Palm Ventures, the strategic venture investment group of Palm, Inc. has made an investment in Kenamea, Inc., a company that is building an innovative Internet application communications platform.

CNET News.com has an article on how charities and relief organizations are looking at the fundraising potential of the wireless Web.

ZDNet reports Transmeta plans to release Mobile Linux to the open-source community soon, a move that follows growing collaboration between Linux developers and manufacturers of handheld computers.

Palm Infocenter has an article on the new Palm-related products being shown at Demo 2001.

Jeff Hawkins, co-founder, chairman, and chief product officer of Handspring, Inc. will unveil and demonstrate the new full-VGA eyemodule2 digital camera at Demo 2001.

At Toy Fair 2001, Maxverse Interactive, Inc. is previewing the first products in a family of new interactive and wireless devices designed for teens and pre-teens. This includes WireFly, featuring mobile instant messaging, paging, interactive gaming, and PDA functionality.

Trend Micro Inc. is warning computer users of a fast spreading virus known as “Anna Kournikova” or VBS_Kalamar.A. This virus is a mass-mailer, using Outlook to email itself as an attachment, and is spreading rapidly in the wild. Protection is available immediately for all Trend Micro customers. Concerned computer users can use Trend Micro’s free online virus scanner, HouseCall to detect this threat.

ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced the release of simpliWrite Chinese.

Brinkman Technologies Inc. and hotpalm.com announced a joint venture to deliver anytime/anywhere access to various financial services via wireless devices. BTI and hotpalm have developed and will market Powerline Wireless with partner, GUS Networks, a global provider of Internet products and services.

Aportis Technologies Corp. announced the release of BrainForest Mobile Edition 2.2 and BrainForest Professional 2.2 for Palm OS devices. BrainForest is a comprehensive action item organizer, idea tracker, project planner, and checklist manager.