Pacific Microinstruments, Inc. announced the immediate opening of its new Northwest Design Center in Portland, Oregon. The Northwest Design Center will focus on the design of Palm OS instruments.

Martindale-Hubbell has introduced a new service that enables users of wirelessly enabled Palm VII or Palm VIIx handheld computers to get wireless access to the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. The new capability utilizes a Palm Query Application (PQA) and is available free of charge at xNow.

Chapura released the latest version of PocketMirror, PocketMirror 3.0 Professional, designed to harmonize Outlook

CNET News.com also has an article on the Visor Prism.

ZDNet has an article on the two new Visor models as well as a new attachment called GameFace that turns the Visor into a gaming device.

Shawn Barnett at Pen Computing has reviews of Handspring’s two new Visor models, the Visor Platinum and Visor Prism.

Palm, Inc. announced two holiday promotions. Palm customers who buy the Palm IIIc handheld computer at the reduced street price of $329 (down from $399) will receive a ColorPak gift, which includes three color styli, a Palm IIIc luggage tag, and a Holiday Promotion CD. The special CD is a compilation of seven color applications that take advantage of the Palm IIIc handheld’s color features, including solutions for entertainment, drawing, and eBook reading. In addition, Palm customers who also purchase Kodak’s PalmPix snap-on camera will receive a $30 Kodak rebate in addition to the limited edition ColorPak.

Please be aware that tomorrow, Tuesday, October 17, we have scheduled server maintenance. All ZATZ sites will be down for just a few hours on that day.

Jesse Berst at ZDNet has an article describing what makes the iPAQ Pocket PC a truly next-generation product and why it raises the bar for handhelds and wireless Web surfing.

YadaYada Inc. announced a strategic alliance with AT&T Wireless Services to offer wireless data coverage to YadaYada’s user base of mobile computing professionals and consumers.