Yahoo has a Reuters report that says Handspring Inc. reported a second-quarter operating loss and revenues that were better than analysts’ expectations. According to the article, the company reported an operating loss of 7 cents per diluted share for the period ended December 30, compared with a loss per share of 12 cents in the year-ago quarter.

ZDNet reports that Bill Maggs, Palm’s chief technology officer, will be leaving the company. According to the article, Maggs said he has not set a resignation date and plans to remain on as a consultant for a time.

Yesterday we ran a piece about 3Com planning layoffs. For those of you who may have forgotten, Palm, Inc. is no longer part of 3Com, though 3Com does own a measurable percentage of Palm. In other words, please don’t confuse layoffs at 3Com with any problems at Palm. All indications are that Palm is quite successful at this time.

CNET News.com reports that at the 2001 North American International Auto Show, the displays for Cadillac and GM featured Palm handheld computers that beamed informational leaflets into consumers’ compatible devices.

Firepad, Inc. announced today that its FireViewer application has been certified as a Palm Powered Compatible Solution. Formerly known as the Platinum Program, the Palm Powered Compatible Solution testing process assures that Palm OS platform products meet rigorous compatibility, quality, and usability standards set by Palm, Inc.

FoxPop has a review of To Do Plus from Hands High Software.

CNET News.com reports 3Com, hurt by a slowdown in spending from telecommunications companies, plans to lay off workers as part of an effort to save at least $200 million a year.

Palm has released Palm Desktop software v4.0 for Windows. It offers a new user interface, new views, time-saving features, improved security, and new ways to share, send, and receive appointments and address book information.

Unstrung.com has an article that says wireless Internet search engines still need work as “translating the Web’s mark-up language HTML into the wireless Web’s language WML (Wireless Mark-up Language)” causes content to be lost in the process.

CNET News.com has an article on Toshiba America Electronic Components’ announcement of its TC35273XB chip for PDAs. According to the article, the chip has 12MB of integrated memory and an encoder and decoder for MPEG-4.