Over the past few weeks, Palm has been receiving a lot of press, inspired in part by the companies’ recent announcements that it has lowered its fourth quarter outlook and that it has ended its merger agreement with Extended Systems. However, through a careful look at all the facts, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz has determined in this industry analysis that Palm and its products are both still great investments.

For those of you who understand that it’s important to "dress for success" in order to be successful in business, Mark Asadoorian reviews Orbino Luxury Italian Palm Cases. Custom-fitted and hand-crafted by master craftsmen in Italy from naturally dyed, premium Italian calfskin, these cases are the perfect compliment for your Palm V or Palm m500 series handheld.

If you’re working in today’s fast-paced mobile workforce, you know you can’t afford to waste a minute. For the uninitiated, AvantGo is a Palm device-based Web browser that supports channel-based offline reading. In this edition of his "The Internet in Your Palm Device" column, Michael Connick will show you how to get this powerful software that allows you to download the very latest business news right onto your Palm device.

Mobile technology has already begun to enter the e-learning market. Jeremy S. Kossen has coined the term m-learning to describe this convergence of technologies. In this article, he’ll show you how mobile devices have the power to make e-learning even more widely available and accessible.

How does a company move forward with new mobile technology while still taking advantage of its investment in legacy applications? This is one of the major concerns enterprises face when considering adopting handheld technology. We asked J. Sasidhar to shed some light on the issue. As President and CTO of Dharma Systems, a supplier of e-business integration technologies, he encounters companies in this situation all the time. Here he offers the example of Atomic USA, a ski manufacturer that was looking for a way to link up its proprietary Palm OS-based software to its AS/400 systems.

Our own Heather McDaniel is one of the athletes participating in the U.S.->Canada AIDS Vaccine Ride, in which she’ll ride her bicycle 400 miles over five days to raise money for AIDS research. In this article, you’ll learn how she made use of various applications for the Palm OS to help her train and organize her fundraising. You’ll also learn how you can contribute to this extremely worthy cause.

As we sift through the PalmPower mail bag this month, we find two letters arguing against certain criticisms made in the May issue about the HandEra 330. A PalmPower mobile channel reader is disappointed when one article gets cut short, and another reader wonders how he can display his Date Book calendar on the Web for others to see.

There’s important business to discuss in this month’s editorial from Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz. Not only is long-time employee Heather McDaniel embarking on an exciting 400-mile bike journey to raise money to help find a cure for AIDS, but it’s also time to announce the winner of last month’s PalmPower Scavenger Hunt.

On March 24, Apple Computer released Mac OS X. Palm, Inc. has already stated that it’s hard at work on a Mac OS X version of Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager software for release later this year. Before that happy day arrives, Contributing Editor Bob Draper wants to get his two cents in by offering up this list of the "Top Ten" improvements he’d like to see in the next version of Palm Desktop for Macintosh.

Chris Phillips has taken a good hard look at the new Palm m500 and Palm m505, which feature a faster processor, version 4.0 of the Palm OS, a new universal connector that supports USB, an expansion slot, and vibrating alerts, among other exciting enhancements. Has Palm created the ultimate handheld, or is there room for improvement? Find out in this cool review.