Symbol Technologies has been awarded a five-year US$248 million contract to supply mobile computing, wireless networking, and scanning systems to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). From this contract, the following items will be available for purchase: Windows CE & DOS based handheld devices, bar-code scanners & readers, Spectrum24 wireless infrastructure equipment, memory cards, and printers.

Macmillan Computer Publishing and EA Sports has announced the publication of Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf for Palm OS devices. [SOURCE ZDNet News via Yahoo]

IBM has announced plans to bring their "message-oriented middleware" solution called MQSeries to a host of mobile computing devices -- including Palm OS and Windows CE. [SOURCE: Newsbytes, Information Week]

FOUR LINKS -- #1.) PC Week is reporting that "Electronic book shows promise"; #2.) PC World is of the opinion that "HP'S JORNADA 680 PRO IS DONE RIGHT"; #3.) ZDNET's AnchorDesk has "Land Three Downloads For Your Pilot". #4.) Wired notes that "SWATCH PREPS EMAIL WATCH".

TealPoint Software has announced the release of TealLaunch v 1.0.6n (US$12) -- "a pop-up and button-mapping launcher utility" for Palm OS devices.

Microsoft has announced the release of a Terminal Server client for Windows CE based Handheld PCs (HPCs) that will work with Windows NT Server Terminal Server Edition 4.0 and Windows 2000 Terminal Services over wired, wireless LAN, or dial-up connections www.microsoft.com/windowsce/products/download/term-serv.asp.

Southern LINC (a digital wireless communication service company) has announced plans to license and offer Phone.Com Up.Link Server to their customers in Q4'99 as a key part of their future wireless data infrastructure plans.