Levenger is now selling the "Rocket eBook" device for US$499 that comes bundled with five electronic books. The Rocket eBook appears to only work with Windows based PCs, and books are being reportedly sold via Barnes & Noble.

Intel has announced the availability of a new StrongARM microprocessor called the "SA-1101" which is part of their popular SA-1100 family of processors that is ideal of mobile handheld devices. Intel also announced that Hewlett-Packard has "confirmed" that they will be using SA-1100 processors in future devices. The SA-1101 supports USB devices, dual-mode display, two PS/2 ports, one IEEE 1284 parallel port, a keyboard interface, and standard serial I/O. The following operating systems are "supported" on Intel StrongARM processors: "Windows CE, OS9, pSOS+, Inferno, JavaOS, EPOC32, and VxWorks."

InfoWorld has five potentially interesting mobile technology related articles:

• "Lightweight Gateway notebook builds in digital video" by Ephraim Schwartz on page 34
• "Handheld devices ready for corporate data access" by Ephraim Schwartz & Clare Haney on page 35
• "Jupiter box to orbit with Windows CE" by Ephraim Schwartz & Bob Trott on page 37
• "Wireless Domino Access to bring Notes functions to PDAs" by Ted Bowen on page 41
• "100 Top Information Technology (IT) Innovators: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center deploys wireless terminals and handhelds" by Renee Gotcher on page 77.

Puma Technology--"the industry leader in Universal Synchronization Solutions"--has announced that their 1st Annual Puma Technology Worldwide Developer Conference will be held Monday, 30Nov98 at the Westin Santa Clara Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The registration cost will be US$249 if you register before 31Oct98, and US$299 if you register later.

Charles Haddad has a "PalmPilot feel good article" published in the 04Oct98 edition of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution entitled "THE PALMPILOT--A friend at hand: Many users hold pocket-size computer close to the heart."

The embedded solutions company called Datalight has announced that they have reached an agreement with BSQUARE to license DataLight's FlashFX (hard-disk emulation technology) for Windows CE. BSQUARE will incorporate FlashFX into their suite of Windows CE software offerings.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)