Grinder Gear announced that if you purchase any Grinder Gear PDA SUB (Sport Utility Bag) during the month of September 2001, you are automatically entered to win the adventure of your choice.

Town Compass, LLC and Street & Smith’s Sports Annuals (a division of American City Business Journals, Inc.) are announcing the release of Pro Football 2001 Preview and College Football 2001 Preview Pocket Directory databases for the Palm OS platform. Each database is $14.95, and a free demo is available for download. They can be found at PocketDirectory.com.

CNET News.com reports a new program called AirSnort, released on the Internet this week, lets hackers grab sensitive data as it is transmitted wirelessly through the air–unless certain precautions are taken. According to the article, the program exploits “flaws in a commonly used encryption scheme for securing traffic on a certain kind of wireless network–the one based on a popular standard known as Wi-Fi, or 802.11b.”

Palm has issued a press release stating that from retail sales to publishing, businesses in many industries are seeing rapid, high ROI (Returns On Investments) in handheld computing solutions based on the Palm OS platform. Helping workers manage project information remotely, access up-to-the minute databases, capture signatures, and make better-informed decisions more quickly, Palm OS handheld computers are helping boost efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

More companies than ever before are recognizing the enormous potential of handheld computers–which cost significantly less, and are much easier and faster to use, than laptop computers–to improve their business productivity. These companies are turning to the Palm OS platform because of the wide range of software solutions and services available; the powerful tools for implementing and managing deployment; and the well-designed, intuitive functionality of the handheld products. Palm OS based solutions have become business tools of choice in critical enterprise applications in mobile field sales and service.

Wired.com has an interesting article on the debate over the use of Palm handhelds in schools. While some schools are making the use of handhelds mandatory, others are outright banning the devices, grouping them in with cell phones, beepers, etc.

Steven G. Bush at Brighthand has an editorial on the price plunge among handheld devices brought about by the economic downturn.

Visitors to the Minnesota State Fair are accustomed to the American Dairy Association of Minnesota

ZATZ has achieved another milestone. We are now being tracked by a clipping service. Clipping services are companies hired, usually, by PR firms to scan publications for certain keywords and clip out any coverage about those keywords. For example, if we did a press release, we might want to subscribe to a clipping service to tell us if “ZATZ” appeared in any publications after we did the release. Well, our magazines are now being tracked by WebClipping.com, which is just such a clipping service. This is just one more example of our online magazines being treated with the same respect as traditional print publications!

Keyspan announced new versions of its USB PDA Adapter and its High Speed USB Serial Adapter. The Keyspan USB PDA Adapter (USA-19Q) now has the ability to HotSync Palm OS devices at up to 115 Kbps.

PAWGO introduced and put on sale its Null Modem Adapter for Palm III series products. It will allow users to attach a 9 pin (DB-9) cell phone data cable to a Palm III for easy access to the Web, email, SMS , fax, etc.