Adobe is reportedly going to "retool" and "refocus" the next version of PageMaker -- version 7.0 -- to support the creation of mobile PDF savvy electronic content. [PC Magazine]

According to Dataquest, Compaq's iPAQ and related handheld products generated Compaq over US$200 million in revenue for their recent fiscal Q'2 time-period (Editor's note: Assuming an average purchase price of US$500, that would translate into 400,000 iPAQs in the second quarter, and likely more because the net to Compaq per unit is lower). This is significant according to Dataquest analysts when compared to Palm's US$135 million, and Handspring's $65 million during the same time period. [San Jose Mercury News]

Audible is now publishing a two-volume collection of Don Katz's Rolling Stone, Esquire, Outside, and other magazine articles called "King of Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories."

Pumatech has announced Intellisync v4.0 (US$70) with support for Symbian EPOC , Palm OS , and Microsoft's Windows CE & PocketPC devices. Intellisync provides two-way synchronization capabilities between desktop Personal Information Managers (PIMs) like Microsoft Outlook to handheld devices.

DriveSavers has announced plans to demo new handheld and digital camera data recovery solutions at the upcoming PC Expo to be held in New York City.

SYWARE has announced new support for Microsoft's Visual Basic in their real-time wireless enterprise development tool called mEnable Software Developer Kit (SDK) v1.2. Key features: build Pocket PC/Windows CE applications, access ODBC-enabled databases, and TCP/IP support.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)