Metaworks Inc. has been engaged to develop a custom Performance Measurement Feedback Survey for Trade Team Canada’s Bio-Industries (TTC Bio) pavilion at BIO 2002. Canadian and international conference attendees will be invited to complete the survey using Palm m505 handheld computers throughout the Government of Canada pavilion during the conference.

Palm Infocenter has a review of the PDA Pro Phone case from PDA Skins that’s compatible with almost all PDAs on the market and allows you to carry your handheld, phone, and various credit cards in a variety of ways.

Pacific Neo-Tek has released OmniRemote Pro, which supports all known Palm OS devices. The new version of the application that turns any Palm handheld into a remote control now features a completely configurable user interface, an unlimited number of buttons, IR learning function, unlimited macro support, timer support, and “flip screen mode” so that the screen can be operated upside-down or right-side-up (convenient for models with the IR emitter located at the bottom of the unit).

Inside Contactless, formerly known as Inside technology, and NTRU announced a highly secure technology that anticipates and reduces fraud, while assuring the integrity and validity of data. A demonstration of the offer will be displayed at the upcoming Card Tech Secure Tech show in New Orleans, booth 473 from April 23 to 25. The demonstration will feature ID cards that hold digitally signed pictures and other personal information unique to cardholders. A Handspring Visor handheld computer, enhanced with Inside’s contactless technology, will wirelessly extract the picture from the card in the Visor’s Springboard expansion slot and display the image on the handheld, thereby allowing instant validation of the cardholder’s identity.

Rococo Software has introduced Developers Corner, an online resource that’s both a support site for Rococo customers and a resource for developers building Bluetooth applications using standard Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology (JABWT).

Pacific Microinstruments, Inc. announced a component-based solution for the transmission and graphical display of remote monitoring information on Java-enabled PDAs and cell phones. The information is processed and broadcast by a Java-based Web server module for display on remote mobile devices. The Extra*Digit Mobile SPC Suite enables the display of remote monitoring information in the form of graphs, control charts, histograms, and numerical data on cell phones and PDAs that run a Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME) virtual machine.

Cutting Edge Software and Corsoft Corporation teamed to enable mobile professionals to receive documents and spreadsheets as email attachments on Palm OS handheld computers via Corsoft

Pharmaceutical company, Aventis Pharma, has deployed mobile software from AvantGo, Inc. to enable its French speaking customers (healthcare professionals and patients) to access cancer care information anytime, anywhere from their personal digital assistants or the Internet. Oncologists, General practitioners (GPs) and other mobile healthcare professionals can now access the latest news and information from ZoomCancer.com, a dedicated portal designed for cancer specialists and patients.

Waplane announced its next version, 1.3, supports cHTML. This allows employees, who need to enter organizational information systems, to use an even wider range of terminals including PDA’s, iMode terminals, and Nokia Communicator’s Web and WAP browsers.

fun communications has launched a new Web site at fun4palm.de and fun4palm.com for the mobile communications software funSMS and funBOOK. To mark the launch, the new versions of funSMS 3 and funBOOK, which can be run free of charge for 30 days, are now available for downloading.