ePocrates announced that it is developing ePocrates Rx Pro, premium drug reference software, for the Pocket PC platform.

Healthcare organizations are turning to Palm, Inc. to streamline business processes and improve overall patient care. Using Palm handheld computers, healthcare providers can easily access and manage critical information at the point of care, where decision support is so critical. And healthcare organizations are able to more efficiently manage their businesses and improve patient safety and satisfaction. Palm’s focus on promoting solutions that assist in addressing critical healthcare issues–patient safety, quality of care, decision support, HIPAA(1) compliance, security–has made the company a leading handheld provider for the healthcare industry.

PdaPointer.com announced its January 2003 picks for the best PDA applications on the Palm OS platform. The winners were selected after careful design examination and rigorous usability and performance testing.

FlyZip XR 2.1 was released recently. FlyZip XR is a compressing and decompressing utility, operating right on your Palm handheld. With FlyZip XR, you can double the amount of data stored on your Palm handheld without modifying your hardware.

STNE Corporation is now PDA Specialists. PDA Specialists has moved from Magna, UT to Everett, WA. PDA Specialists offers internal memory upgrades for the Palm V, VII, III, Zire, m105, m125, m130, m500, m505, i705, Handspring Visor, Visor Prism, Visor Edge, Visor Platinum, Visor Neo, Sony CLIE 415, 610, 710, and 760. PDA Specialists also offers repairs on almost every model.

Pocket Accountant is a new software package for the Palm OS (soon also on Pocket PC) designed to keep track of you income and expenses while on the run. Pocket Accountant features a built-in, customizable, and flexible Chart of Accounts, which keeps track of your income, expenses, and logbook by recording transactions as they occur.

Vindigo announced that its Vindigo 2.0 is available to AT&T Wireless customers with J2ME-enabled mobile phones. With the debut of its Java-enabled service, the company now supports every major wireless and mobile device platform.

Palm, Inc. and Handmark announced that Handmark will publish and distribute the next generation of Palm Solution Group’s Palm Mobile Mentor software, a collection of organization, productivity, learning, and teaching applications for educators and students. The companies made the announcement on the opening day of the Florida Educational Technology Conference that runs through Thursday at the Orange County Convention Center.

mail-e-on-air 2.1 is now available, and it is multilingual. Supporting English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Finnish. mail-e-on-air will examine each user’s mail file and present itself in the language of the mail-file, if it is supported, otherwise English will be used. Another new feature is that with one single click (selection) you can mark an email in the Inbox as Important.

AvantGo, Inc. announced that it has shipped the second generation of its AvantGo Mobile Sales solution, an enhanced version of its mobile application built to help executives accelerate the adoption of existing customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) applications. The new version of AvantGo Mobile Sales provides handheld access to key sales tools at the point of customer interaction, minimizing downtime by providing access to multiple data resources such as SFA, call center, ERP, intranet, and legacy systems.