Brighthand Editor-in-Chief Steve Bush has a series of reports on events and products from CES 2001 in Las Vegas.

ZDNet has an article that says one of the first bills to be introduced in Congress would make it a criminal act to send a solicitation to a wireless device without the user’s express permission.

Wired.com reports that the future of the ebook is not looking too good at the moment.

You can find PortaPam at the Eruptor Web site. You have to care and feed the little digital version of Pam that lives on your Palm device by managing her career and keeping her stocked up on pizzas.

Wired.com has an article covering a variety of news in the handheld world, including Eruptor Entertainment’s PortaPam, an electronic pet version of Pam Anderson, and a suggestion that Apple and Palm might be up to something.

Palm Infocenter reports initial interest Claudia Schiffer Edition Palm Vx has been quite strong.

Palm Boulevard has an article on the announcement made by Sierra Wireless that the company has formed a partnership with GoAmerica Inc. in an exclusive agreement to to deliver the Sierra Wireless AirBoard for the Sony CLIE. According to the article, the Sierra Wireless AirBoard is a wireless adapter developed to work on Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) networks and the Ricochet 128 kbps network.

ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced Quanta, a manufacturer of notebooks and PC’s, has opted to use ART’s smARTspeak and smARTspeakCS as it enters the cellular marketplace.

Metrowerks announced a new set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create applications for handheld devices. The company also announced plans to release a version of its CodeWarrior tool suite targeting enterprise application development on the Palm OS platform, as well as a new Palm OS programming course on its CodeWarriorU.com Web site.

InfoSync has an article on Cirque’s Pocket Keyboard for Palm OS devices. According to the article, the keyboard is 3.5 by 2.625 inches and is based on Cirque’s GlidePoint technology.