The 3rd Annual Mobile Internet and Information Services Conference and Expo will be held May 09-11 in San Diego, California. The main sponsor for this conference is Alcatel.

Wired examines the current "Battle for PDA Market" (Palm vs. Microsoft vs. Symbian).

Kasten Chase has announced plans to partner with Research-In-Motion (RIM) to bring more security communications capabilities to RIM's BlackBerry wireless devices so that the technology can be used with the Department of Defense (DOD) Messaging Service (DMS) servers using Microsoft Exchange and/or Lotus Domino.

TB Labs has released Northeast Utilities based in Hartford, Connecticut is using a new tool from Padcom called "RemoteData" that enables Northeast Utilities to access backend servers and applications from wireless mobile data terminals that uses Northeast Utilities' existing RF communications infrastructure.

Aventail and AvantGo have announced a new joint marketing relationship that will try to bring enterprise data sources and applications found in corporate organizations to mobile users.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)