Interactive Week has an article on the incoming head of Palm, Alan Kessler as we continue our coverage of this minor musical chairs story.

We gave you Chemdex’ view on Abrams. Now we give you the report from NEWS.COM’s perspective.

The editors at PCWorld clock-in with their review of the Palm VII. Here’s one interesting, good news comment they made: “In tests conducted in the Boston area, we obtained consistently trouble-free connections to the Palm.Net service indoors, outdoors, and in the car. “

Robert Foster decided to open up his Palm VII and share the inner guts with the world. The Gadgeteer has some very interesting pictures. They’re not quite pin-up quality, but if you get your jollies from computer viscera, this is your moment in the sun.

It’s still hot out, but we’ve managed to keep everything up and running…although the machine room got to well above 90 for a period yesterday. In commemoration, David managed to go for a swim before going to work. Reports are it’s supposed to be cooler today, but again, if you can’t get in, think brown-out city and try again in a little while. Our power backup systems are pretty robust, so if we’re down, so’s a good portion of the Eastern Seaboard…but it could happen.

FamilyPC has a fun story on calendars. They look at items from the traditional wall calendar through shared Web calendars and those running on handheld devices.

PCWorld has a review on the HP Jornada 680 (this is the handheld format device, rather than the palm-sized PC or the mini-notebook form-factor). They call it “the best color Windows CE palmtop we’ve seen”. How much can you trust their review? Well, for starters, the device technically isn’t a palmtop. Even so, it’s entertaining reading.

Interactive Week reports that 3Com’s planning to partner with a portal site to deliver handheld content. Apparently, this is in addition to the Palm.Net service recently announced with the Palm VII device. In part, the article says, Palm’s planning this in response to Microsoft’s MSN Mobile initiative and Yahoo’s plans to “mobilize” aspects of their content.

HP has announced that it’s officially discontinuing it’s DOS-based handheld devices, the HP 200LX and the HP 1000CX. There are some interesting tools and promotions to get you moved over to the Jornada line including a conversion utility, and special bundle deals (free REX device or free battery). So you can dump the old, and maybe get two of the new.

HP has dropped the price on the Jornada 420 from $519 to $449. Expect the normal street price adjustments. In addition, HP has announced a special “summer bundle valued at $160” available when purchasing the device. The bundle includes a 16MB CompactFlash memory card loaded with HP speech-recognition software, Sierra Imaging’s Image Expert and the HP 64K color driver, which let’s the device move from displaying 256 to 65,536 colors.