Handheldmed.com launched the latest of their AvantGo mobile offerings for physicians and other medical professionals utilizing Palm OS and Windows CE devices in medicine. In the latest addition to Handheldmed Mobile Edition, you can find the latest abstracts from the American Family Physician, the journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

IBM announced WebSphere Everyplace Suite, a new server software offering that lets businesses easily develop, manage and deliver Web and enterprise applications to a variety of devices.

MpegTV announces PocketTV, a MPEG movie viewer for Windows CE Palm-size and Handheld PCs. PocketTV is capable of playing movie files encoded in the standard MPEG-1 format (extension .mpg). PocketTV is available for MIPS, SH3, SH4 and ARM Palm-size and Handheld PCs running WinCE version 2.0, 2.01 and 2.11, and upcoming Windows CE 3.0 Windows Powered Pocket PC.

Pegasystems announced that Carl Yankowski, Chief Executive Officer of Palm, Inc. will join seven other speakers at the Rule Your Markets executive conference on April 6-7, 2000 at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City.

TechWeb reports that Nvidia is teaming with Microsoft on the X-Box game console architecture. The article talks about the X-Box and how it’s Microsoft’s last chance to capture some of the game console market, since Windows CE in Sega’s Dreamcast didn’t live up to expectations.

Odyssey Software announced that Infinity Logistics has chosen CEfusion Enterprise to enable mobile Windows CE devices to access their e-Warehouse supply chain and warehouse management system.

Handspring co-founder Donna Dubinsky said that Handspring is set to enter the Japanese market with a localized version of Visor. News.com reports that the localized version will be out sometime next quarter.

News.com reports that the next version of Windows CE will include new email features that will let you download email directly from your provider and will support file attachments.

Microsoft announced that the Pocket PC will ship with versions of Word and Excel. According to ZDNet, a file created on a desktop PC can be viewed, edited and saved by the devices without having to go through a translator.

Microsoft unveiled new features of the Pocket PC, including pocket versions of Outlook Inbox, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Pocket Inbox for Pocket PCs, which are expected to be available from hardware manufacturers in the next 90 days, will enable access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino.