
CNET News.com reports IBM plans to offer users of Lotus Notes email software the ability to purchase its “Sametime Everyplace” service allowing them to receive instant messages on mobile phones, handheld computers, and other wireless devices by mid-July.

Palm Boulevard has an article on a new case introduced by Fellowes that includes a built in keyboard.

CNET News.com reports Palm will sell the land in San Jose, CA, it had intended for a new corporate headquarters. According to the article, the company will use the proceeds from the sale as working capital for operations.

ZDNet News has an article saying a Gartner analysts report to be released will reveal that while Palm will continue to hold the top position for market share and shipped more units in the second quarter, Compaq’s iPaq will lead in revenue due to a higher average selling price.

MobiMate and Marilis announced a joint marketing partnership between the companies. The collaboration between the companies is designed to bring new and existing Palm OS games to a wider audience.

LandWare, Inc. has been awarded Smallbiztechnology.com’s BEST of PC EXPO 2001 award for Pocket Quicken 2.0. LandWare will be demonstrating Pocket Quicken 2.0 in Booth #3722 at PC Expo as part of the Palm Pavilion.

MatchBookProducts has reduced its prices for the MD-001 (long) and MD-100 (flush) compactflash adapters for Visor handhelds. Long adapters now sell for $15, and flush adapters for $20. FAFileMover, FAUtil, and CSpotRun, with the compactflash plugin, are now included free of charge with each adapter.

CNET News.com reports Michael Jordan and Palm plan to announce on Monday a Jordan-edition Palm handheld. This follows the recently released Claudia Schiffer edition Palm Vx.

In a move to bring baseball fans even closer to the action, the San Francisco Giants and Palm, Inc. unveiled three “beaming stations” at Pacific Bell Park. Handheld users can now keep score and track the game more closely when they visit a beaming station and “beam” a scoring application and the latest Giants and visiting team statistics and roster to their Palm Powered handheld computers.

XcelleNet, Inc. and Peregrine Systems, Inc. announced a partnership to offer XcelleNet