Pen Computing Daily News Archives, July 26, 1999

Teletype has announced three new tidbits of news -- #1.) They are now a AT&T Wireless Data Solutions Member allowing Teletype to offer AT&T cellular digital packet data (CDPD) services to customers; #2.) Their latest rev of their Windows CE software package called TeleType GPS now supports the HP Jornada, Delorme's Earthmate, and "Door to door routing via the Internet"; and #3.) TeleType is now offering a PC Card GPS receiver package for Windows CE/95/98 devices in the under US$700 range.

Chuck McManis recounts the events and happenings at the recent June 1999 JavaOne conference including details on the "Palm V frenzy surrounding Sun's Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME)" developer release www.javaworld.com/jw-08-1999/jw-08-palmv.html?072199txt.

JVC's Victor Co. of Japan is reportedly working on a new notebook style PDA that will offer unique audio-visual in/out features. [SOURCE: Nikkei English News]

Palm Zoo has released "Sign Alphabet v1.0 for Palm OS (US$5 shareware) -- that makes it easy to learn the sign language alphabet." This package is also available via PC World Download via: www.pcworld.com/fileworld/file_description/0,1458,6498,00.html.

ARM Holdings (UK) has announced that they are in talks with Texas Instruments (TI) over a potential new license for ARM microprocessor technology to be used in future products from TI.

The Stanford PalmPilot User Group (SPUG) meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month -- the next meeting will be on 03Aug99. The Guest of Honor will Dave Menconi, Palm Clipping Project Lead for the Palm VII, and author of the PQA development chapter of the O'Reilly PalmPilot Ultimate Guide. The location is: Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe, 310 California Ave, Palo Alto, California.

Leander Kahney at Wired has an interesting article from Macworld NYC 1999 entitled "LONG LIVE THE NEWTON: Forget the Palm Pilot, the Newton is still tops with people at Macworld." The article also has comments on the "new cultural icon called iMac" and the "lack of good parties at this year's expo." www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/stor y/20901.html