Palm OS news: #1.) Palm has taken over all the assets of Be, Inc. [infoworld]; #2.) Handspring's new Treo is getting a lot of attention [infoworld]; and #3.) Palm CEO Carl Yankowski has resigned, Eric Benhamou (Palm chairman of the board) will serve in his place until a permanent successor is named.

Adobe, Xerox, Yahoo, and other companies have formed a new service called "PrintMe" by Electronics For Imaging (EFI) that would enable mobile devices to "seamlessly" print via a network of wildly accessible printers. [wired]

Some screenshots of Quake running on a Zaurus handheld: http://www. insomniq.com/files/zaurus/shots/quake.html.

CNET reports that Nokia's new 92100 Communicator smartphone has captured a significant amount of new handheld sales in the third quarter of 2001.

The Compaq iPAQ handheld will reportedly run Linux 2.4 kernel. [uni xreview]

PC World has recently examined:

• Microsoft's new Tablet PC
• Comdex Handheld and Mobile Announcements
• New version of Microsoft Windows CE/PocketPC
• NEC has a new PocketPC handheld
  
• Airport security checkpoints are using wearable computers
  
• Sony has a host of new "consumer" gadgets
• Mobile security for handheld devices is a Comdex concern
  
• Samsung and Senseboard are developing wearable keyboards
• Palm OS devices get access to Motient's wireless net
  

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)