July 9, 1999

Anthony Santarosa notes that Palm Colors has "replacements shells" in "iMac colors" for Palm OS devices.

Radica Games Limited and Electronic Arts have announced a new strategic alliance that gives Radica exclusive worldwide licensing rights to market EA SPORTS branded electronic handheld games.

ZDNet's PalmPilot Express (a weekly newsletter, 06Jul99) has been posted to ZDNet's PalmPilotSoftware.com. The "Editor's Picks" includes a pointer article to a "Favorite free files," and a more indepth article that examines "Messages anywhere - Outlook, AOL, newsgroups." This issue also contains references to the following "Hot Files" TealPhone, Balls!, Net Book, AvantGo.com, and Backdrop (J. Freeman).

Diamond Entertainment has announced their first Windows CE device -- the PD-500C Palmsize PC. Diamond Entertainment also offers sub-notebook devices that run Windows 98.

Geoff Chan reports that he is looking for a Newton programmer who might be interested in or is already building a "Babylon 5" game tracker.

PC World has the following articles and software pointers of potential interest:

- AnySchedule (sport team schedules, Palm OS)

- MUSIC AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - MUSICWISE CATALOGS

- PocketChess (Palm OS)

- Beer Master (rate & categorize, Palm OS)

- COMPAQ THINKS THIN

- VENDORS JUMP ON JUPITER

- HANDHELDS TELL YOU WHERE TO GO

- FretBoard (reference tool, Palm OS)

- A PORTAL FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE

- QMate (Quicken tool, Palm OS)