The Stanford PalmPilot User Group will meet at 7 pm on Tuesday May 4th. The Guest of Honor will be Steve Sabram, President of Datastick Systems. He will demonstrate their data acquisition hardware.

Handheldmed.com is now live on the Internet. Handheldmed.com is a virtual community for physicians, medical students, and healthcare professionals interested in utilizing handheld computer technology in clinical practice. Handheldmed.com offers special tips, tricks, and how-to documents providing solutions for clinicians utilizing handheld computers.

Sybase is hosting a series of free seminars where you can check out the new release of Sybase SQL Anywhere Studio and its UltraLite deployment technology for the Palm Computing platform, and MobiLink – Sybase’s new server synchronization technology. For dates and locations, see Sybase’s Web site.

Here’s a story from the Detroit Free Press about what kind of automation systems you will be able to have in your car.

Remote Engineering announced that it has released its PocketVIEW product for palm-sized PCs running Windows CE. PocketVIEW Version 1.2 now includes support for color along with all the features of the original version. Those features include Redline tools, a Layer Manager, Pan and Zoom. For AutoCAD users, an ARX application is provided for exporting and importing drawings.

Ilium Software announced the release of Recordian 1.0 for palm-sized PCs running Windows CE. This release completes the Recordian software suite, adding support for palm-sized PCs to the already released Handheld PC and Windows desktop and notebook PC versions. Recordian allows users to record date-based information, such as project records, client and meeting histories, car and home maintenance information, health histories, frequent flier miles and more.

Flextronics International announced that Palm Computing and Flextronics are expanding their business relationship in which Flextronics will serve as one of the primary sources for manufacturing services and production of the Palm line of connected organizers. Flextronics will be providing support for Palm Computing’s North American product requirements from its Industrial Park located in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Bluestone Software began to ship Bluestone XML-Contact for the Palm Computing platform, an XML (Extensible Markup Language) application for 3Com Corporation’s Palm Computing devices. Bluestone XML-Contact lets Palm Computing device users exchange contact information with any corporate database, turning personal productivity tools into corporate information resources.

Bowne Global Solutions announced completion of a collaborative project that adapted the Palm Computing platform for the Japanese market. Bowne Global Solutions and 3Com worked jointly throughout the three-step process of consulting, internationalization and localization. The re-engineered product presents a completely Japanese interface to the user, and introduces a newly developed Japanese input system. Other unique features include an expense tracking application, as well as English-to-Japanese and Japanese-to-English dictionaries.

GoPDA unveiled a new design and expanded user features for its PalmCentral.com Web site. The new PalmCentral.com features include an enhanced user interface, new content and an e-commerce engine that will allow users of Palm software to purchase and download applications.