Handspring has reported strong results for their fiscal Q3 2001 -- their revenue was up US$123.8 million (a 261% increase on the same period last year) and a 7% rise on the preceding fiscal Q2.

CNetX has released HandyZIP v1.7 (ZIP compression utility) for Windows CE/PocketPC devices with support for both English and German languages.

The 6th Annual International Conference on Wearable Computing will be held May 30-31 in McLean, VA. For more information, use event code "HUJQ566IHK" at Cvent.

Socket Communications has announced plans to bring their Bluetooth hardware and software solutions to Wind River Systems' VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).

PC World is reporting that Adobe has released a beta of Acrobat Reader for Palm OS that enables handheld devices to view portable document format (PDF) digital content.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)