PalmMate has announced the release of WorldMate v2.04 for PalmPilot devices. This new "worldwide cities database" provides four analog/digital clocks and a clothing size converter for USA, United Kingdom, and Europe.
Chris Chinnock has a major front page article entitled "DARPA describes vision of wearable computing" published in Military & Aerospace Electronics for Oct98. There are at least eight project under way for Special Operations Command, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army Military Police, and logistics related organizations.
Psion has announced a new detailed, GPS savvy, interactive city mapping solution that combines the Series 5 handheld with Palmtop BV's Street Planner software. The solution provides a mobile user with "comprehensive maps of 2,500 cities within Britain" (data from Navigation Technologies), and another mapping file for cities in Continental Europe (data provided by Tele Atlas). The software sells for under UK£50 and is distributed via CDROM.
InSync Online reports that "Palm Computing User Events" will be taking place in Atlanta (27Oct98), Boston (05Nov98), Chicago (29Oct98), New York (04Nov98), or Philadelphia (03Nov98). You can RSVP to attend by sending email to tkolojes@palm.com.
Wired published for Nov98 has a quick blurb and a picture of the new Vadem Clio Handheld Professional that is Windows CE 2.1 savvy. The device has a "frogdesign" with a "hinged" moveable monitor, weighs 3 pounds, and should support 12-16 hours of battery time. The suggest list price will be just under US$1000.
PelicanWare has announced the release of v4.0 of their Newton spreadsheet solution called "QuickFigure Pro (QFP)" This new version includes many user requested features, "including expandable row heights, cell borders, and workbook support." QFP also supports 70 math, scientific, statistical, date, and financial functions; conditional statements; sorting; a matrix solver; worksheet linking; "lookup" functions; templates; label locking; worksheet password protection; and the external keyboard. The SRP for QFP is US$59.95. Registered users of previous revs can upgrade for US$29.95.
-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)