The Stanford Pilot User Group meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month--the next meeting will be on 01Sep98. The Guest of Honor will be Oliver King-Smith of Tescina, who will be demoing PocketLog--a graphical application for moving data from the factory floor to the PC. The location of the meeting is Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe, 310 California Ave, Palo Alto, California.

Stephen Williams has an article entitled "Mini-Computers: PCs That Fit in the Palm Of Your Hand" that starts on page 165 of the Men's Journal published for Sep98. The article examines the following handhelds: HP 660LX, Sharp Mobilon HC-4500, LG Electronics Phenom, and Philips Velo 500. The article also looks at the 3Com PalmPilot vs. the Casio Cassiopeia E-10, and briefly notes the Cross Pen CrossPad.

Socket Communications has a new dual-port ruggedized serial communications card that they are calling "Ruggedized Dual Serial I/O Card" for Windows CE users. The card makes it possible to connect handhelds running Windows CE to a host of devices like "high-speed modems, cellular phones, bar code scanners, digital cameras, Global Positioning System receivers, printers, security systems, lab instruments, and monitoring and control equipment."

South China Morning Post has published a short article on 20Aug98 entitled "Casio [Cassiopeia E-10] injects style into the world of the palmtop."

Novatel Wireless has teamed up with Aether Technologies to use Novatel Wireless' CONTACT technology that enables the sharing of real-time data feeds. The first product that Aether will offer to consumers is a real-time financial information service they are calling "Reuters MarketClip" for Windows CE wireless devices using cellular digital packet data (CDPD) connectivity.

Andrew Seybold's Outlook (a wireless-computing newsletter) has announced seven emerging product groups that will come to market over the next 18 months. These include products using handheld technology based on 3Com's PalmPilot, Microsoft's Windows CE, Symbian's EPOC, Motorola's REX, and Geoworks. [SOURCE: Business Wire, 19Aug98]

Martyn Williams at Newsbytes is reporting that Japan's Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd has announced plans to stop making and marketing their cellular telephones in the United States and will instead focus all their attention on the Japanese marketplace.

Nathan Henderson has announced a Newton friendly version of his popular Newton Evangelist web site.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)