Sprint PCS Group said it planned to offer businesses a new service that will allow you to access corporate email via cell phones or handheld computers in mid-2002. The company said its Sprint PCS Business Connection Enterprise Edition would offer secure, network-based wireless access to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes without the need for special hardware behind the corporate firewall or software in your desktop computers. It will also allow you to access calendars, personal contacts, corporate contacts and document files on their desktop computers with no synchronization required.

Here’s an article from the New York Times about W32/KLEZ.H, a program that combines elements of a virus, which infects machines, and a worm, which transports itself from machine to machine. It also tries to disable some antivirus programs. Free registration is required to view this article.

Information Week has this article that says Microsoft issued a patch for a security flaw that affects users of Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2002. According to the article, if you use create an email using Microsoft Word as the email editor, it could create a situation that would allow a hacker to run potentially malicious software on the user’s system.

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Expand Beyond Corporation introduced the latest release of the company

Pumatech, Inc. has announced availability of Satellite Forms MobileApp Designer 5.0 software, which complements Pumatech

AvantGo announced the results of the Global Physician Survey. The results concluded a majority of doctors believe that the use of PDAs helps them provide better care to their patients, through timely, relevant information and boosted productivity. The global survey results also indicate that PDAs are an effective tool for pharmaceutical companies to add value to and build relationships with physicians. The physician survey was completed by over 3,000 self-identified physicians responding on their PDAs using the AvantGo mobile Internet service.

MobileSoft, a mobile training and audio content management software company, announced that the latest addition to its product suite, MobileTrainer pharmaceutical edition, is now available for licensing by pharmaceutical organizations. MobileTrainer is designed to streamline the way pharmaceutical organizations distribute critical company information to sales representatives and corporate knowledge workers.

ADACS LLC has been developing calculators for the Palm OS platform. CplxCalPro is a graphical programmable calculator designed to allow you to perform the most advanced calculations and function graphing without any programming.