Handspring -- REVIEW: PC World has posted a review of a "pre-production" Handspring Visor vs. 3Com's current Palm Computing offerings via: www1.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,12950,00.html. BUSINESS UPDATE: Forbes Magazine examines the "Palm Flop - Handspring should be busy inducting members into a new palmtop cult. Instead, it's trying to avoid corporate suicide" www.forbes.com/forbes/99/1129/6413126a.htm. [Some information via: Garage.com].

Riverbed Technologies has been named in the "Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000" by Computerworld.

ZDNET is giving away a HP Jornada 430se (aka "James Bond version?!?") via: www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4165.html and they also have a piece by Nicci Noteboom entitled "GIVE SOME HANDHELD HOLIDAY SPIRIT".

Cutting Edge Software has announced a new interface that will allow seamless transmission of data between the Palm OS spreadsheet called "Quicksheet" and Imagiworks' ImagiProbe (a data collection and data visualization software products).

IBM Japan is reportedly in the middle of testing a new wearable computer in Japan that could go on sale early next year according to CNET.com via Yahoo Online.

Phone.com (formerly Unwired Planet) is predicting that by the year 2003 that there will be 1 billion wireless mobile phone users worldwide and nearly half of them will be connected to the Internet using wireless technology. [SOURCE: Reuters via San Jose Mercury News]

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com) eFax: 978-246-3067