Sander van der Wal has announced the alpha release of an EPOC savvy Adobe Portable Document Files (PDF) reader that is based on "xpdf" an Open Source pdf reader for Unix/X Windows. For more information check out: www.xs4all.nl/~svdwal/Pdf/pdf.htm.

Ruksun Software Technologies has announced the release of several of their Windows CE applications for "free" for the Holiday Season as a special thank you to the Windows CE community for their continued support.

@Hand Medical Technologies offers over 10,000 pages of the "most critically important medical reference information" to handheld device users in the health care industry.

Research-In-Motion has announced recent deals with Panasonic and Lipman USA to supply them with "advanced OEM radio modems." Panasonic will offer these wireless devices as bundling options for their notebook line of computers, and Lipman USA will offer them with their point-of-sale terminals.

ZDNET's AnchorDesk notes that "BLUETOOTH WORRIES FAA -- Officials fear wireless standard could interfere with airplane systems" .

PhatWare Corporation has announced the availability of HPC Notes v3.02 Professional Edition (US$60) -- a new version of their notes organizer for Microsoft Windows CE. HPC Notes allows users to create notes and organize them by type, subject, creation and modification date. [DEVELOPER NOTE: HPC Notes 3.02 Professional Edition does not synchronize directly with Microsoft Outlook. If you would like to synchronize with Outlook, please use HPC Notes 3.01 Standard Edition.]

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