Pacific Microinstruments, Inc. announced the release of the Extra*Digit Application Programmer Interface, version 1.0 (API1.0) for the Extra*Digit MNP-12 Springboard module. The API is designed to allow end-users, companies, and research institutions to develop proprietary code for handheld instruments on the Handspring Visor.

SiPix Inc. announced the new Pocket Printer A6. The printer will ship to retail channels at the end of the month at a suggested retail price of $149.

miniMusic announced it’s making available a utility to export music written with their NotePad software onto Windows desktop computers. NotePad is portable music notation software for Palm handheld computers. With the new NotePad Conduit, whenever the Palm handheld is synchronized with the desktop computer any songs written on the Palm device are automatically updated on the desktop machine.

Coola Inc. launched Coola support for Apple’s Macintosh.

Ron Schaefer announce the release of Cuppa Joe 1.1, a Palm-OS application aimed at helping users enjoy coffee, tea, and specialty drinks by giving them a complete lexicon of cafe drinks. The Coffee Drinks guide is designed to help cafe patrons know the difference between a Caffe Latte Breve and a Cafe au Lait Tall and Skinny, how Ethiopian coffee differs from Guatemalan coffee, etc.

Wireless NewsFactor has an article on adAlive, Inc.’s announcement that it will begin making the Vindigo content platform available to handheld customers in major airports by attaching an adAlive device to billboard advertisements in airport walkways.

Yahoo has a news item in which Palm Chief Executive Carl Yankowski says he expects revenues from licensing the Palm operating system and from offering services like Internet access and content to Palm users to eventually make up one-quarter of the company’s revenues.

Swivel Systems is accepting pre-orders for the SG20 General MIDI tone module on the Swivel Systems Web site. The SG20 tone module clips on to a Palm handheld computer creating a compact mobile music studio that you can fit in your pocket.

Claire Pieterek sent in this link to Fujisan.com, a Japanese online superstore offering a color Sony CLIE.

Noted wine and food expert Amy Reiley has teamed up with neohand, inc. to create Amy Reiley