The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is "spreading like wildfire" in Europe and Japan, and that Americans should expect a host of WAP savvy solutions in the year 2000.

Mobile and PDA Expo 1999 will be held 02-04Nov99 in Santa Clara, California at the Wireless Information Technology Conference 1999.

Purple Software has announced their "e-shop" for their handheld products -- "Chess, Navigator, PowerBase, and GeoMaster. Prices online reflect a 10% discount from normal retail pricing.

FABS has released a Windows CE version of their popular Newton point-of-sale (POS) solution called "OrderPad." This solution has been designed to support the following industries: Foodservice; Retail Stores; Wholesale/Distribution; and Sales Reps & Agent.

The Gartner Group is reporting that on average a "US$500 handheld" device costs an "enterprise" company "nearly US$2700" to support a year. [SOURCE: Reuters, PR Newswire]

PalmMate has announced a French version of their popular dates tracker for the Palm OS designed to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, etc. ... This is a free upgrade for registered users.

Chuck Mooney has announced the creation of a new site dedicated to publishing details about "new products" called "Hot Product News".

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