Thanks to reader Gautam Srikanth for sending in this item from Forbes Magazine on Handspring, Inc. Despite all of the secrecy surrounding the company, Forbes predicts what the company is going to do with its new line of products.

We continue our in-depth coverage of the Y2K issue with a great little animation. If you’re online, you’re going to enjoy this. If you’re reading from a mobile edition, be sure to click the link when you get back to your desktop machine.

CNN Interactive has this article on how handheld computers are helping doctors in emergency situations. Doctors can now have medical information at their fingertips, which enables them to act faster and make more informed decisions.

AvantGo announced that it is shipping AvantGo Enterprise 3, a software solution for extending Web-based and client/server applications to handheld devices. AvantGo also announced that it has signed a strategic alliance with Attachmate Corporation to bring enterprise data to handheld devices.

devSoft released Version 2.0 of its Internet Commerce Kit (ICK), a developer’s toolkit for secure access and manipulation of Internet data. The toolkit includes native Internet and intranet development components for popular development environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder, Borland Delphi, and others. The new release introduces a new component: vGrid (‘virtual’ Grid), used to dynamically exchange relational (tabular) data over the World Wide Web.

Socket Communications announced a co-marketing agreement with Hitachi America that focuses on offering Hitachi’s recently announced ePlate, a tablet-style handheld PC based on the Windows CE operating system from Microsoft, with Socket’s Battery Friendly plug-in cards.

News.com reports that Microsoft is working with Intel to create a new gaming console which would compete with Sega, Sony, and Nintendo. The article says that this would be a chance to make Windows CE popular.

We continue our in-depth coverage of the Y2K issue with a great little animation. If you’re online, you’re going to enjoy this. If you’re reading from a mobile edition, be sure to click the link when you get back to your desktop machine.

CNN Interactive has this article on how handheld computers are helping doctors in emergency situations. Doctors can now have medical information at their fingertips, which enables them to act faster and make more informed decisions.

AvantGo announced that it is shipping AvantGo Enterprise 3, a software solution for extending Web-based and client/server applications to handheld devices. AvantGo also announced that it has signed a strategic alliance with Attachmate Corporation to bring enterprise data to handheld devices.