Cool goodies

Check out these cool downloads for your Palm and Windows CE devices. ZDNet has a review of the latest and greatest handheld goodies.

Posted on: July 1, 1999 9:00 am

Bridge information

Bridge Information Systems announced the launch of BridgeFlight. BridgeFlight is an interactive wireless system that delivers financial data and news through a handheld personal computer. BridgeFlight software easily installs on any of Palm Computing products, and uses a wireless or cable modem to connect to the Internet and access BRIDGE servers, transmitting up-to-the-second data snapshots back to the handheld device.

Posted on: July 1, 1999 9:00 am

Househunting on Palm VII

Internet Week has this article on how Prudential Real Estate is using the Palm VII. Prudential’s technical staff wrote a PQA that lets real estate agents and customers search Prudential’s property listing database, as well as search for the closest Prudential real estate office and pull up listings of open houses on their Palm VII devices.

Posted on: July 1, 1999 9:00 am

Buddies on handhelds

Smart Reseller News has this article on InfoSpace.com, which plans to bring a version of buddy list services that will let users send and receive instant messages via digital cellular telephones and handheld computers.

Posted on: July 1, 1999 9:00 am

Java on Palm

In this article from Internet Week, JP Morgenthal says that 3Com’s deal with Sun Microsystems to bring Java to the Palm computer will force Microsoft to focus its developers to Windows CE as well as Windows 2000.

Posted on: July 1, 1999 9:00 am

What’s next?

Here’s a speculative article from Forbes on what Palm Computing founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky could be working on.

Posted on: June 30, 1999 9:00 am

Buddies on handhelds

Smart Reseller News has this article on InfoSpace.com, which plans to bring a version of “buddy list” services that will let users send and receive instant messages via digital cellular telephones and handheld computers.

Posted on: June 30, 1999 9:00 am

Odyssey Navigation

InfoGation announced the Odyssey Navigation Engine, a set of software modules that will be marketed to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of automotive electronics who are creating in-vehicle computing systems. Odyssey Navigation Engine provides features such as positioning the vehicle using GPS satellite and dead-reckoning sensors, displaying 2D and 3-D map views, calculating the route, and issuing voice guidance to the driver. This is pretty cool Auto PC stuff.

Posted on: June 30, 1999 9:00 am

Where do you want to go?

Here’s an article from Computer Reseller News about where Microsoft wants to take the Windows CE operating system. The article also talks about Microsoft’s Windows CE wireless connectivity kit.

Posted on: June 30, 1999 9:00 am

Focus on CE

In this article from Internet Week, JP Morgenthal says that 3Com’s deal with Sun Microsystems to bring Java to the Palm computer will force Microsoft to focus its developers to Windows CE as well as Windows 2000.

Posted on: June 30, 1999 9:00 am