Palm Computing has many announcements today. Most significant is the Nationwide release of the Palm VII. Price on the VII has been dropped from US$599 to US$499, and a new service plan has been put in place: US$39.99 per month gives you 300K, and users who sign up between now and Jan 4, 2000 will get 1,000K per month for the first six months of service. See Palm Section for other announcements, including the New Palm Vx.

The Stanford PalmPilot User Group (SPUG) meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month -- the next meeting will be on 05Oct99. The Guest of Honor will Tammy Medanich of Palm Computing (Product Marketing Manager for the Palm VII). The location of the meeting is: Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe, 310 California Ave., Palo Alto, California.

GoPDA.com which also publishes PalmCentral.com for Palm OS specific devices has also recently announced the availability of CEStation.com for Windows CE devices.

Extensity has announced that all their current Internet applications are compatible with Handspring's new Visor Palm OS savvy platform devices.

Richard Holt is interested in "hooking up" with a Taiwanese or Hong Kong manufacturer of pen-based tablet computers that run on Intel Pentium processors (Windows 98/NT compatible). Richard's "endeavor" will more than likely require over 1000+ units; and Richard has looked at the Fujitsu Stylistic, but has found them too expensive. Send Richard email if you have an pointers.

Foundation Systems has announced "iKnapsack" for Palm OS (US$10, 31-KB, demo available) -- "tiny plug-in program architecture that can communicate with content on the Internet and with third-party Palm applications."

This Old Newt has announced that the "October" update has been released with: updates to the "links" pages; an interview with Newton programmer Matt Vaughn; and pointers to Newton FAQ sites.

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