Vindigo extended its free mobile service to include four new major metropolitan cities: Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Washington D.C. The existing service, already available for New York City, has also been expanded with lifestyle information.

Interactive Week has this story on Undergroundfilm.com, a company that is working to make short films available on Palm and Pocket PC devices.

Golf Digest, DeLorme and IntelliGolf have combined resources to create a software program. Golf Digest’s Places to Play Travel Planner combines information on over 16,000 golf courses with DeLorme digital maps and IntelliGolf scorecard software.

Golf Digest, DeLorme and IntelliGolf have combined resources to create a software program. Golf Digest’s Places to Play Travel Planner combines information on over 16,000 golf courses with DeLorme digital maps and IntelliGolf scorecard software.

LandWare announced that it is offering an enhanced edition of its popular Zagat Survey software, Zagat version 1.1, for Palm, Handspring, IBM and TRG handhelds. Zagat v1.1 for Palm OS now provides access to Zagat’s ratings based on the 30-point scale and reviews for over 8,300 restaurants in 11 cities, including Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC. In addition, Zagat 1.1 now utilizes color on Palm IIIc devices to highlight restaurant and nightspot attributes.

MP3.com launched an application that is accessible via a WAP-enabled (Wireless Application Protocol) mobile phone. MP3.com developed this application to locate and purchase tickets to live entertainment events from mobile phones equipped with a WAP microbrowser. Version 1.0 of the MP3.com Wireless Live Events Calendar is now accessible from WAP-enabled mobile phones.

ZDNet has this article on Palm’s developers. The article says that the developers who won’t program for other platforms, like Microsoft’s Windows CE, keep the Palm platform way ahead of the competition.

Thanks to reader Martin Yancey for sending in this article from The Washington Post about the Pocket PC. According to the article, the Pocket PC has improved, but has a way to go before it catches up with Palm.

GuruNet announced the availability of the GuruNet PQA for the Palm VII and Palm V with OmniSky modem. GuruNet is a free, new one-click information service. Depending on what word or concept you enter, GuruNet provides you with the information for that concept, accessing reference materials as well as real-time data.

MP3.com launched an application that is accessible via a WAP-enabled (Wireless Application Protocol) mobile phone. MP3.com developed this application to locate and purchase tickets to live entertainment events from mobile phones equipped with a WAP microbrowser. Version 1.0 of the MP3.com Wireless Live Events Calendar is now accessible from WAP-enabled mobile phones.