Internet Wire has published a press release entitled "Xybernaut and Hewlett-Packard Announce Worldwide Launch of New Wearable Computer." This "ultra-small" device will be called "Mobile Assistant IV (MA IV)" and come with a host of features like a 233MHz Pentium Tillamook CPU, support for up to 128MB of DRAM, a 4.3-GB hard drive, PC Card slots, USB support, and built-in mouse/sound devices.

Access has released version 1.2 of their "embedded" Java compliant Virtual Machine (VM) called JV-Lite designed for Hitachi SH-3 and Mitsubishi M32R/D processors. The VM and class libraries run off a 512KB ROM chip and with only 512KB RAM. In the future, expect support for the following other processors: Fujitsu FR series, Cyrix Media GX, and NEC VR & V800 series; along with operating support for VxWorks, pSOS, OS-9, and Inferno.

Stanford University's Huat-Chye Lim has written a "very pro-PalmPilot" article entitled "Breezier Palmtops?" published for Malay Sunday Mail on 25Oct98.

Starfish Software has announced a new version of TrueSync CE 2.0 that links the REX PRO PC Card with Hewlett-Packard's new Jornada 820 Handheld PC, as well as HP's 360LX, 620LX, and 660LX palmtop devices.

Telxon and Yantra have announced a new alliance agreement under which Telxon mobile computer devices and wireless networking technology will be integrated into Yantra's supply chain execution system called "WMS*Yantra".

It appears that Apple has finally turned off their Newton, Inc. site that was at www.newton-inc.com. All the information on that site has not yet re-appeared on any other Apple site, so users/developers can assume that Apple may have no plans to continue to share the information and downloads. A "search" of Newton using www.apple.com/find turned up a ton of hits but none of the links worked at press time.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)