Ilium Software announced the release of GameBag One for palm-sized PCs running Windows CE. The game package includes eight games including King

Infinite Ventures announced the release of the graphic adventure game, Shadowgate Classic for Windows CE devices. The game fully utilizes the color and gray scale graphic capabilities of Windows CE devices to illustrate the beasts and puzzles.

Reader Greg McKinney is proud of his new Web page. We love when our readers have fun and do cool stuff, so we’re including a link to his page and his comments: Hey, I am a real novice at this html thing….and even at this Palm thing….but I put it on my “hobby” page for kicks…..just the url, that is….but I was completely amazed that it worked the very first time. Thanks alot!

I know this has nothing to do with news, but I just have to send a special thank you to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team for taking the world on a great ride the past three weeks. It was a great thing to see. – The girl in Section 26, Row 16, Seat 116

TealPoint Software announced the release of TealLaunch, a popup and button-mapping launcher utility. TealLaunch is a system extension that gives you button-mapping abilities and easy access to system functions, editing commands, and applications.

Thanks to reader Michael Murray for sending in this article from Apple Insider about the rumors of a pending deal between Palm Computing and Apple.

Dan Gillmor talks about Symbion in the Merc: “Symbian is actually something of a counter-revolution. Its partners, including most of the world’s top cellular-phone companies, launched the venture a year ago. Their goal, in part, was to prevent Microsoft Corp. from someday dominating their industry as it now rules the personal-computer business.”

Network Computing has an interesting backgrounder on Bluetooth, a wireless networking standard that some folks have been all a-buzz about. Great quote: I see early morning bedside phone calls becoming a real necessity. “Hello, coffee maker? Nonfat double latte please, and easy on the foam this time.”

Wired News reports that GeoCities (now under the somewhat uncertain control of Yahoo’s lawyers) has backed down from it’s oppressive terms of service requirements. While this is not directly an on-topic story for us, many of the Web sites that cover our favorite topics are based on GeoCities and this news means there’s less of a chance that they’ll jump ship. Fascinating case. Let’s hope we all learn something from it.

InfoWorld reports Psion, with support from IBM, will produce a new sub-notebook device (NetBook) that will allow users of IBM applications to connect with corporate servers to exchange information while working remotely. The device will support users of IBM’s MQSeries (a messaging application). This will allow mobile applications to exchange data securely with the back-office systems, according to the companies.