Dauphin Technology has announced the signing of a partnership agreement between Dauphin Technology and Oracle to bring support for Oracle8i Lite on Dauphin mobile computing devices. [SOURCE: Business Wire]
Sierra Wireless has announced a new cellular network interface Type II PC card called "AirCard 300" for Windows CE/95/98/NT devices.
Iridium -- global satellite phone network -- has announced "price cuts up to 65%." Handsets will now be priced at US$2300 (reduced by US$1000), and international calls will be reduced from US$4 to US$3 a minute. [SOURCE: Washington Post (21Jun99), Business Wire, Wired]
Symantec has released WinFax Pro for Palm OS devices with the capabilities to "send, receive, edit, and manage" faxes.
Hitachi has announced a new Windows CE Professional device that comes in a "9-by-6-by-1-inch tablet" form factor called "HPW-600ET" (US$1200, shipping late Jul99). Some key features: 128-MHz Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC processor; color 7.5-inch touch panel LCD, 16MB of RAM; 56-kbps modem; multiple ports (IrDA, microphone, speaker, headphone jack, VGA out, and USB), and both a Type II PC Card Type and CompactFlash slot.
PC World has posted the following "huge amount" of articles of potential interest for mobile handheld users:
- AOL PALM USERS: YOU'VE (FINALLY) GOT MAIL
- SURVIVING IN A WORLD OF TINY PCS
- THE SHAPE OF (MOBILE) THINGS TO COME
- CAN THE PC EMPIRE STRIKE BACK?
- HITACHI PUTS WINDOWS ON THE TAB
- BIG BLUE'S WIRELESS BLUE SKIES
- PALM-SIZE CES TO GO WIRELESS
Steve Weyer has reportedly released Newt's Cape 2.0u-2 for Newton to registered users. This new version includes: "autoload links from scheduled pages," and many "cache" configuration features.