GadgetSquad has a review of FlashPlug for Palm. The FlashPlug is 8MB of flash memory that plugs into the serial port of a Palm device.

Vingage Corporation announced it has extended its support for streaming video formats within mobile devices to the Palm OS through a licensing agreement with Firepad, Inc.. Vingage presently supports all standard streaming video formats for viewing video over the Internet and is moving to incorporate additional format capacities for mobile devices.

PixAround has announced its PixScreen PDA Lite, which lets you view 360 degree PixAround Scenes on portable devices such as Palm handhelds. The software is designed to allow you to stitch together a series of photographs of a place into a 360 degree interactive image and publish it to your PDA.

A fellow by the name of Clay Shirky has written an excellent explanation of P2P (peer-to-peer) computing like that used in Napster. If you’d like to get a good handle on what P2P actually is (and how to tell it when you’re staring it right in the face), read this article published in DaveNet.

According to an article on ZDNet, makers of handheld PDA devices are taking it easy at Comdex 2000, making few significant announcements. The article summarizes the announcements that have been made.

Pocket Express announced that its new database program, Pocket Express dbNow, will ship in early November. According to the press release, the software allows users the ability to share data between their own handheld, laptop, and desktop PC, as well as among co-workers, friends, and family members. It offers multi-user synchronization right out of the box, with no programming required.

PCWorld.com has an article on the future of wireless handheld devices. The article reports that according to a panel on “Digital Innovations” held at Comdex Tuesday featuring speakers from Nokia, Research in Motion, Palm, OmniSky, and Sony, the concensus is the future doesn’t “appear to be headed toward one unit that can mimic all the functions of the PC.”

Planet IT has another article on the choice buyers have between Palm OS or Pocket PC devices. According to the article, “One factor will determine the victorious OS: you.”

Planet IT has an article exploring the choice of PDA models available to consumers.

BBC news has an article reporting that the hottest topic this year at Comdex is the mobile Internet.