Handspring, Inc. announced that Visor Platinum is once again available for sale to customers. Visor Platinum will be offered for a limited time at a cost of U.S. $169. It comes in a silver casing and offers fast performance, Springboard expansion, and great value for handheld customers.

SRI International and Palm, Inc. will announce the results of a first-of-a-kind study of the integration of handheld technology in K-12 teaching and learning. A news briefing to discuss these findings will take place later today here at the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC). The study results are based on 100 classrooms that used handhelds for teaching and learning. These classrooms were part of the Palm Education Pioneer (PEP) program, which awarded $2.3 million in technology grants to 175 classrooms in the United States. SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) in Menlo Park, CA, is administering and evaluating the program to study the learning uses, experiences, and effectiveness of handhelds for teaching and learning.

Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz reports he survived his interview on Las Vegas’ KOMP 92.3. Here’s his report: It was, um, interesting. Imagine being interviewed by three wanna-be Howard Sterns: Flippy, Dippy, and Skippy (not their real names). This show was kinda shock-jock for the Dodge Durango-driving, gun-rack-in-the-rear-window set.

We did learn a few new things: alternate names for the magazine (and alternate uses for the name), and they discovered a new use for the brand-new Palm m130 color handheld: apparently Al or Craig (they sort of all blurred together into a miasma of mouth) decided that the device would be ideal for storing and toting all the porn he downloaded from the Internet. When he found out he could store his dirty pictures on the SD card, he was in seventh heaven. All in all, though, it was good, unclean fun. Not my usual venue, but hey, it pays to stretch the comfort zone.

TealPoint Software announced the release of TealInfo version 4.00 for Palm OS handhelds. TealInfo is a handheld reference library with a system for creating and displaying interactive data, tables, reference works, and mini-application folios. You can create and view interactive folios with scrolling lists, tables, images, checkboxes, outlines, math calculation, and pop-up windows of information.

Forbes.com, Infinity Softworks, Inc., and PDA Verticals Corporation jointly announced the release of the Forbes.com Productivity Pack for any device running the Palm operating system. Targeted at business and financial professionals, the bundle includes powerOne Finance financial calculator from Infinity Softworks, QuickOffices MS Office companion from Cutting Edge Software, and PrintBoy Deluxe printing solution from Bachmann Software.

Palm, Inc. unveiled the Palm m130 and m515 handhelds. Both feature bright color screens that support more than 65,000 colors and Palm’s dual-expansion technology. The two new color handhelds join the recently debuted Palm i705 handheld, an integrated wireless email and messaging device for U.S. customers, to round out Palm’s early 2002 product lineup. The Palm m130 and m515 handhelds are immediately available in most countries worldwide for an estimated U.S. street price of $279 and $399, respectively.

Want to see the new m130, or give it a spin (literally)? Visit Palm’s m130 home page.

There’s more on the new m515 as well. Just visit Palm’s m515 page for pictures and details.

For those of you in listening range of Las Vegas, Nevada, David will be talking tech tomorrow morning at about 7:45am Vegas time on K.O.M.P. radio at 92.3 on your dial. Tune in and hear whether the big man himself will have had enough coffee to keep up with Craig, Al, and Andy. Is there enough caffiene in the entire world? Tune in and find out.

Palm, Inc. unveiled the Palm m130 and m515 handhelds. Both feature bright color screens that support more than 65,000 colors and Palm’s dual-expansion technology. The two new color handhelds join the recently debuted Palm i705 handheld, an integrated wireless email and messaging device for U.S. customers, to round out Palm’s early 2002 product lineup. The Palm m130 and m515 handhelds are immediately available in most countries worldwide for an estimated U.S. street price of $279 and $399, respectively.