Woman Calendar tracks health-related details specific to women. The program is useful in monitoring menstrual cycles, predicting and charting ovulation data and fertility times, printing ovulation charts, scheduling and documenting doctor appointments, and maintaining other health-related information.

When handheld computers came into being, a new medium for digital art presented itself. The choices range from simple applications made to write freehand notes, such as the Notepad program included in many newer devices, to feature-packed programs nearly rivaling many desktop ones. One of the leaders in the later category is TealPoint’s TealPaint for the Palm OS. How does it stack up? To find the answer, read this review by David Silver.

This week, we’ve been hard at work at the bigger story: all the changes with Palm and the Palm OS. Last week, in "The continuing mystery that is Palm, Inc.," we looked at some of the core issues with Palm’s changes. One of the biggest issues, of course, is how the Palm developer community will fare after all the dust settles. We asked five developers five key questions. Will there be new Palm OS software? The answers are in this article.

Nextel’s a very interesting firm, especially now that it’s merged with Sprint. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz recently had the opportunity to interview Rob Consolazio, a senior executive at the firm, about business applications of mobile GPS telephony. You’ll notice that most of the company references in this interview refer to Nextel, rather than Sprint Nextel. That’s because the interview took place just before the firm’s name changed to Sprint Nextel.

The history of the mobile ad-hoc networks goes back to the early 1970s, when they were first used in DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). How are these networks used today? Is the technology sufficient? In this article from Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht, he answers these questions and explains why mobile ad-hoc networks are vital to combat operations today.

Mobile ad-hoc networks offer benefits that can’t be experienced with fixed network technologies. On the other hand, there are still a lot of issues which need some sort of resolution before we can have more impressive results from these types of networks. In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht looks at current wireless structures, their usage in different environments, and some possible flaws in them.

In normal sense, mobile ad-hoc networks refer to the short term temporary networks which can be formed by two or mobile devices anywhere and anytime. These networks are one of the best choices for combat operations, as in most of the cases these operations run for a short interval of time. In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht will highlight combat operations in general, the use of mobile ad-hoc networks in these operations and the issues that are involved in establishing an effective group communication during combat operations utilizing mobile ad-hoc networks as a networking technology.

So, Palm is going to produce what is essentially a Pocket PC phone. Palm also sold off the Palm OS, which was its primary differentiating factor. Does that mean the Palm OS is dead? Should you stop buying Palm PDAs? Should you stop developing software for the Palm OS? Read Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz’ analysis to learn what we think.

So you want to install a wireless network for your home or small business. What should you consider before making a purchase? Is one wireless standard better than the other? Is a wireless network really better? In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht answers these questions that will be sure to help you determine if a wireless network is right for you.

As Stanford historian Leslie Berlin tells it, she once set out to write a history of Silicon Valley. Soon, she realized that one name kept coming up: Robert Noyce. Figuring that it’d be a good idea to read a biography, she discovered there wasn’t one available. After years of work, she’s completed that biography and has written an original article for Computing Unplugged about the "man behind the microchip".