The Stanford PalmPilot User Group meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month -- the next meeting will be on 01Feb00. The Guest of Honor will be John Hanay of OmniSky, demoing OmniSky's wireless modem. The location of the meeting is: Printer's Inc. Bookstore Cafe, 310 California Ave, Palo Alto, California.

According to various online sources, one of the items missing from the recent Transmeta news was the status of "Mobile Linux" that is going to be the core operating system used by S3 and Creative Labs' future "Web pad" devices.

O'Neil has a new mobile ruggedized "microFlash4t" printer in the works that will support Symbol Technologies' Wireless Spectrum 24 RF Communications.

Synaptics' new TouchWriter III can be integrated in to laptops and other types of handheld devices to enable handwriting recognition solutions (ie. signature capture), and enhanced finger input for operating system & application navigation.

SanDisk has announced a two-for-one stock split and released details on their Q4'99 fiscal quarter (record revenue, increased sales, and net income was also significantly higher than 1998).

GPS NEWS -- #1.) Qualcomm has announced plans to purchase SnapTrack; and #2.) NovAtel has announced a new "revolutionary" GPS family of antenna products called "GPS 600 Series"

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