Lexar Media and SMART Modular Technologies have announced a new alliance to work together to build next-generation memory and I/O products. [Yahoo]

Addonics Technologies has announced a new high-speed USB 2.0 interface cable that attaches to all Addonics External CD, DVD, DVD/CDRW and hard drive kits to deliver up to 40 times faster data transfer rates over current USB 1.1 standard storage devices.

SkipWire and Margi Systems have announced plans to offer mobile users of Handspring Visors and Presenter-To-Go devices access to Internet webpages and online PowerPoint files for on-the-go presentations.

Neomar and Research-In-Motion (RIM) have announced the ability to bring IBM Lotus Sametime Everyplace messaging and connectivity to BlackBerry devices.

Psion Teklogix will team with SyVox to bring speech recognition solutions to Psion Teklogix's wireless infrastructure and mobile client hardware with SyVox's application software.

Pencel has announced Kinectivity 1.1 -- a mobile extended database management system and rapid application tool for Palm OS devices.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)