Handspring has announced that they are offering their one millionth manufactured Visor handheld -- a Visor Prism -- and the first VisorPhone Springboard expansion module for auction via eBay. All proceeds raised from the sale will be donated to Special Olympics Northern California.

Lineo (embedded systems) and Espial (infrastructure software) have announced a new strategic partnership and a global distribution agreement geared to unifying each others product lines to be able to offer to worldwide customers a complete Internet appliance solution (software, hardware, and networking).

DriveSavers Data Recovery has announced a new data recovery service for digital film (SmartMedia, CompactFlash, & Sony Memory Sticks) that has been recommended by Kodak, Olympus, and Nikon. DriveSavers also provides data recovery services for hard drives, floppies, and other data storage technologies.

AvantGo is currently hosting over 650 content channels that can be downloaded and accessed via most handheld devices. Some new offerings: Wine.com, CNET.com Holiday Gift Guide, DrinkBoy, CookingIndex.com, and Hollywood.com; and don't forget our own Pen Computing channel, where you can find our Daily News.

Everypath has announced that they have been chosen to provide mobile access to Alaska Airlines' flight status, flight schedules, and Mileage Plan account activity reports. This solution will use Everypath's Intelligent Rendering process and Mobile Application Platform.

Tsunamidi is a new Palm V savvy MIDI music player that includes: a sound bank, in/out ports, internal speaker, and headphone jack. It also comes with MIDI sequencing software and a composing music package.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)