While it wasn’t the rocket we saw in Palm’s IPO in March, Handspring’s stock managed to spring 35 percent in its first day of trading.

We felt the need…the need for speed. And so, we’re please to announce that ZATZ is now feeding our magazines to you via a high-speed, full T1 connection to the Internet. We’re thrilled to be able to offer far greater performance and access than ever before (and it’s really cool watching all those readers scroll by so quickly on the Web server’s status screen). — DG

The New York Times has this article on IBM’s one gigabyte Microdrive. The Microdrive, which is expected to ship in September, can hold up to one thousand 200 page novels or 10 hours of digital audio. Free registration is required to view this article.

We felt the need…the need for speed. And so, we’re please to announce that ZATZ is now feeding our magazines to you via a high-speed, full T1 connection to the Internet. We’re thrilled to be able to offer far greater performance and access than ever before (and it’s really cool watching all those readers scroll by so quickly on the Web server’s status screen). — DG

The New York Times has this article on IBM’s one gigabyte Microdrive. The Microdrive, which is expected to ship in September, can hold up to one thousand 200 page novels or 10 hours of digital audio. Free registration is required to view this article.

Thanks to Michael Compeau for sending us this item on Palm’s Palm IX. The Palm IX is the largest handheld on the market, with 128M of RAM and a full-color display. Check out Fool.com for the rest of the details.

Handspring priced its IPO at $20 per share. ZDNet says that the IPO priced above the price range of $17 and $19.

GeoDiscovery announced a suite of products, applications, and content resources that offer services to travelers and mobile workers through applications based on the Palm OS. The first product implementation from GeoDiscovery will be the Geode, a GPS module to support the Handspring Visor. The Geode is expected to ship end of summer, 2000.

Here’s a press release found on MP3.com. SanDisk Corporation announced that its flash memory MultiMediaCard will be bundled for sale along with Innogear’s MiniJam Springboard module.The MiniJam Springboard Module will be available this summer.

ZDNet reports that IBM said it is set to ship its Microdrive, a small one-gigabyte hard drive for handheld computer devices, such as personal digital assistants and digital cameras.