Windows Magazine covers the news that Philips Electronics has announced two new Nino devices--the Nino 200 (US$299, less features) and the Nino 300 (US$399). Both units come with a standard 320x200 backlit LCD touch screen that supports four-level grayscale, a 75MHz CPU, and 8MB of RAM.

Enfour has announced that they will be offering EPOC assistance to students of the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Enfour has offered hardware and technical support to the students to encourage their efforts. Projects planned include a PDF viewer, personal productivity applications, and a Chinese character handwriting recognition utility.

Excite has announced plans to support Palm Pilot devices with "data services" and online mobile portals.

ZDNET's AnchorDesk has two articles of potential interest: #1.) "MASTER YOUR HANDHELD--Handhelds were created for people on the go" (by Courtney Attwood), and #2.) "NAB THREE COOL NEW TOOLS FOR YOUR PALM--Check out the latest additions" (by Jon DeKeles).

Wired reports that Motorola is grappling with the "tough choices" related to their Iridium global satellite phone system deal, but MCI WorldCom's CEO has announced that they have no plans to enter the "wireless phone business".

Sweden's Sendit AB--a developer of GSM mobile data application software --has been purchased for US$125 million by Microsoft. [SOURCE: WIRELESS DATA NEWS]

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)