It’s Fictionwise.com’s third anniversary, and they’re celebrating with a store-wide sale. All unencrypted MultiFormat eBooks are discounted 20%, and all encrypted Secure Mobipocket eBooks are discounted 15% from now through June 9.

TaperOff.net has been launched. TaperOff.net is a Web based service to assist smokers who want to quit gradually using “scheduled reduction.” Research studies have proven that “scheduled reduction” is a highly effective method to quit smoking. “Scheduled reduction” is the process of slowly increasing the time between cigarettes until the smoker has quit completely. TaperOff.net, a new Web site and service, manages scheduling cigarettes and notifying the smoker when it is time to smoke each cigarette. Notices are delivered via the Web, email, or mobile phone.

PN Technologies announced the availability of Serial Data Cables for three new Sony Clie PDAs. The new Clies covered are PEG-SJ22, PEG-SJ33, and PEG-TG50.

Neoware Systems, Inc. introduced an all-in-one flat panel thin client designed to offer all of the benefits of thin client computing in a sleek, stylish platform appropriate for high profile computing environments.

Palm, Inc. announced sales of the original Zire handheld have passed the 1 million mark. In recent customer satisfaction surveys (April 2003), the Zire handheld rated higher than all or most other brands in overall satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, likelihood to purchase a Palm handheld again, and value for the price.

fun communications, in collaboration with the Australian manufacturer Pocket Science, has now extended funSMS 3 for deployment with Wassup. The Palm OS software Wassup provides all the day

PdaPointer.com announced its April 2003 picks for the best PDA applications across a variety of Palm, Pocket PC, Handheld PC, RIM Wireless Handheld/BlackBerry, Symbian/EPOC, Embedded Linux/Zaurus, eBookMan, and J2ME software categories. All winning applications are available for download under “The Best of The Best” section of pdaPointer.com.

Metrowerks has licensed its CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to QuickSilver Technology, Inc. for the creation of a comprehensive tool chain for the Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM), Quicksilver’s new class of integrated circuit for use in next-generation mobile devices and communications handsets.

Page Whiz can be used to create 3D page turning digital catalogues, eBrochures, eBooks, manuals, photo albums, quizzes, surveys, etc. in a digital Web book format.

Several major content providers have inked deals with Mazingo to deliver short films and animations through Mazingo