For those of you wondering where we were (or at least our Web sites were) last night, the folks who feed us our T-1 lost a good chunk of the East Coast last night. Heck, maybe this is what the FBI was warning us all about!

mFormation Technologies Inc. and GoAmerica Inc. announced they will team to offer secure, controlled, and fully managed wireless data solutions to corporate customers. As part of GoAmerica’s wireless offering, mFormation Enterprise Manager will provide customers with improved security and control over growing wireless deployments. In addition, mFormation will integrate GoAmerica’s infrastructure with its offering, benefiting from GoAmerica’s carrier connections and Network Operation Center technology. Baylor Health Care System is the first customer to adopt the combined solution.

Cutting Edge Software announced it received several awards at Handheld Computing Magazine’s Best Palm Powered Products Awards ceremony held at the PalmSource conference last week. Winning in more categories than any other company, Cutting Edge Software’s Quickoffice was honored as Best Office Suite and the company’s Quicksheet was named the industry’s best spreadsheet. In a new category, Cutting Edge Software’s new Quickoffice Conference Edition received a Special Award for Wireless Innovation. The company also was named a finalist in the category of Best Document Editor/Reader for its Quickword application.

Palm announced Palm OS handheld computers are becoming a useful tool in the fast-paced, deadline-driven trucking industry to communicate with dispatchers, report information or problems, and better serve customers. Truck drivers often encounter electrical or mechanical problems that are hard to diagnose on the road; Palm handhelds can provide drivers with critical diagnostic information to understand and resolve issues. They can also help to avoid communication problems and misunderstood invoices, and save companies money by getting customer information to back offices quickly.

Drs Jonathan Winehouse MD, CEO AssociaMedSM and Rakesh Patel, CTO MedsPDA have announced their new Web sites AssociaMed and MedsPDA have joined forces to launch a medical community where Doctors and scientists from all over the world can meet online to discuss information, ideas, research, educational activities, and share handheld software.

Palm, Inc. noted that Palm Digital Media was named Best eBook Publisher by Handheld Computing Magazine when it announced its list of Best Palm Powered Products of the Year for 2001. Palm Digital Media won top honors in its category for what the editors call the "amazing" quality and selection of its electronic books. Palm Digital Media offers more than 4,000 eBooks from most major U.S. publishing houses.

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FileMaker unveiled FileMaker Mobile 2 Companion for Palm OS, new software to transfer and synchronize data between FileMaker Pro 5.5 v2 databases on desktop computers and Palm OS handhelds.

DataViz, Inc. announced a new Add-On Kit for Documents To Go Professional Edition. The updated Add-On Kit incorporates a new handheld application, Pics To Go, as well as SmartChart Technology. The Add-On Kit comes free with the purchase of Documents To Go Professional Edition.