What’s old is now new again. Remember terminals? Anyone think that the iMac looks a lot like a see-through ADM-3A? Well, now Windows is getting terminals and PC World talks about one of the first Windows CE-based models to be built by Compaq.

UPS (Big Brown) is holding a contest where the prize is a wireless Palm VII device. They’re giving away 90 of these things to folks who use UPS.com to track packages. Use UPS On Call Air Pickup or UPS Drop-off Locator before September 27, 1999 and you’ll be eligible to win a Palm VII Organizer, which you can use to track packages and find UPS Drop-off locations, wow your friends, and pick up girls (or guys) when you show them your antenna.

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.”

One must always reference the Herring. It’s just the thing to do. In this case, the Herring folks have their take on Abrams leaving Palm for the pungent pastures of Chemdex. As Herring often does, they’ve got some good coverage on the financial angle. In this case, they’ve got some good details on Chemdex as an opportunity.

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.

UPS (Big Brown) is holding a contest where the prize is a wireless Palm VII device. They’re giving away 90 of these things to folks who use UPS.com to track packages. Use UPS On Call Air Pickup or UPS Drop-off Locator before September 27, 1999 and you’ll be eligible to win a Palm VII Organizer, which you can use to track packages and find UPS Drop-off locations, wow your friends, and pick up girls (or guys) when you show them your antenna.

NEWS.COM reports that HP has discontinued their DOS handheld machines (we had this news days ago, of course). But additionally, this article reports that Toshiba has canned their Libretto mini-laptops. While Toshiba says that technology has passed them by, we (who can’t resist a snipe in their general PR direction) believe it’s because they backed out of their promise to send us review units just before an issue was due and the bad ju-ju just took them down.

It’s not every day we figure out how to link to a nearly full-size image of a supermodel (in this case, the rather fetching but not really our type Laetitia Casta–ok, we’d settle!) in our technology news headlines and still be on-topic. But thanks to a devious plan by YourDay.com, we did. The YourDay.com system is basically a calendar that works with PCs down to Palm devices. The differentiator is the waker-up is the lovely Laetitia. Here’s how they describe it: “Research results also determined YourDay.com’s use of a supermodel. In a survey conducted in April by SenseNet, Inc. and YourDay.com, over 90% of men polled found the idea of being woken up by a supermodel appealing.” Yeah, well, somehow we think the guys weren’t thinking of a computer. And, we feel politically correctly motivated to ask, what about the women?

MSNBC has a review of the Clik! drive, which stores 40MB in a teeny-tiny space. Just enough though, so you can store that huge image of Laetitia and take it everywhere with you.