Fujitsu Personal Systems has announced the Windows 98 savvy "Point 1600 pen computer" (US$3375) that is equipped with a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor, a shock-mounted 4.1GB Ultra ATA hard drive, 32MB of RAM (expandable to 96MB), and a 10.4" Super VGA (SVGA) color display (supporting 800 x 600 with 65,536 colors). You can network the device using either the Proxim RangeLAN2 wireless LAN option or a 3Com 56K V.90 global modem option. You can learn more via PC World's article "FUJITSU UNVEILS PEN-INPUT TABLETS: Fujitsu's next-generation touch screen systems are rugged and fast".

Symbol Technologies has announced their "first network appliance" called the "NetVision Data Phone" (8 oz., TCP/IP stack, integrated WWW browser, 12 character by 16 line display, integrated barcode scanner) that supports Symbol's Spectrum24 wireless LANs that includes voice-over-IP technology. Symbol has also recently announced the handheld "CS 2000 laser-based memory scanner" and the Windows CE savvy "PPT 5100 pen terminal."

TidBITS #463 (18-Jan-99) has a review of PalmPilot related products available at the recent MacWorld San Francisco Expo written by Jeff Carlson entitled "Palm Shows More in Hand at Expo."

Don Vollum at PelicanWare notes the posting to their website of documentation for their Newton applications--QuickFigure Pro, QuickFigure Works, PointPro, Notion, and AvailWorks--in PDF format.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)