Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. announced the availability of three additional medical reference Springboard modules for Handspring Visors. The titles join the 2001 Physicians’ Desk Reference, published by Thomson Healthcare, already available as a Springboard module.

Subscribe to the AvantGo mobile Internet service can access free buying advice from selected Consumer Reports product review categories. “Consumer Reports to Go” is the result of an agreement between Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, and AvantGo, Inc.

Pumatech, Inc. announced that its Intellisync Anywhere version 2.0 software for Lotus Domino R5 will begin shipping in April 2001. The software is designed to provide corporations with remote and LAN-based synchronization between Palm OS handhelds and the Lotus Domino R5 groupware server application.

The first in a monthly series of articles titled “Monday Morning CEO” has been published at Red Mercury, a Palm developer, which gives the commentary on running a business a Palm bias.

DataViz, Inc. announced at the Comdex Chicago Conference the release of an Add-on Kit for Documents To Go Professional Edition. The kit will consist of PDF To Go, which allows users to view text and tables in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, and DataViz Mail, an application that enables users to receive email and attachments on any handheld running the Palm OS 3.0 or higher.

NTRU announced that William Whyte has joined the company as Director of Cryptographic Research and Development. Whyte will join the NTRU research department headed by Jeffrey Hoffstein and Joseph Silverman and will be responsible for extending NTRU into new areas of secure, wireless communications, spearheading NTRU’s public key cryptography system (PKCS) design and analysis, and participating in industry workgroups developing standards for efficient, embedded security.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has a Palm OS application designed to treat overweight and obesity according to the Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity in Adults.

If you want a second opinion, SystemLogic.net has also done a review of the Portable Innovations MemPlug Module for the Handspring Visor.

SF Palm User Group has a review of Portable Innovation’s MemPlug, Smartmedia SpringBoard module for the HandSpring Visor.

The Street is running a pretty downbeat commentary on Palm this week. They make some good points, although we think the doom and gloom message is considerably over the top.