Marshall Clow has his review of 3Com's Palm Computing's "Second Annual Palm Developer's Conference" starting on page 60 of the MacTech magazine published for Feb99. Some highlighted themes: Palm VII, Developer Opportunities, Other Hardware, How Apple Fits Into The Mix, and General Platform News.

Lars-Ake Lidstrom notes that the Swedish company Spectronic has released a "third generation" Multimedia Telephone that includes a built-in camera and GSM capabilities that support voice, fax, and data communications.

ZDNET's AnchorDesk examines "Which new PalmPilot is better? Palm V vs. Palm IIIx." And ZDNet's PalmPilot Express newsletter for 23Mar99 has been released via ZDNet's PalmPilotSoftware.com site. Some of the editor's discussion topics in this issue: golfing with your Palm Pilot and learning a new language with a PalmPilot. This issue also has pointers to the following "Hot Palm OS Files": PopUp Note, Control Panel, ZipCode+, MAM Suite, CurrencyX, and MagicText.

Telesystem International Wireless' (TIW) subsidiary Dolphin Telecom and Motorola have reportedly formed a wide-ranging strategic relationship for the deployment of TETRA (an open standard for digital radio) in Europe.

SanDisk has announced that their 4MB (US$40), 8MB (US$50), 16MB (US$80), and 32MB (US$130) capacity MultiMediaCards will go on sale in consumer electronics stores in Europe starting in May 1999. These cards can be used in Pontis Electronics' Mplayer3, Nokia's 9110 Communicator, and JVC's Digital DualCam (GR-DVM70U).

Andreas Briell has announced that "EBB- mobile data systems" have released MobileBackup v1.2 for the Newton. This "backup" utility application supplements the Newton Connection Utility (NCU) in many ways and in others is a vast improvement (for instance--auto-backup, time based backup, internal store backup, detailed logging). MobileBackup is US$29 for the electronically downloadable version and US$39 for the disk and paper version.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)