The Electronic Engineering Times reports that Proxim has joined with MobileStar Network to link its RangeLAN2 wireless LAN to a national network of Internet access points. Proxim and MobileStar use wireless LAN PC cards already developed for laptops and Windows CE portables, which links them to public-network access points.

Thanks to our readers who sent in this article from Time Magazine. The article give a run down of all of the major players in the handheld market. The writer also says that if he were in the market for a handheld computer, he’d wait for Handspring’s product to hit the market.

Thanks to our readers who sent in this article from Time Magazine. The article give a run down of all of the major players in the handheld market. The writer also says that if he were in the market for a handheld computer, he’d wait for Handspring’s product to hit the market.

DataViz released a new version (2.002) of Documents To Go for Macintosh and Windows. This free upgrade adds new features, such as document bookmarking. The Macintosh version adds support for AppleWorks 5 word processing and spreadsheet files and support for contextual menus. Documents To Go also allows Palm computer users to take their files to go on the Palm Organizer.

Thanks to reader Gautam Srikanth for pointing us to Tom Brokaw’s report on former Palm Computing president Donna Dubinsky. The article takes a look at where she’s been, and where she’s going with Handspring.

Sometimes I get a chance to say “wow”, when I look at my life. Today was one such day. Today, Ted Nelson, my former boss back at Creative Computing Magazine (we’re talking 1979 here), released Xanadu to the world as open source. The whole Xanadu project changed my life. I didn’t know computers could be so cool until the Xanadu guys, back in 1979, showed me the cool. They never really went anywhere with it, but they inspired everyone with it, and its ideas are at the heart of much of our world today. Interestingly, another of my old bosses, Dave Winer, attended the session where Ted opened Xanadu. He’s another special guy who’s subtly influenced much of the word of computing. So today, you get to read one of my old bosses (Dave) talking about another (Ted). If you wonder sometimes where some of the heart and soul of ZATZ comes from, it’s because I had good teachers.

News.com reports that the Microsoft-Qualcomm venture to bring wireless services to people will be delayed until the first quarter of next year. The wireless service, called Revolv, enables people to access information from Microsoft Exchange-based servers through wireless devices.

Check out this story from Wired News on a cell phone that can play MP3 files. Samsung Electronics unveiled the cell phone that can hold 16 MB, or about 15 minutes worth of music.

Philips Semiconductors is working to merge its acquisition VLSI Technology’s Velocity prototyping system with its own system for telecom-terminal chip and software development. The Electronic Engineering Times explains what this all means.

InfoWorld has this article which says that Lotus plans to extend its Mobile Services for Domino (MSD) 2.0 to handhelds running Epoc 32, Windows CE and the Palm operating system. MSD 2.0 is scheduled to be released early next year.