The Edupage published on 23Aug98 notes that Peanut Press (an electronic publisher) will begin "delivering via the Internet" books for users of 3Com PalmPilot devices sometime this Fall 1998. [Information Week, 17Aug98]
Wired's Tom Dowe has an indepth article entitled "The Gadget Gazettes" about the growing number of "marketing" related palmtop, handheld, and wireless WWW sites; and how companies are using handheld devices to market their customers.
SanDisk Corporation has announced that they have made an additional US$11 million investment in thier United Silicon Incorporated (USIC) joint venture semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taiwan. This gives SanDisk a 10% equity state in USIC which will ultimately be able to build microprocessors and other chips using "0.18 micron process and copper interconnect technology."
Reuters (24Aug98) is reporting that Mitsubishi and Hitachi have announced a new partnership to develop a "256MB flash memory chip," and that the new chip will be in mass production sometime in early 1999.
Jack Schofield has a "road test" article that compares and contrasts the first Windows CE palm-size device available in the United Kingdom (UK) -- Philips' Windows CE Nino 300 -- in the Guardian published on 20Aug98.
Looking for detailed wireless related data on the Internet? Then according to a recent article entitled "THE BEST WIRELESS DATA WEB SITES" in Wireless Data (19Aug98) you should check out:
Stand Alone has recently released Start Fast for the Newton (US$10) -- a utility that restarts your Newton faster after a restart -- and two games for the PalmPilot: Backgammon (US$15) and Pit Racer 1.0 (US$10). Stand Alone also has a host of Newton and PalmPilot beta projects that need testers. You can learn more via their WWW site.
Nathan Henderson has announced the release of a new Newton Book -- Robert X. Cringely's "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" version 1.0. The book contains the complete Television mini-series transcript, available on the PBS Online website. "Triumph of the Nerds" for Newton takes up 288K of storage, and is available for the MessagePad 2x00 platform (featuring full-screen display and grayscale graphics). You can learn more via the Newton Evangelist.
F.A. Preve has announced the release of a beta of "NR404" for the Newton (freeware) -- "a beatbox sound creation tool." You can learn more about this product via the Newton Widget website.
-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)