Palm, Inc. and Sanyo Fashion House, a subsidiary of Sanyo Shokai Tokyo, have collaborated to create a new handheld-ready line of spring raincoats with a “Designed for Palm Handhelds” pocket. These raincoats, complete with a Palm logo button securing the pocket, are made for both men and women. You can now use the specially designed interior pocket of Sanyo’s coats to securely store and easily access your Palm handheld.

Electric Fuel Corporation announced that its latest INSTANT POWER Chargers for PDAs will be shipped early in the second quarter of 2001. The new product lineup includes a charger for Palm V handheld computers that delivers up to eight full charges.

Publisher Eve Paludan of EbooksEbooks.com announced the launch of a nonfiction ebook based on the sold out paperback, “How I Sold a Million Copies of My Software, and how you can, too!” by Herb Kraft.

The Register has an article on Sharp’s upcoming Linux version of the Zaurus PDA.

Palm Boulevard is also asking readers to share with them some of your favorite Palm OS games.

Palm Boulevard has a review of Dave Designs machined aluminum replacement housings for your your Palm IIIc.

Chess Genius has been updated to version 1.3. It adds game analysis, tutoring, and increased strength.

We recently recieved a press release that tells us “Foot-and-Mouth believed to be first virus unable to spread through Microsoft Outlook.” According to the release, “Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec’s AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft’s Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.” Now, obviously, this is a parody. And equally obviously, Foot-and-Mouth Disease is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you’re trying to put your best foot forward. Yet, at the risk of biting off more than we can chew, we had to share this funny bit of humor with you.

CNET News.com reports analysts and the companies themselves expect Palm’s offer to buy Extended Systems will still go through despite the fall in Palm shares.

iambic has released Action Names Datebook v. 4.56. Several issues have been addressed with the new release and find support has been added for all three databases (date book, to dos, and addresses).