More from PalmSource ’99. Wired News has this story on what’s wrong with PalmSource. The article says that the grassroots feel of the conference is gone and is replaced by folks plugging products and a constant use of industry buzz words.

Thanks to reader Chris Daida for this item on Hanspring’s customer service. Apparently, a lot of folks are having problems with lost orders and products on backorder. Read their stories at PC Magazine.

AvantGo announced that it has extended the Web to tens of millions of wireless devices with its Mobile Unity initiative. Mobile Unity is AvantGo’s initiative to deliver Web-based information and applications to all classes of wireless devices, including WAP-enabled phones and Palm Computing and Windows CE platform handheld computers. The company also announced relationships with OpenSky, Novatel Wireless, AT&T Wireless and the WAP Forum as part of the AvantGo Mobile Unity initiative.

The San Jose Mercury News has more on the deal between Palm Computing and Symbian. The article says that the announcement is a setback for Windows CE, and it’s now unlikely that Windows CE will be widely used in mobile phones anytime soon.

PC World takes a look at the newly released Vadem Clio C-1050. The new device runs on Windows CE, comes with a 56-kilobits-per-second hardware-modem, and 32MB of RAM.

Information Week has this article on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), a standard which allows microbrowsers built into handheld devices access Web sites by converting HTML into WML, the Wireless Markup Language.

Linux and Windows CE? Computer Reseller News has this brief item which says that at Internet World ’99, Linus Torvalds told a crowd of Linux faithful that the Windows CE crowd is going to be able to use Linux in the future.

Here’s an article from Computer Reseller News on how Palm Computing can hold on to its market share. The article says that Palm could have a tough time since Microsoft will focus on things such as gaming and music for handheld devices.

The EE Times has this article on Venus, a Windows CE-based information appliance that includes application software and a new Web site. Venus was recently rolled out in China by Microsoft.

AOL has agreed to invest a whopping $800 in computer maker Gateway. AOL will sell Gateway computers online and both companies agreed to develop products together in hardware and content, including the non-PC market, which AOL has targeted with its AOL Anywhere service.