Metaworks won Gold for Small Business of the Year at the Metro Halifax Business Awards dinner, held at the World Trade and Convention Centre. Small Business of the Year is awarded to the company whose prosperity strongly correlates with the company

Senseboard has won Best of COMDEX 2001 in the Best New Technology category. Senseboard is a virtual keyboard that allows you to turn any surface into a keyboard.

Palmtop Publishing has a free Thanksgiving Survival Kit available, complete with interactive table place setting guide, basic toasts, easy graces, seven holiday essential recipes with pre-made shopping lists, and turkey roasting tips.

Pumatech Inc. announced a licensing agreement with Acer. Through the agreement, Pumatech

Palm announced educators attending the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education are taking an important step forward in meeting the goals of New York state for widespread technology training. To give educators the technology tools and the training to be more successful, the NYSCATE is buying more than 2,000 Palm IIIc handheld computers for educators participating in an all-digital conference that starts Sunday at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y.

If you haven’t yet seen the new Star Wars Episode II trailer (I think it was released in the past week), you must, right now, go to see it, and play it. Oh my gosh, do I want to see that movie right now. It’s a long wait ’till May, but hey, when it comes out, Happy Birthday to me! Now, go see it. It’s outstanding.

Handspring announced its Treo communicator was awarded Best of Show in the mobile/handheld system category at Comdex 2001 by Key3Media Group, Inc., and sponsors CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. Treo, introduced last month by Handspring, integrates a mobile phone, wireless applications and a Palm OS organizer into one device.

Cutting Edge Software announced that its new Quickoffice Conference wireless application conferencing technology has been named among the top three new handheld computing applications showcased at COMDEX. Quickoffice Conference was chosen for its ability to enable workgroups to collaborate in real-time on Palm OS computers, regardless of whether the team members are communicating via local area network, wide area network, or infrared.

Trust Digital LLC announced that its new PDASecure application, showcased this week at COMDEX, was named a finalist in the Best of COMDEX competition in the Security Applications division. PDASecure helps corporations protect the data that is stored on their employees handheld computers through password protection, multiple levels of data encryption, and a host of administrative control features.

Rand McNally and Palm, Inc. received a Best of COMDEX 2001 award for the best mobile/handheld software at this year’s event. The award was presented by a group of leading technology publications to Palm and Rand McNally for the co-branded PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas for Palm m505, m500, and m125 handhelds that are based on Rand McNally’s flagship print Road Atlas.