This article from the Sydney Morning Herald examines security problems in corporate systems, and how they can be prevented.

Windows Magazine reviews the latest Handheld PC Professional offerings from NEC and Hewlett-Packard. NEC’s device is the MobilePro 770, and HP’s is the Jornada 680.

You may have heard about Apple’s new “consumer portable”, the iBook. What you might not realize is that Apple is bundling the Palm Desktop software with each copy of the iBook. “But,” you might say, “you need a Palm device to use the Palm Desktop.” Well, that’s not really true. The Palm Desktop is now based on the old Claris Organizer (recall that Claris was once an Apple company, now its resources are just distributed within Apple itself). It is interesting that Apple lists the product with the name Palm Desktop (there’s some deal-magic happening here). And it might be an interesting leader into more Palm sales for the 3Com folks. This may have been the source of the rumor of a Palm-related announcement at Macworld. Interestingly, Palm hasn’t said much about this nor have we received a press release from them. — DG

Here’s what Apple says about the Palm desktop in their marketing: “…and the Palm Desktop not only lets you connect your iBook to a Palm OS-based organizer, it actually turns your iBook into a pretty darned good organizer itself.” Note the use of the phrase “Palm OS-based organizer”. Based. Hmm. –DG

Are you a golf addict? ZDNet takes a look at golf programs, including the new Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf game for Palm computers.

The Stanford PalmPilot User Group’s next meeting will be at 7 pm on August 3rd. The Guest of Honor will Dave Menconi, head of the Palm Clipping Project for the Palm VII, and author of the PQA development chapter of David Pogue’s book PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide.

Here’s an article from Windows Magazine about how the Palm VII could cost a lot more than $599.

Earlier this week Compaq Computer Corp. named Michael D. Capellas president and CEO. According to ZDNN, Capellas plans to complete the management team, simplify distribution, and speed up technology innovation.

MSNBC has this article about advertisements that won’t leave you alone.

Actual Software announced that version 2.0 of the MultiMail Conduit for MacOS will include support for email synchronization with an IMAP4 server. IMAP4 is an email protocol supported by most corporate email servers, including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Novell GroupWise.