MobiMate announced an agreement with Garmin International for bundling a trial version of MobiMate’s WorldMate with Garmin’s iQue 3600 PDA. WorldMate is a travel application for PDAs and smartphones, with key features that include world clocks with automatic DST calculation, a world map with day/night display, 5-day worldwide weather forecasts from The Weather Channel updated on-line, and a currency converter with daily exchange rate updates.

Astraware announces that Bejeweled has been named as Best Game Application 2003 in the Handango Champion Awards. In celebration of this honor, Astraware is releasing the Bejeweled Game of the Year Edition, which premieres the company’s new Aurora sound technology.

PalmWars2 is now available for download. PalmWars is a real-time strategy game for PalmOS handhelds. There is a war going on between three clans and the object of this game is to win this war.

The AccuWeather.com Wireless Application was recently named the winner at the Mobile GamesFest. Built with Qualcomm’s BREW technology, the AccuWeather.com Wireless Application allows wireless users with color handsets to download AccuWeather’s up-to-the-minute weather from their wireless provider.

Beiks LLC has released the MedicineNet Pocket Drug Guide, a new handheld version of MedicineNet, Inc.’s informational database informational database of the most popular U.S. medications. The Pocket Drug Guide is available for immediate download in two versions for $9.95 and $17.95, with the latter version including a copy of BDicty Dictionary Reader Pro with the ability to add and edit articles.

IntelliGolf v6.6 was announced for Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs. Version 6.6 adds wireless and Internet access to the largest international golf course database in the world (18,000+ courses) including their digital scorecards, a new section on putting, more sidegames and game-improving statistics.

NEC America and Motorola are joining forces on an effort to provide wireless roaming between corporate and cellular networks. eWeek also reports that Intermec Technologies announced that customers can roam between WANs and WLANs on its 700 Series of handheld computers through a partnership with IBM. IBM’s WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager software now supports Intermec’s dual-radio computers to provide seamless roaming between LANs and WANs.

SafeWeb released version 4.0 of its Secure Extranet Appliance (SEA Tsunami), allowing remote users to access network resources using a Web browser. Version 4.0 of the SEA Tsunami extends SSL VPN functionality by enabling access to most applications and network devices visible above the Ethernet layer 2 with a small browser applet. Layer 2 VPN access extends SafeWeb traditional support for remote access to Web, email, file, terminal and static TCP applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

Metrowerks has added kernel-level debugging capabilities to its line of development tools for Linux environments with the launch of the CodeWarrior Development Studio, ARM ISA Edition for Linux Platform Development, Version 2.0. In addition to its support for ARM processors, Metrowerks expects to soon extend Linux kernel-level debug capabilities to other architectures, including Motorola’s PowerQUICC and ColdFire product families.

McDonald’s announced the launch of high-speed wireless Internet access for customers in an anticipated 100 restaurants throughout the Chicagoland and Milwaukee areas, with more than 60 of those restaurants offering wireless services immediately. Additional locations will be completed by the end of September.