Actual Software announced the release of version 3.1 of its MultiMail Pro product. MultiMail Pro allows users of the Palm Computing platform to send and receive email directly from an email server. MultiMail Pro can be used with both wireline and wireless modems. MultiMail Pro supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise and most major internet service providers.

News.com says that IBM and Motorola plan to announce a partnership where they will develop wireless Internet technology for cars.

It looks like the prosecutors in the Microsoft case finally agreed on how how to break up Microsoft. USA Today is reporting that Microsoft would be slpit into two companies: one for its Windows operating system, and another for software such as word processing.

TechWeb says that the market for Internet access through mobile devices is forecast to cover 500 million handsets worldwide by 2003. With such a huge market, everyone from IBM to Microsoft is trying to get in the game now.

UBICCO has announced the creation of the MoViE platform (Mobile Vision E-business). MoViE will enable companies to handle the diversity of Internet terminals. Through use of the platform, any company producing Internet, intranet, extranet, Minitel or Audiotel content will be able to deploy data to all types of terminals, including Palm or Psion PDAs, WAP telephones, WebPhones, and Web terminals.

Here’s a story from Wired News on the possibility of an Apple PDA. The article speculates that while nothing is official yet, one could be announced at either the Worldwide Developer’s Conference or at the next Macworld Expo in New York.

Qvadis Corporation and Editio Online Publishing announced an exclusive joint marketing and distribution partnership. Under the agreement, Editio becomes Qvadis’ premier partner for original fiction and nonfiction e-book publishing. Qvadis’ new e-bookstore will feature Editio’s line of electronic books.

TechWeb says that the market for Internet access through mobile devices is forecast to cover 500 million handsets worldwide by 2003. With such a huge market, everyone from IBM to Microsoft is trying to get in the game now.

Globalware Computing today announced that its PylonPro 2.6 product will be used to provide schedule synchronization for users of Palm Computing Platform devices at the upcoming Lotusphere 2000 conference. Conference attendees can download the conference agenda and exhibitor directory onto Palm handheld computing devices by visiting Lotusphere 2000 Online, located in the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Europe 1 and 2 conference rooms. PylonPro 2.6 will synchronize the show schedule with the attendee’s Palm device directly from any Domino server.

iScribe, a healthcare technology company that has developed mobile, handheld wireless electronic prescribing technology, announced the acquisition of eMedicus, as well as the acquisition of a wireless prescription writing product and exclusive rights to its underlying technology.