Palm has announced Plans to purchased Enterprise software solution developer Extended Systems.

Infowave Software and Novatel Wireless have announced a new agreement to jointly market, integrate, and distribute each others' solutions to enterprise wireless customers.

Niagara Mohawk (energy services company) is using Tadpole-Cartesia's Conic GIS field system for doing mobile mapping and data collection. Some features of Conic: can be tailored using Visual Basic, and includes the following modules: view, redline/sketch, database review/update, and capture/interaction/data analysis.

Would you use a mobile phone device that included advertising? The company SkyGo has found in a recent trial in Boulder, Colorado that some 15% of users participating in the trail responded to promotional messages with intent to take action. The study also found that 58% of the users had a "measurable recall rate" on the types of advertisements that were being sent to the Ericsson R280 LX WAP phone being used in the testing.

SplashData has released a new version of SplashPhoto (US$20) that allows mobile Palm users to manage their mobile/desktop digital image album libraries.

Looking for more storage options for you Handspring Visor? Then check out www.handspring.com for pointers to many options -- including Hagiwara's new 8-MB and 16-MB Flash Modules.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)