Information Week Online is reporting that 3Com's Palm Computing's president Robin Abrams has resigned and that Alan Kessler, "a 13-year 3Com veteran who most recently served as senior VP of 3Com's Global Customer Service unit," is now the president of Palm Computing. In related news, Dataquest reports that Palm OS devices accounted for 56% of all handheld channel sales in Q1'99, and that Palm Computing generated 10% of 3Com's 1998-99 fiscal year revenue which was US$5.8 billion.
Hewlett-Packard has announced a suggested retail price cut on their Jornada 420 Windows CE Palm-size PC (PPC) from US$519 to US$449. [SOURCE: AFX]
TCOSoft has released a new suite of system management tools with support for M-Systems' TrueFFS driver technology that enables remote flash memory software upgrades to TCP/IP connected Windows CE devices. [SOURCE: Business Wire]
Mastercard International has reportedly finished working on a customized worldwide ATM (Automated Teller Machine) locator Website that has been optimized for PalmPilot based devices.
There is a new Internet site dedicated to the "portable online community" called "TheDigs" that will reportedly support handheld computing devices.
Motorola's GPS Products division has announced a new "smaller, more flexible designed, and better performance" savvy GPS receiver called the "M12 Oncore GPS."
PC World Online (soon to be renamed "Handheld World"?) has the following articles and software pointers of potential interest:
- "WHEN PAGERS BEAT PHONES AND PDAS"
- Big 2 (popular game from Hong Kong, Palm OS)
- "FINDING A FIT FOR HANDHELDS"