QUICK PALM OS BLURBS -- #1.) Clarinet Systems has announced "secure" IrDA sync technology; #2.) TRG Products is shipping their first Palm OS device; #3.) Nettech is reportedly bringing their mobile middleware to the Palm VII platform; #4.) There are two Palm Seminars coming up: 25Oct99 (Monday - Santa Clara, CA) & 27Oct99 (Monday - Los Angeles, CA); #5.) PC Week is reporting "Palm-based handhelds deliver, track, and recover for Postal Service" ; and #6.) PC World is reporting "READING PALM'S FUTURE -- Color PalmPilots" .

Puma Technology, Aether Systems, Attachmate Corporation, AvantGo, Certicom, Globalware Computing, The Windward Group, and ePocrates today announced the establishment of the Mobile Application Link Forum. [SOURCE: Business Wire]

Novatel Wireless has announced that they has partnered with OpenSky to provide custom-developed wireless IP modem cradles to OpenSky for use with handheld devices.

Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC) and National Semiconductor Corporation have jointly announced that National will be licensing the "CIC's Jot handwriting recognition system" for National's Geode WebPAD reference design.

PhatWare Corporation has announce the availability of "HPC Spell v2.3" (US$25) -- the English spell checker for Palm-Size PC, Handheld PC, and Handheld PC Professional Edition powered by Windows CE 2.0 or later.

Nikkei English News is reported that: #1.) Casio has plans to introduce a ruggedized palm-size PC running Sybase's mobile database technology for the Japanese marketplace in January 2000; and #2.) NEC has plans to begin selling three new models of their Windows CE savvy Mobile Gear II PDAs on 16Nov99 in Japan.

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