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.

The Wall Street Journal has an article by Walter S. Mossberg who has been testing the new Palm and Visor handheld models. According to the article, he liked them very much, though he thought the color on the Palm m505 was a bit dull as, “Palm engineers deliberately dialed back the brightness to achieve great battery life.”

Agenda Computing will officially launch its pure Linux PDA, the Agenda VR3, at Spring Comdex in Chicago to the U.S. consumer market on April 3, 2001.

Brighthand has a review of DayNotez, from Natara Software, which puts the old Franklin Planner Daily Record of Events into your Palm OS handheld.

The USA Today has an article on Kyocera’s QCP 6035 Smartphone.

The Register has an article on how “Palm’s financial problems, outlined at week’s quarterly results announcement, sent panic among investors.”

Brighthand has a review of two hack-free utilities for Palm OS devices, CoLauncher and HanDButton, designed to help you launch your programs quickly and easily.

CNET News.com reports Symantec has released its AntiVirus 2001 for Palm OS, a new version of its software for handheld devices.

Synchrologic has a new whitepaper entitled “CIO Outlook 2001: Architecting Mobility” featuring the Top Ten Critical Steps your organization needs to take to support mobile enterprise computing.

Pendragon Software announced the launch of its Pendragon Internet Forms software, a Web-based development platform for building database applications for Palm OS handheld devices.