The Miami Herald takes a look at handheld devices from Palm Computing and Philips. The article weighs the pros and cons of using each device.

Casio announced a new Handheld PC Windows CE device, the Cassiopeia, Computer Extender. The Computer Extender will be available in October through Casio Education Direct.

The Miami Herald takes a look at handheld devices from Palm Computing and Philips. The article weighs the pros and cons of using each device.

ER-CPR is a CPR prompting software for the Palm organizer. It makes all the lifesaving decisions and tells you what to do in a medical emergency.

Thanks to reader Bob Wilson for sending in this opinion piece from PC Computing about the state of the handheld market. According to author John Dvorak, the situation surrounding Windows CE is not getting better.

Yesterday, Contributing Editor Frank McPherson reported from Spring Comdex ’99 that Microsoft demonstrated the use of a Vadem Clio, Terminal Server Client and wireless networking to administer a Windows 2000 server. Frank is reporting today that Adam Anger, Microsoft Product Manager of Microsoft’s Information Appliance Division demonstrated a beta copy of the Terminal Server client. The software will run on Windows CE Handheld Professional edition devices and can be used to access either Windows NT Terminal Edition servers or Windows 2000 servers. According to Adam, beta copies of the software will be distributed on the Windows 2000 Beta 3 CD-ROMS.

Lucent has joined e.Digital and Texas Instruments to develop an MP3 device that will compete with other MP3 systems. News.com says that the e.Digital device will play files compliant with the new Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder specification.

Thanks to reader Bob Wilson for sending in this opinion piece from PC Computing about the state of the handheld market. According to author John Dvorak, the situation surrounding Windows CE is not getting better.

MacWeek columnist Jason O’Grady takes a look at Apple’s mobile computing strategy. Jason also talks about the possibility of a PalmMac/Newton replacement

ZDTV reports from Comdex ’99 on VTech’s Helio line of PDAs. The Heilo runs on VTech’s own HeliOS and looks like the Palm organizer.