Pen Computing Daily News Archives, January 24, 2001

The Stanford Newton User Group has rescheduled their 7th anniversary meeting for Friday, January 26 at 8 p.m. at Printer's Inc Bookstore Cafe, 310 California Ave, Palo Alto, California. The guest of honor will be Walter Smith, inventor of NewtonScript.

Iomega and Audible have announced an agreement to offer the Audible Internet audio service for Iomega's new HipZip digital audio player.

GeoDiscovery is reportedly now shipping their Geode GPS Springboard Module (US$289) for Handspring Visor devices and GeoView Mobile Software for Palm OS.

Entrust and Nokia have announced plans for a trial Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) digital certificate service for developers and wireless application builders.

Canada's Zi Corporation has licensed their eZiText software to China's United Digital Communications (UDC) for use in UDC's new line of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) products. The license covers the following language implementations: English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)