Palm’s fourth-quarter revenues rose 101% year-over-year and 29% sequentially.

At the NECC Conference, Palm strengthened its commitment to the education market by demonstrating initiatives to increase the value Palm handhelds offer both students and educators.

Palm will offer the smallest, lightest expansion slot for handheld computers by including Secure Digital (SD) Card expansion technology in addition to current expansion options for the platform: MemoryStick, SpringBoard, compact flash and serial connector. The slot will be available in future Palm branded products in early 2001.

The Mobile Internet Kit was announced at PC Expo. The software product allows current Palm device users to connect wirelessly to the Internet using a mobile phone or a Palm-compatible modem. It should be available later this year worldwide.

Palm recently reminded us of all the work they’ve been doing, so we thought we’d recap their announcements for you.

There’s another article on Sony’s new handheld at ZDNet. It gives the Japan launch date as September 9, with a U.S. launch scheduled for later this year.

InfoWorld has a report from Tokyo where Sony unveiled working models of its handheld computer using the Palm operating system. Sony is calling the device a “personal entertainment organizer.” It will begin shipping in September in Japan. There will be two versions, one in color and one with a monochrome screen.

Synchrologic, Inc. announced upgrades to its iMobile Suite, used for managing Palm OS-based handhelds and smartphones, Pocket PCs, and laptops. iMobile File Distribution 3.0 provides automatic delivery of content and files to mobile and wireless devices, and can retrieve files from mobile devices for redistribution within the mobile network, or for backup to enterprise servers.

Handheldmed, Inc. announced the launch of the redesigned handheldmed.com Web site. The site is designed to deliver medical point-of-care applications and content for Palm, Windows CE, EPOC, and Psion wireless devices. As part of the launch they are offering a promotion that provides physicians and other healthcare professionals with Patient Tracker and an electronic version of the Merck Manual at no cost to registered users.

It has been previously reported that Palm IIIc devices were developing small, hairline cracks near the bottom of the back of the device. PalmStation has an interesting posting from a Palm IIIc user who received a replacement from Palm. The user dismantled the new device to figure out what Palm did to keep the problem from happening again.