PalmInfocenter reports Ed Colligan, Handspring’s chief operating officer, admitted that leaving color out of the Visor Edge was a mistake, according to an article published this weekend by The San Francisco Chronicle. The article also talks about a forthcoming product from Handspring that will include wireless capabilities built-in.

Precise Sales & Research introduced PalmOnMac.com, an interactive Palm handheld/Mac users’ community fueled largely by reader participation and contribution. PalmOnMac.com provides a number of interactive and communicative services designed to help Mac users maximize the capabilities of their Palm OS handheld computers.

BLUE MITT a wholly owned brand and PDA Software Division of Pillar Box, Inc. has released Word Squares for the Palm OS. Word Squares is a crossword player. Included with Word Squares is BLUE MITT

AvantGo announced new educational services for mobile and wireless developers throughout the world. Through its new developer support Web site, AvantGo Educational Services is now providing enterprises interested in mobile technologies with an integrated e-learning solution. Developers can post articles related to their application development, ask questions to AvantGo developers at large, post links to downloads useful for creating mobile applications on the AvantGo platform, and even post reviews about AvantGo products and services.

STNE Corporation announced the arrival of replacement screens. STNE can replace broken glass or a damaged LCD in your Palm handheld.

Qvadis, makers of Express Reader, have picked NY Times bestseller Nellie Bly’s The Kennedy Men as the eBook-of-the-Month for August 2001. This ebook portrait traces the Kennedy history from the marriage of Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph Kennedy to the exploits of the third generation, revealing little-known facts about the men who play by their own rules, and the events that have shaped the family: John F. Kennedy’s rumored first marriage, the Oval Office tapes, the night Marilyn Monroe died and the cover-up that followed, the Good Friday rape case, Teddy Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick tragedy, and more.

Supplynet announced they have developed direct connect cellular cables for all Handspring Visors and Palm handhelds to fit most cellular phones including Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, Kyocera, Audiovox, and others.

Free registration is required to read this New York Times article on The Active Corporation’s portable heart monitor for use with Palm handheld devices. Called the Active ECG, the unit includes electrodes that attach to the patient, plus a cable that attaches to a Palm handheld. According to the article, the device “sends recorded heart data to the Palm computer where it can be viewed, printed, or transmitted by wired, and eventually, wireless modem to a doctor or perhaps a hospital emergency room.”

Excite.com reports Metricom Inc., a wireless high-speed Internet provider that filed for bankruptcy protection last month, is shutting down its Ricochet network and laying off 282 employees. According to the article, the network will be turned off Wednesday in all 15 markets where service is currently offered.

DataViz, Inc. and Palm, Inc. announced Documents To Go Professional Edition Version 4.0, which enables Palm handheld users to create, view, and edit Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint presentations in one complete package. Mobile professionals now will have the ability to view PowerPoint files with a new application called Slideshow To Go.

Other improvements in Version 4.0 include the ability to create and edit Excel-compatible spreadsheets with Sheet To Go, save and synchronize large documents directly to Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard media using Palm m500 series handhelds, and synchronize documents between multiple computers. DataViz’s DocSync technology provides seamless synchronization by giving users the freedom to make changes on their handhelds without losing the desktop document’s original formatting after synchronization.