Gina Imperato has an interesting article, with photos from Christopher Harting, that examines the current state of mobile computing published on page 263 of the Fast Company for Nov98. The article is entitled "The Road Test: collect the top-rated gear for road warriors, take it all on a 36-hour business trip, and what do you get?" Some things she checked out include: ZERO Halliburton computer case, Judith Gilford's The Packing Book, Compaq's C-Series HPC, Franklin's REX Pro, Sony's MZ-R50 MiniDisc, HP's OmniBook Sojourn, Beepwear pager watch, Canon's BJC-50 color printer, and InFocus' LP240 projector.

AmbiCom is now shipping their Windows CE savvy "AMB8010 Power Saver Ethernet PC Card" (US$129) for Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition devices. The card also supports systems running Windows 95/98/NT.

Creative Digital Publishing has announced a new email based news subscription service called "Handheld Systems News" that will cover the handheld and mobile computing marketplaces. The service will cost just under US$25 for one year.

TipWorld's "New Product Gossip of the Day" published for 23Oct98 examines Hitachi's new Notebook Traveler mini-notebook PC that weighs just 2.9 pounds. The device will come with a 266MHz Pentium II processor, and is expected to be available shortly after Nov98's Las Vegas COMDEX at a price just under US$2000.

New World Software has announced Clarity 1.1 for Newton OS 2.1 (US$45): "a personal productivity tool for teachers (take attendance, create lesson plans, track professional expenses, create notes, evaluate student performance, and print 7 different kinds of reports) which runs on the Apple eMate 300 and MessagePad 2000/2100 PDAs."

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)