NS Basic has announced that registered users of NS Basic/CE can now check out a beta version of NS Basic/CE Jornada 1.10 that has been optimized for use on the Intel's StrongARM CPU used in HP's Jornada Professional HPC. For more information send email to info@nsbasic.com.

Power Media has announced a "WIN PALM SOFTWARE FOR LIFE" contest where the winner will be sent eleven innovative Palm applications--games, business, and communications titles. Then, every time Power Media publishes a new Palm application, the winner will receive that application even before it is offered to the retail market. You can learn more about this contest that ends 01Mar99 via Power Media's website.

Imagiworks today announced that their PalmPilot based "imagiLab" product was the winner of one of the best of show awards given out by the NE Macintosh & Internet User Group for innovative products at Macworld Expo.

Wired examines Hasbro's future Windows CE based game machines in an article entitled "HANDHELD: TASKMASTER OR TOY?" that is available online.

Michael Pohl has announced the release of 1040EZ 1-2-3 (tax package) and Geek Safe v1.0.2 (data security package) for the Newton. You can learn more via www.newtopia.com.

Christopher Sowada is wondering if there are any Newton developers currently working on or considering a patch to the Currency Exchange portion of the Formulas app to accommodate rate calculations for the Euro.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)