Mary Eisenhart has a very interesting article and interview at Salon Magazine with former 3Com executive Donna Dubinsky who recently departed 3Com with PalmPilot inventor Jeff Hawkins to form a new handheld related company. The article is entitled "How Palm Beat Microsoft: One of the PalmPilot's Parents Explains Its Success". [SOURCE: OS News]
AvantGo has release AvantGo 2.0 for Palm OS and Windows CE devices. The following companies have all announced either support for AvantGo 2.0 or the integration of AvantGo 2.0 into their product offerings: Casio, Novatel Wireless, UpShot, and Visto.
Tegic Communications has announced plans to develop a version of their "T9 text input technology" for future "wireless information devices" that run Symbian's EPOC (a joint initiative between Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion).
You can learn more about a possible IBM wearable PC product. [SOURCE: Scripting]
Lee Leonard at Tempest Productions reports that the San Jose Mercury News website "Mercury Center" is reporting that Qualcomm has recently demoed a "digital wireless phone [aka 'pdQ'] fully integrated with a Palm Pilot handheld computer."
The WEB-VANTAGE's Weekly Wrap published on 20Sep98 has three articles of potential interest:
Nikkei English News is reporting that Casio has plans to introduce a new "business person" PDA entitled "Pocket Caleid XM-500" on 25Sep98.
Fujitsu's new "24x7 mobile communications system" called "ByeDesk" has been extended to support PalmPilot, cellular phone, and alpha-numeric pager devices.
Serg Koren has announced the release of two updated Newton solutions: Newt'sPaper 0.9 (USENET newsreader) and Newt'sWeather 0.9 (Internet weather info-service checker). You can download these shareware solutions via VisualNewt Software.
Rich has announced that President Clinton's "White House Replies" have been posted to his site in Newton Paperback format to go along with the "Starr Report" Newton Paperback editions.
-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)