Check out this report from ZDNet’s Charles Cooper. In the article, Cooper says that a senior executive at Palm told him that Palm believes it can reduce the cost of its flagship handheld product to $99 from its current $450 within two years.

At the Palm executive summit in New York, Palm CEO Carl Yankowski said that all of Palm’s devices will have wireless capabilities. News.com also reports that Palm itself will become a kind of wireless service provider.

Informal Software announced that it’s shipping enotate software. enotate software lets you sketch ideas, create handwritten notes and electronically annotate Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, digital photos. Informal Software is offering enotate software free of charge to consumers during the week of April 24, 2000. Beginning May 1, 2000, enotate software will be available from the Informal Software Web site for $49.99.

Cutting Edge Software announced it has launched its redesigned Web site. Cutting Edge’s Web site now includes sections on enterprise solutions, reseller opportunities, and a call to other Palm software developers to partner with Cutting Edge in providing handheld productivity solutions.

Pulse Data International out of New Zealand has launched the Braille Note. It is a notebook computer that uses Windows CE to run word processing, personal organizer, and email software for the blind. Information can be keyed in and read using the Braille coding system of embossed dots. It is to be marketed internationally, with it’s initial focus on Europe.

MobileVillage.com has conducted a two-month survey which shows 72% of companies planning mobile technology purchases in the next two years favor the Palm operating system. The survey also showed 59% favored Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system, suggesting many respondents planned on purchasing multiple types.

As workers become more mobile, their equipment options are also increasing as handheld devices take on more PC qualities and notebook computers acquire the wireless capabilities of handhelds. In this PC Week article, the various sources of these innovations are explored.

Mitsubishi Electric has announced that it plans to use the Windows CE operating system in its future car navigation systems. They hope this will reduce the time and cost it takes to develope new navigation systems.

Gary Krakow of MSNBC reviews Hewlett-Packard’s new Jornada 545. He calls it “slim, sleek, and nearly perfect.”

The Register, out of the United Kingdom, has an article on the rise of the in-car PC. It says this is another potentially large market for Windows CE as a study has claimed that revenues from in-car computing will rise from the current $40 million to more than $1.7 billion in 2004. However, the article states that at the moment few car manufacturers seem willing to take the leap into the kind of computer systems that would offer Internet access and email capabilities.