GoAmerica Communications announced beta testing that will allow mobile individuals to comparison-shop wirelessly. Using patent-pending search engine technology from BarPoint.com, consumers soon will be able to scan or type in a retail product’s UPC barcode on most information appliances, wirelessly request comparative pricing data and then purchase the product through a wireless e-commerce Web site link.

w-Trade announced that Benson York Group, Firstrade Securities, WinTrade, and Wyse Securities all plan use the w-Trade Wireless Trading System to enable their customers to track the markets and trade from a variety of PDAs, smart phones, and other handheld wireless devices.

Mobile Computing announced the 1999 Mobile Innovation Award winners. You can check out why the Palm V was a big winner.

Sun Microsystems and 3Com announced plans to develop a reference port of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Sun’s Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com’s Palm operating system software later this year.

Last week we posted an item on Axiom Technologies’ EZ Reader for Palm computers and Windows CE devices. In the item, we did not post the correct URL. The correct URL is www.ez-reader.com.

Novatel Wireless announced their latest product, the Merlin Type II Wireless IP Modem. Designed for Windows 95/98/NT/CE and 2000 computers equipped with a Type II PCMCIA slot, Merlin allows mobile workers to send and receive email, connect to the World Wide Web, and access corporate files and databases wirelessly. Priced at $279, Merlin will be commercially available in August 1999. Advance orders for Merlin are being accepted by calling Novatel Wireless at 888-888-9231.

Here’s an article from InfoWorld on what top folks at Microsoft and 3Com think the future will hold of handheld technologies at the annual Corporate Computing and Networking Expo.

PC World has this article on what’s next for Windows CE. The article also talks about some of the demonstrations at last week’s Windows CE Developers Conference.

Last week we posted an item on Axiom Technologies’ EZ Reader for Palm computers and Windows CE devices. In the item, we did not post the correct URL. The correct URL is www.ez-reader.com.

The San Jose Mercury News has this article about a person who booked a flight and survived a potential nightmare by using the Palm VII.