Precision Navigation has announced a new "up-to-the-minute weather forecasts" solution called Weatherguide that uses an external 3.2-in by 2.3-in plug-on sensor for Palm III form-factor devices. The cost is under US$80.

According to PC Week all of the following companies are supporting or have announced plans to support the Wireless Markup Language (WML)--AvantGo, Digital Paths, OmniSky, Riverbed, Spyglass, and Wysdom. WML is being "managed" by the WAP Forum. [15Nov99 issue, page 10]

Confinity's PayPal.com is a new "startup" operation geared to enabling Palm OS device users to "beam money back and forth" between other Palm OS users & vendors. A desktop PC version is also available for "online" transactions. Nokia has invested over US$3 million in Confinity in recent months. Windows CE support is reportedly note planned for until late 2000.

You can learn more about Mobile IP by searching for IETF's RFC 2002 available via: www.ietf.org. There is also related info at ITU's IMT-2000. Another good reference is James Solomon's book "Mobile IP, The Internet Unplugged" (ISBN 0-13-856246-6).

There is a new online news service called The EPOC News" that is completely focused on reporting the latest and greatest related to www.epocnews.com.

The New York TImes is reporting (24Nov99 via NewsScan) that early last week a Bloomingdale's checkout clerk attempted to steal a customer's credit card number using a credit card reader attached to a Palm Pilot handheld.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com) eFax: 978-246-3067