Tim Burke examines "Linux/Unix System Monitoring in the Palm of Your Hand" via Unix Review Magazine.

Nextel Communications has announced two new mobile phones -- the i85s and the i50sx -- that offer support for Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Micro Edition and include basic personal information manager (PIM) capabilities.

Laptop vendor Dynamism has created a web page devoted to highlighting Transmeta Crusoe-processor-enabled laptops from companies like Sony, Fujitsu, NEC, and Casio.

TomTom is offering via Palmtop the PalmOS savvy Financial Calculator for US$15 that supports English, French, German, and Dutch languages. This calculator includes: mortgage, mark-up/mark-down, depreciation, growth/return, and conversion calculation capabilities.

Pumatech's Intellisync for Psion is expected to be released as soon as Psion releases PsiWin v2.33 for EPOC OS devices.

Xplore Technologies has announced a new collaborative engineering and marketing agreement with Argonaut Computer to expand their respective mobile computer marketplace sales and service contracts.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)