The long-awaited Palm m505 is appearing in Office Depot stores, according to our readers. Check out our Palm Section and Palm Forum for more information on the product, and on other new Palm devices.

Seapine Software has ported its SoloBug software to the Palm OS platform. The stand-alone bug reporting application can be optained at www.seapine.com.

The Sixth-Annual International Conference on Wearable Computing (ICWC 2001) is scheduled for May 30 and 31, 2001. It will be at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, VA. Xybernaut, IBM, and Texas Instruments will have a major announcement at the show. See www.xybernaut.com for more information.

Handspring has begun offering the Handspring Protection Plan, giving customers the option of extending warranty coverage on their Visor handheld and VisorPhone products. Each of the plans includes "quick and easy turnaround on all returns and repairs." Extending the warranty for 12 months would cost from US$29.99 to US$49.99.

Zebra Technologies, thermal printer manufacturer, announced their partnership with Bachmann Software to provide Palm OS beaming support via their PrintBoy software.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)