Mark/Space Newsletter #12 reports the release v1.1 of PageNOW! for PalmPilot .

"Throttle" is a new pen/stylus from ttools for PalmPilot devices. The pen part of Throttle uses standard ballpoint ink cartridges.

MIT's Technology Review for Sep/Oct98 examines "Ted Nelson's Big Step" that starts on page 45 written by Steve Ditlea. Ted Nelson has been trying to create "Xanadu" for the last 38 years. He has a new product out (BTW... his first in 38 years) called "ZigZag" and while being interviewed for the article Nelson wears Xybernaut's wearable computer.

The LAN Times published on 17Aug98 has a "Portable Organizers" article written by Al Berg entitled "Keeping data at hand: Connect PalmPilot to your network for email and scheduling ease" on page 44.

The Gazette published on 31Aug98 has an article entitled "Most hand-held computers now include pagers" written by Dave Johnson which mentions solutions from: PageMart, 3Com's Palm III, Motorola's Synapse Pager Card, Windows CE, GTE's One Connect Service, Fitc, Texas Instrument's Avigo, and Socket Communications.

The Milwaukee Sentinel & Journal reported way back in 10Aug98 that "Handheld devices help many keep their grip--Survey finds the most commonly used model is 3Com PalmPilot." The survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) questioned some 600 business executives and found some 70.4% using PalmPilot devices. The article notes that the following sites have a great deal of pointers to 3rd party PalmPilot savvy products:

• Pilot Gear
• Palm Pilot Zone
• palm central.com
• ZDNET's PalmPilotSoftware

The Advocate Baton Rouge LA published on 16Aug98 has an article entitled "Old, new technology available for ebooks" that mentions future products in the works from:

• Everybook, Inc. (Everybook Dedicated Reader)
• SoftBook Press (SoftBook)
• NuvoMedia (RocketBook)
• Librius, Inc. (Millennium Reader)

Lernout & Hauspie has announced the porting of L&H's text-to-speech engine to Franklin Electronic Publishers' RISC ES-1 microprocessor that is currently being used in their WEB-VANTAGE's "Weekly Wrap" published on 07Sep98 has a pointer to a recent press release entitled "Spyglass Develops Device Mosaic for Windows CE".

Michael Pohl has released for download v0.9b of Geek-Safe for Newton devices. This freeware software is a "compact package" that "keeps track of passwords, serial numbers, account numbers, and the like."

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)