Here’s an article from The Age on MP3 players and Windows CE.

The New York Post has this article on Palm Computing’s announcement that it will join the Wireless Appliance Protocol (WAP). WAP is a standard designed to let portable devices view and download content from the Internet.

Here’s brief item from Game Informer Magazine which says that Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation may be available for Sega’s Dreamcast.

InstallShield Software announced that the company has entered into a distribution agreement with Tech Data Corp. Tech Data will enable InstallShield to consolidate sales and support for InstallShield Professional, InstallShield Express, DemoShield, InstallShield Java Edition, InstallFromTheWeb and InstallShield for Windows CE.

Network Computing has this article about different options for thin-client computing. The article features Wyse Technologies’ Winterm 5355SE.

Here’s a story from the Associated Press on PayPal, an instant payment service that allows people to exchange money through their Palm organizers.

Thanks to reader Gautam Srikanth for sending in this article from Wired News about Confinity’s PayPal. PayPal will allow Palm organizer users to beam money to each other.

NS BASIC Corporation reports that NS Basic/CE 2.1 is now shipping. It features over three dozen enhancements, changes and fixes. The upgrade is free to licenced users of NS Basic/CE 2.0. Users of NS Basic/CE 1.x can upgrade for just $39.95. NS Basic/CE 2.1 is a BASIC development environment that runs completely on a Windows CE device.

Forbes magazine and Audible announced an agreement that will result in the delivery of audio versions of selected content from Forbes Magazine to listeners via the World Wide Web. Users will be able to listen to Forbes stories at their personal computers, or away from their PCs with any number of AudibleReady mobile devices, such as new PC companions powered by Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system, as well as the forthcoming Rio 500 digital audio player.

AmikaNow! – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) service provider for the wireless Internet – today announced the launch of the company’s first generation of intelligent email content interpretation tools. AmikaFreedom and AmikaWisdom are designed to operate like an “email clerk”, delivering email highlights to a user’s desktop, pager, wireless phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).