You can now check out daily editions of Auto.com for Palm Pilot and Windows CE devices using Avantgo's mobile information tool called AvantGo 2.0.

NS Basic Corporation has announced that their new "NS Basic/CE v1.0" development environment (US$99) has been nominated for a "1998 Jolt Product Excellence Award" (to be announced May99) by Software Development Magazine that is being sponsored by Jolt Cola.

Aramis Communications is now shipping "Int'l Traveler 98" for the PalmPilot. This "information knowledge product" includes details about national customs, political and economics stats, and history of countries in "Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and South America."

Iomega has announced that Japan's NEC has licensed Iomega's Clik! technology to build NEC's "USB Clik! Mobile Drive" that will be shipping in the United States in Q2'99.

Peter Belanger reports that he has made a Newton Book of all "the Earthlink dial-up numbers for the USA." You can check it out via home.earthlink.net/~kingdonut/.

Softwarebuero Mueller has announced v1.3.4 of their completely comprehensive "SBM Utilities" for Newton OS devices (US$39 shareware). This utility package lets you customize a host of built-in functions; edit Soup data; and display a wide-area of hardware, software, and operating system related stats.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)