John Cox

Splitting its Palm OS engineers into a separate internal company allows Palm to license the software to third parties and its own Solutions Group. The Palm OS outfit is headed by new CEO David Nagel. One can only hope Nagel thrives on a challenge.

A new gateway may soon make it possible for mobile workers to roam among existing and emerging cellular data networks as well as public-access wireless LANs.

As network executives begin to experiment with Web services, they

Start-up Zeosoft Corp. is readying a set of Java components that load onto a handheld computer and turn the device into an application server.

Vaultus Inc. recently revealed software that enterprises can use to transplant parts of corporate applications to handheld computers

Vaultus Inc. Thursday revealed software that enterprises can use to transplant parts of corporate applications to handheld computers.

Microsoft Corp. released the second beta version of Windows CE 4.0 Tuesday that marks the first time the software giant is letting the general WinCE development community download it from the company's Web site.

A security weakness in the encryption standard used within IEEE-based wireless LANs has been uncovered.