Communications News (Jul98) has a major review article entitled "Born to Roam" written by a team of evaluators (Ron Kovac, Adam Neise, and Brian Redden) from Ball State University. The article begins on page 24 and examines the following products: Aironet's 3500 Series (FHSS), Breezecom's Pro Series (FHSS), Lucent's WaveLAN2 (DSSS), Netwave's AirSurfer Plus (FHSS), Proxim's RangeLAN2 (FHSS), and Raytheon's Raylink (FHSS).

Heroix Corporation is giving away a Palm III device via their special events page. The company makes "automated problem detection and correction software" for Windows NT, Unix, and VMS servers.

Small Dog Electronics has the following "new" items in stock: Toshiba Libretto 70CT (US$1335), Philips Magnavox Nino 301 (US$373), and 3COM Palm Pilot Professional with a leather carry case (US$259).

Ted Kenney notes that Raima Corporation's RDM/CE is a shipping database solution for Windows CE devices with a small storage footprint of just 150K. The core engine, in the Windows CE product, is also used in high-end industry real-time and embedded solutions. The product will also link-up with Microsoft's C/C++ and Visual Basic development environments.

Steve Silberman examines a host of new "handheld electronic books" that should be out this Fall 1998 in an article entitled "Ex Libris: The joys of curling up with a good digital reading device" on page 99 of Wired published on Jul98. The three big products are called: SoftBook's Virtual Press, RocketBook's NuvoMedia, and EveryBook's EveryBook.

Reuters is reporting that Motorola will be announcing their new line of "digital wireless phones" on Tuesday (21Jul98), and that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is going to join Motorola in a "technology-sharing alliance" in the hopes of making each other's processor offerings faster.

Softwarebuero Mueller has released version 1.3.2 of SBM Utilities for the Newton. This version has some bug fixes and some minor GUI enhancements. This utilities package costs US$39, there is a 30-day demo available on the WWW, and this version is free to registered users.

Kenneth Wong notes that the new Newton specific site called "newtonMAD" has more Newton-browser capabilities including software download. The Search Engine page and the Guest Book page are still not "Newton savvy" but will be soon.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)