June 22, 1998

USA Today (15Jun98) reports that the U.S. Justice Department is "investigating" Microsoft's recent Windows 98 and Windows CE co-marketing efforts. [SOURCE: Edupage, 16Jun98]

Microsoft has plans for a new class of Windows CE based devices called "Jupiter class" that will bring more "laptop" type features to Windows CE.

TRG (http://www.superpilot.com) has announced a new memory board for 3Com's Palm III called the "SuperPilot Memory Board II XL" which offers 8-MBs of DRAM and 2-MB of Flash.

Kenneth Wong (kenneth@chapters.org) is curious if anyone has had success using the Newton StyleWriter drivers to print successfully to a Citizen PN60s. Send Kenneth e-mail if you have any constructive input on the subject.

Lewis Miller (sirisaac@ricochet.net) reports that Apple removed the MessagePad 2000 and 2100 displays at their Cupertino HQ's Apple Store on Friday, 19Jun98.

Bernie Bernstone (bbernstone@geocities.com) has released version 1.3 of NewtLibs and version 2.4 of BookReader for the Newton. Both new versions should fix end-user reported bugs and problems.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)