Motorola has announced that they have shipped over 3 million DragonBall 6828 processors to developers just in the PDA marketplace.

Ruksun Software Technologies has announced a suite of Internet utilities that have been certified to run on Socket's Low Power Ethernet Cards for Windows CE devices. One of the utilities released is News Force v1.0, a USENET newsreader for Windows CE 1.0 and 2.0 devices. The software can be purchased online via MobileSoft or MobilePlanet.

Sharp and Proxim have agreed to partner on promoting Proxim's RangeLAN2 wireless technology (spread-spectrum, low-power technology operating in the 2.4-GHz band) using Sharp Windows CE handheld devices. [SOURCE: Communications Today, 18Aug98]

Power Media is now offering "Everyday Everywhere -- a multi-purpose calculator/converter and area code provider" (US$29.95) written for the Palm OS by Stand Alone software.

Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk is examining in the "Berst Alert" the following topic: "WHY WINDOWS CE IS STRUGGLING (AGAIN) AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE".

Scott Andress, the editor at pilot.org, has written an opinion piece entitled "Why I'm sticking with Palm" which examines Scott's recent "walk on the Dark Side (Windows CE)."

The San Diego Union-Tribune's ComputerLink published on 18Aug98 has two potentially interesting handheld related articles: "Windows CE is the '95' system, but in a much smaller package" by Brit Hume and T.R. Reid (Cox News Service), and "And now, a PC bigger than handheld but lighter than notebook" by David Einstein (San Francisco Chronicle).

Avanti has posted a new update to their Newton QuickPress for Windows (Beta 2). This version fixes several Windows DLLs problems, some interface related fixes, and includes some documentation changes.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)