Short Take: Pervasive announces wireless development kit

Pervasive Software has made available its new wireless application development software product, Tango 2000, aimed at helping developers build Web applications for wireless devices. Tango 2000 supports wireless markup language (WML) and extensible markup language (XML), two popular development standards. Stock in Pervasive gained more than 10 percent. Mobile Internet access and wireless applications are expected to be a booming business in a few years, analysts say.