Intel has announced plans to purchase Xircom, Rex handheld manufacturer, according to a news article at San Jose Mercury News

InfiniSource's Rose City Software has teamed up with NotePager to bring wireless stock alerts to pagers and cellphones via TradeTrakker (financial portfolio management software).

Vindigo has announced new personalized location-based services for Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California.

PalmWare has announced a new framework called MPS that enables applications written with a graphics developer toolkit called VAG2 to build applications that support Windows 98/ME/NT/2000, Windows CE, Sybmian EPOC OS, and Palm operating systems.

Yahoo has announced that they will be using Pumatech's Intellisync software as Yahoo's synchronization solution of choice for Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo Address Book, and Yahoo Notepad (Internet to desktop or handheld).

CONFERENCES: #1.) GSM World Congress will be held in Cannes, France from Feb 20 - 23; and #2.) CeBIT will be in Hanover, Germany from Mar 22 - 28.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)