EMS Technologies' subsidiary called "LXE" has announced a new "486-based handheld computer" called the "LXE 2325 Handheld Computer."

ARM Holdings and Texas Instruments have announced a new agreement that would enable each other to collaborate on "next-generation wireless Internet devices."

Microsoft's new "Windows DNA application technology" has gained "mobile" capabilities from Rogue Wave Software that is based on Windows CE and Visual C++ developer tools.

Club Photo has announced new freeware plug-in called "i.Share" for PhotoShop and PhotoDeluxe that enables digital camera users to export any image from either application directly to Club Photo Web album.

Chuck Mooney at Hot Product News notes that "IDC Expects the Worldwide Internet Economy to Exceed $1 Trillion by 2001" www.idc.com/Data/Internet/content/NET110399PR.htm. Handheld products will more than likely play a major role in this growth.

Socket Communications has announced the release of Socket's Scanner SDK -- "a Software Developers Kit that simplifies the task of building bar code scanning applications for mobile computers powered by Microsoft's Windows CE operating system."

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