Handspring has announced new services for their VisorPhone US$299) through VoiceStream Wireless and Powertel. Handspring has also announced that D&H's education division will be responsible for selling Handspring products on university campuses.

Bear River Associates has announced "PAF" -- a C++ application framework (user interface widgets, streams, TCP/IP, & scanning) for developing enterprise applications for the Palm mobile platform. Currently several solutions have been built with this tool, including: Primavera Systems' Expedition Mobile, and YourSherpa.com mobile client.

Need some mobile handheld management that supports Palm OS devices? Then check out XcelleNet's Afaria that can reportedly track both hardware and software assets, file transfers, and data backup status.

Information Products has signed an exclusive sales agreement with Glaverbel Group -- a leading flat glass provider in Europe -- that will enable Information Products to both source and market Anti-Newton Ring (ANR) glass technology to the touch panel industry.

USER GROUPS! -- #1.) The Stanford PalmPilot User Group will be meeting February 6 (Tuesday) at 7:00 pm at Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe 310 California Ave, Palo Alto, California. The guest of honor will be Chirag Patel of Corsoft (who will be demoing Corsoft's messaging solutions); and #2.) Northwest of us, Mobile Computing Group will hold their next meeting February 13 at 7 pm and their guest of honor will be StandAlone Software's Ben Gottlieb (long-time Newton and Palm OS developer).

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)