A&R Partners announced that Aether Technologies and Riverbed Technologies have joined the PR firm’s mobile computing group, which includes Palm Computing, Fujitsu PC Corporation and Siemens. Aether and Riverbed provide software and services that make it possible for road-bound business users and telecommuters to tap into critical enterprise data through their handheld computers over wired and wireless networks.

Here’s an article from Internet Week on the challenges IT managers are facing now that handheld devices are becoming very popular.

Here’s a speculative article from Forbes on what Palm Computing founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky could be working on.

PC World has this review of Actioneer Smart Portal service from Actioneer. Actioneer software comes bundled with Lotus Notes R5 and with various IBM and Palm Computing platform products.

Simba Technologies announced support for Microsoft’s Global Data Access architecture for the Microsoft Windows CE operating system. SimbaProvider Rowset SDK Version 1.5 is currently available from Simba Technologies. With SimbaProvider Rowset SDK customers can build an OLE DB provider for their data. SimbaProvider SQL Command SDK Version 1.5, available in Q3 1999 allows vendors to evolve their OLE DB solution to include native SQL access.

MapBlast! now offers direct search and reservation capabilities for more than 8,000 hotels and resorts worldwide, real-time traffic reports, and the ability to search for restaurants, gas stations, rest areas, golf courses, and even speed traps along any particular route. Pocket MapBlast! formats maps and driving directions for Palm organizers and Windows CE devices.

Here’s an article from PC Week on Microsoft’s SQL Server for Windows CE. The SQL Server, which was demonstrated at the Windows CE Developer’s Comvention, will be released in beta form early next year.

MapBlast! now offers direct search and reservation capabilities for more than 8,000 hotels and resorts worldwide, real-time traffic reports, and the ability to search for restaurants, gas stations, rest areas, golf courses, and even speed traps along any particular route. Pocket MapBlast! formats maps and driving directions for Palm organizers and Windows CE devices.

Here’s an article from PC World on last week’s PC Expo. The article talks about the madness surrounding the Palm VII.

US News has this article on AOL’s latest deals, including the big deal with Palm Computing.