Palm, Inc. announced Jonathan Leonhard of Arachnid Web Design as its 100,000th registered developer. According to the press release, Leonhard is integrating Palm handheld computers into a corporate, fleet application.

CEcity has an article on the Handheld PC 2000, Microsoft

BrightHand has a review of Sony’s new handheld device, calling it “nothing more than a typical Palm clone with a Memory Stick slot that currently exhibits less functionality than your standard floppy disk drive.” However, the review does speak highly of its small size.

Epinions has an overview of all the Palm devices on the market.

eWEEK reports IBM, Lotus, and Handspring displayed wireless prototypes at DemoMobile. According to the article, Lotus demonstrated a prototype of Notes designed to fit on a Palm device.

Tapme! Network announced the launch of new services to serve all Palm device users.

On Friday, we ran a tip entitled “How to get a supermodel to send you email,” discussing the Claudia Schiffer-branded Palm device. At the end of the message, we asked readers to suggest special edition Palm devices they’d like to see. We’re proud to announce that some of our readers have come through with, if not the most tasteful, definitely among the funniest ideas for new celebrity-branded Palm devices. Check out the PowerBoard postings, if you dare.

Yahoo has a press release announcing Extended Systems and Microsoft have formed an alliance to provide Pocket PC-based enterprise solutions in France.

CNET News.com reports a start-up called Ecrio demonstrated instant messaging software that uses handwriting recognition and will work on handheld computers from Palm, Handspring, and Microsoft, as well as WAP-enabled cell phones.

Palm Boulevard has an article in support of the Claudia Schiffer Edition Palm V, calling it a brilliant move. The article makes the case that further partnerships between Palm and celebrities could take Palm devices “from geek playthings to ubiquitous consumer devices.”