Windows CE

Everex's Freestyle, a palm-size Windows CE 2.0 device, has recently been awarded a Computer Retail Week Editor's Choice Award.

Flash Sheridan (flash@pobox.com) reports that the inaugural meeting of the Stanford Windows CE User Group will be on 30Jun98 at 7pm. Future meetings will be on the last Tuesday of each month. The location for the meeting is Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe in Palo Alto, California. You can learn more via http://pobox.com/~swug/.

Sybase (http://www.sybase.com) is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a public beta of their new Adaptive Server Anywhere for Windows CE devices.

Psion

Psion has announced a major joint venture with Ericsson and Nokia to develop a new version of Psion's EPOC that is 100% Internet wireless savvy.

Some related Psion news -- the latest Psion Series 5 devices are now coming bundled with the desktop software package Lotus' Organizer 4.1 Premium Edition, and Breva Software has announced a new "card bridge game" for the Psion.

PalmPilot

3Com won five "consumer market leadership" awards at the recently held PC Expo 98 for their U.S. Robotics modems and PalmPilot handheld devices.

Check out the following URL on 3Com's PalmPilot WWW site: http://www.palmpilot.com/newspromo/mac_index.html if you are interested in more news about Macintosh to PalmPilot connectivity.

Newton

Elliott Aldrich (elliotta@sirius.com) has created a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Map (BART) in Newton Book format and has posted it to http://www.sirius.com/~elliotta/BART/.

Kenneth Wong (kenneth@chapters.org) notes via e-mail that Simon Bell has released (22Jun98) Simple-mail 3.0 for the Newton via this URL: http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/road/aah66.

Peter Leenes (pmleenes@knoware.nl) reports that Newton software developer NewtBrick has release version 1.0 of MoviePlayer for the Newton. This US$5 shareware application (30-day demo posted) lets you play movies on your Newton or do a photoshow presentation. For more information check out http://www.w4r.com/macbrick/NewtBrick.

Other Devices

Liberty Life Insurance has reportedly equiped over 1200 of their insurance agents with Fujitsu Personal Systems handheld units.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)