LG Electronics has announced a special user-installable upgrade for the Phenom Express--free of charge. It enables users to access the new Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 Handheld PC Professional Edition with Pocket Office Suite 3.0. The new suite of software has new Pocket applications including Pocket Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook. LG will offer the complimentary upgrade to all customers who purchase the Phenom Express before January 15th, 1999. After January 15th, the upgrade price will be US$129. The Phenom Express has a user-installable ROM board, allowing users to easily replace the ROM board with the new upgrade in less than five minutes.

Andrew M. Seybold and Alan A. Reiter's Wireless Data University (WDU) will present key tracks from its acclaimed symposium on mobile computing and wireless data communications at the International Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas, Jan. 7-10) as part of a day-long wireless communications program organized by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association. Seybold is editor-in-chief of Andrew Seybold's Outlook and a frequent contributor to Pen Computing Magazine.

Yahoo says it will offer a way for Pilot users, and possibly others, to update scheduling and contact data on computers using the Yahoo website as a transfer point. They have introduced a test version of a product called TrueSync for Yahoo that will enable users to transfer information from Yahoo online calendars or address books into Palm Pilots or other computer devices running Microsoft Outlook software.

-Ken Mann (kmann@ns.net)