Creative Digital Publishing is now shipping their cross-platform Handheld Systems Archives CD-ROM that covers the first five years of articles and source code (1993-1998). The CD-ROM costs US$49.95 (plus tax and S&H), and includes more than "500 detailed programming articles about the Palm OS, Windows CE, Java, EPOC, GEOS, DOS, Newton, Magic Cap, and other platforms, as well as company profiles, industry news, product reviews, and background articles about key operating systems and wireless technologies."

Mobile & PDA Expo hosted by World Market Strategies will be held 02-04Dec98 in San Francisco, California and will reportedly feature over 3000+ corporate buyers and vendors exchanging ideas and strategies. [SOURCE: Business Wire]

DIGITAL CONTENT NEWS: #1. Knight Ridder's Real Cities online service has teamed with AvantGo to provide Palm Pilot users with access to downloadable mobile information of their choosing, and #2. Santa Rosa Press Democrat's daily on-line publication called "WineToday.com" has announced releasing reviews and software for handheld devices users.

The Fast Company published on Dec98 has a small review article by Heath Row on page 80 that examines the new Pilot Pen's Pentopia T2300 (US$30) and T3240 (US$40) ballpoint/stylus pens.

The wearable computers company XYBERNAUT has teamed with Japan's JAE Corporation to announced a new small form-factor VGA 6.5-inch flat panel display that is integrated with a dedicated internal digitizer.

Cloudscape has announced a new "embedded Java database" designed for distributed mobile applications that support "off-line" computing.

CIO Magazine has a short "Leading Edge" article on page 76 that examines the new Olympus D1000 Digital Voice Recorder handheld device that comes with IBM's ViaVoice Windows software for doing speech to text recognition.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)