Concept Kitchen (with design help from Bridge Design) has announced "Bumper" (US$40, shipping in Jul99)--a new "shock-proof and water-resistant case" for Palm Pilot OS devices. Key features: high level of protection, ergonomic industrial design, hideaway lid, dual-stylus ports, built-in loops for straps, pass-through infrared window, and two color options: Sports Yellow or Asphalt Gray.

MCI WorldCom and billionaire investor Paul Allen have announced plans to invest a combined US$600 million in the portable wireless data service company called Metricom in exchange for 87% stake in Metricom. By early 2000, Metricom reportedly has plans to offer near nationwide coverage in large metropolitan areas. [SOURCE: CNET http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38104,00.html.]

San Disk has announced -- #1.) Plans to be a "single source supplier" of CompactFlash (CF), MultiMediaCard (MMC), PC Card, and SmartMedia Flash memory cards to retail channels; and #2.) That they will be supplying MultiMediaCards to Korea's Information & Communication (I&C) for use in I&C's recently announced MP3 savvy "MP Master IM-100 Internet Music Player."

BSQUARE has announced: #1.) a new e-commerce Windows CE driver library called "CE Xpress OnDemand"; #2.) an automated testing suite called "CEValidator"; and #3.) "CE Xpress86" for running and loading Windows CE for developer debugging on x86 Pentium and 486 PCs.

ZDNet's PalmPilot Express (a weekly newsletter) has been posted to ZDNet's PalmPilotSoftware.com. The "Editor's Picks" includes a pointer article to a "collection of aircraft and airport related files," and a more indepth article that examines "Do you really know your automobile? (collection of automobile-friendly files)." This issue also contains references to the following "Hot Files" -- PC Expo 1999 Interactive Show Guide, AnySchedule, Hot Date, IntelliGolf - Birdie Edition, and CityZen.

Lars Bergstrom has announced an "adventurous" release of Scheme 48 ported to Windows CE running on Handheld Pro PC devices (especially the Vadem Clio). This programming development environment release is based on Kali v0.52 and there are some non-standard extensions to the FFI in this Windows CE release.

Heather is "liquidating a company's assets" and has thirty-five (35) M-Systems 16-MB flash PC Cards for sale that were previously being used in Apple Newton OS devices. The current bid price is US$70 per card, and you can send your bids to Heather at her address listed above.