PC World is reporting that "COMPAQ SHIPS PALM-SIZE CE UNIT -- Aero 1530 (US$299) is a monochrome Palm rival, while the 2180 (color) is a high-end handheld." [OTHER SOURCE: BusinessWire]

Nokia and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have announced plans to cooperate on developing future mobile Internet solutions (hardware & software) using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) conference is going to be held in San Francisco, California 18-19Oct99 iswc.gatech.edu.

EMUmail has announced the release of "HoboMail - A Mobile Mail Server for the Palm VII" that supports "existing user's" POP3 email account access. The backend system -- HoboServer -- is used on the Hobomail.com site, and can be integrated into an existing organization's Web technology infrastructure for US$1250 (Windows NT, Linux, BSD, or Solaris).

Sprint has announced that their U.S. nationwide wireless Internet services called "Sprint PCS Wireless Web" is now available.

Matt Garrison has announced the publication of a Newton Book series that lists "every Apple computer ever, from the Apple I to the PowerMac G3 (Blue & White)." For more information check out: www.apple-history.com.

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