Skyscape announced the release of “Mosby’s Drug Consult & Interactions 2006” formatted specially for PDAs and smart phones. Mosby’s Drug Consult & Interactions 2006 provides convenient, take-anywhere access to current, unbiased, accurate, and reliable drug information. It contains approximately 1,000 generic drug entries and many more prescription drug products indexed by generic name, U.S. brand name, international brand name, indication, and drug class.

It’s here again: New Year’s resolution time! Writing out your goals and setting out the steps that lead to achieving those goals improves your chances of actually meeting your goals. Having your goals in your Palm, always accessible, should make your success nearly certain. There are many goal-setting and planning programs available, and Contributing Editor Heather Wardell tested five of them in this article. What’s the right choice for you? You’ll have to read Heather’s article to find out.

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John Diebold, a business visionary who preached computerization during the era of Elvis and Eisenhower as the future of worldwide industry, has died at the age of 79. Diebold died of esophageal cancer Monday at his home in suburban Bedford Hills, said a nephew. Although Diebold is now hailed as a prophet of the computerized future, his zeal for computers was not widely shared in the 1950s. Diebold laid out his vision of a computerized future with his 1952 book, “Automation,” which presented the then-radical notion of using programmable devices in daily business.

Samsung Electronics said on Monday it may sell NAND flash memory chips to Japanese electronics maker Sony and others, underpinning expectations for surging demand for the chips. Samsung shares rose to an all-time high as investors expected these contracts to strengthen the company’s hold on more than half the world’s NAND chip market.

South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official said Monday. In a country where about 75 percent of the population carries mobile phones, prosecutors felt it was time to move away from sending legal notices on paper and send them electronically instead.

Opera has denied the latest takeover rumor spreading across the Internet, saying that it has not had approaches from Microsoft or anyone else. Rumors surfaced on Friday that Microsoft is close to completing a takeover offer for the Norwegian browser vendor, having outbid Google. If Microsoft were to buy Opera it would effectively reduce the battle for browsers on Windows PCs to two contenders: Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation.

Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, has joined the legions of individuals airing their personal musings on the Internet by launching his own blog. Noting that the initial objective of the Web was to be a space for sharing information, Berners-Lee wrote in his initial blog post that it “took off” as a publishing medium.

Verizon Communications said Friday that Washington state telecommunications regulators had approved its purchase of MCI, which sets the stage for Verizon and MCI to close the deal in early January. With the OK from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, the companies have now received all required regulatory approvals.

Everything old is indeed new again, including fears that prolonged exposure to loud music from portable-media devices can lead to significant hearing loss. Northwestern University audiologist Dean Garstecki has issued a warning to the roughly 37 million iPod owners to turn down their tunes–or else.[Take it from someone who knows from personal experience, invest in noise-canceling headphones and turn down the volume, otherwise you’ll be saying, “What?” to everything your partner says.–Ed.]

The staff here at ZATZ Publishing would like to wish all of our readers, wherever they may be, Happy Holidays. Whatever winter holiday you observe, our thoughts are with you, our readers, who make all of our work throughout the year worthwhile.–The ZATZ Staff