Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC) has announced that they have formed a strategic alliance with China's Legend Consumer Electronics Company to develop and deploy pen-based applications for handheld devices based on Windows CE.

ThinAirApps has announced a new corporate "ThinAir Server" that can enable secure real-time wireless email access to handheld devices from traditional LAN email servers like Microsoft Exchange or IMAP.

Reuters is reporting that Nokia sold over 78.5 million mobile phone handsets in 1999 -- a 92% increase over units sold in 1998.

Symbol Technologies has announced that President Clinton has cited "Symbol's Bar Code Scanning and Wireless LAN" innovative technologies as the primary reasons for Symbol being awarded the United States' highest technology award -- the National Medal of Technology.

Red Hat has announced that they are "going to join the embedded operating system fray" by releasing "Red Hat Tools for Embedded Developers (RHTED)." [SOURCES: ZDNet, BusinessWire]

Casio has announced plans to jointly develop "palm-size mobile multimedia wireless Internet terminals" with Britain's Vodafone AirTouch.

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