Hands High Software has a software package for Palm OS devices called "Trip Deluxe" that lets a user accurately record mileage information for up to 15 cars. Data from Trip Deluxe can be exported to Microsoft Excel format for custom reports.

Aportis has announced a new Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document converter to AportisDoc format for handhelds. The US$150 converter works with Windows-based PCs, and will available for free for non-commercial purposes for the next 6 months.

Fictionwise.com has announced new short fiction works from Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, Damon Knight, and Tom Purdom that can be downloaded to handheld devices.

BeepWear is a site by Motorola and Timex that highlights their recent BeepWear pager watch family of products.

PC World is reporting "PDA SALES TO DOUBLE IN 2000 -- Sales of handheld computers are up, thanks to falling prices and the new Handspring Visor."

Spring PCS has announced a host of new services focused more toward enterprise mobile users than on consumer road warriors. Part of these solutions include collaboration with partners like Lotus, PeopleSoft, Sabre, Siebel Systems, and Wireless Knowledge. Pricing will start at approximately US$50 a month offering web-based email, voice mail, and data access connections (wired/wireless) running between 14.4-Kbps to 56-Kbps.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)