Palm announced plans to purchase ebook developer and retailer Peanutpress.com that offers ebooks via netLibrary (from sources like: Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Michael Connelly, and the Wall Street Journal) for both Palm and PocketPC/Windows CE devices.

Go Mobile Spring 2001 Conference will be held Apr 22-25 in Orlando, Florida. Topics to be covered: new technologies, issues, and trends; plus integration, acquisition, and deployment tactics.

Electric Pocket's BugMe! messenger application allows a user to write captions on digital photographs taken using IDEO Springboard camera modules for Handspring Visor devices. These annotated pictures can then be sent via email using desktop synchronization or wireless connectivity from providers like OmniSky/GoAmerica.

InFocus has announced a new high-end large venue projector -- the Proxima Pro AV 9410 (US$20K) that offers: 3700 lumens; SXGA (1280 x 1024) images; multiple inputs (S-video, HDTV); and 600:1 contrast ratio.

Compaq has released a v1.69 ROM upgrade patch for their English iPAQ H3600 devices.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)