" to better service the needs of enterpise customers, VARs, ISVs, integrators, and OEM partners to build mobile solutions using Riverbed's suite of mobile technology.

Shane Hill at SDHEngSoft has announced ListIt v1.1 (an inventory & listing application) with support for Apple Newton MessagePad 2x00 devices.

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