There is a new approved "XHTML" standard that will make "designing and creating" web pages that will be desktop, handheld, network appliance, smart phone, and television savvy. [SOURCE: Wired, PC Week]

Kingston has announced a new Type II PC Card that offers 260-MBs of disk storage called the "DataPak 260."

Avantgo has announced that former Dell Online manager -- Richard Owen -- is now their CEO. AvantGo has also recently announced that eHow.Com is now going to use AvantGo.com to provide interactive Internet wireless services.

Versaware has announced that they have signed an agreement to license 1,000 books from the catalogs of C & B Publishing PLC transforming them to Versaware's Versabooks format to be made available from eBookCity.

Franklin Electronic Publishers has announced that they have begun accept orders for their flagship Physicians' Desk Reference database for Palm OS platforms.

NEC has announced a new IEEE 1394 savvy "home wireless networking technology" that is capable of "400 megabit-per-second (mbps) throughput," and can transmit data up to "7-meters through interior walls and up to 12-meters by line-of- sight."

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