EFIG.com has announced an 8MB memory upgrade for the 3Com Palm V, Palm III, and Palm IIIx. The upgrade (US$150) can be completed by sending your Palm device to EFIG.com for installation or by customer self installation. The upgrades do void your Palm device's warranty but EFIG.com is working on a "warranty replacement." EFIG.com will also sell you an 8MB Palm V for US$600. [SOURCE: Calvin's PalmPilot FAQ]
Symbol has announced that the Korean Post Office has selected Symbol's pocket-sized SPT 1500 computers for a key role in a future Automatic Mail and Parcel Data Processing project led by the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication.
SanDisk has recently announced:
Michael Groves noted that in the London Sunday Times published on 14Mar99 in their "Innovation" section there was a great deal of information about Psion in an article entitled "Psion's Geoff Kell with prototypes of Jedi and Quantum--Psion plans to launch mini notebooks." These two "new" devices are powered by Intel's StrongARM processor, and the device codenamed "Jedi" is a "small color notebook that is about twice the size of the Psion Series 5 device." The second device, codenamed "Quantum", is a "tablet" designed computer that does not come with a keyboard. The Jedi device is expected to ship "soon" and the Quantum device will ship "later" but before the year 2000.
Network Computing has published on 22Mar99 a comprehensive review of twelve vendors' 802.11-compliant PC Cards and access points within the direct-sequence and frequency-hopping spectrums. The systems were tested at Syracuse University Real-World Labs. The top honors reportedly went to "Aironet, Proxim, and Symbol Technologies."
-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)