ZDNET is reporting that industry analysts expect the consumer PDA marketplace to continue to grow at a high rate.

agentGO (mobile decision support solutions provider) has announced the launch of MobileDASH (a mobile enterprise portal) based on version 2.5 of the agentGO's agentWORKS mobile application platform. AgentWORKS is Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) v1.1 compliant, and offers the following integrated applications: agentFILE, agentDOC, agentSHEET, agentCRM, agentTALK, agentTEXT, and agentEXPENSE.

Synchrologic has announced a new Internet accessible personalized content manager for handheld devices called ReadySyncGo! that can also do "travel management" and desktop sync to Microsoft Outlook.

Handspring is shipping their VisorPhone Springboard module (US$299) that supports GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) carriers in the United States.

Asian Venture Capital Journal has announced plans to release at their conference "2001 Asian Venture Forum on 26-28Feb01 in Tokyo, Japan" a new published reported focused on the Japanese marketplace. For more information about this report send email to: Sunita Sujanani

PhatWare is now shipping HPC Notes for Palm OS at an introductory price of US$25 (regularly $40). Key features: powerful text search, document security, synchronization with desktop application, and Internet mail capabilities.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)