News.com has the following story about Royal’s new DaVinci Pro. The DaVinci Pro, which will be available this summer for $149, will have direct email and fax capabilities.

Proxim announced at Comdex/Spring ’99 that its RangeLAN2 wireless LAN technology will enable today’s mobile work force using Windows CE-based devices running the new client software to have wireless access to critical information on Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition.

Telcontar announced a relationship with Microsoft, which Telcontar will support a public API for use with AutoPC, making the power, generality, and speed of its just-launched Rich Map Engine available on AutoPC platforms. Telcontar’s Rich Map Engine provides virtual navigation, map customization, rapid retrieval of map information based on real-time GPS position, and route finding in vehicle and pedestrian modes.

ICONOCAST, a great email marketing newsletter, included this choice tidbit: “We love viral marketing! After Jason Kottke posted and later removed his Simply Palm parodies called ‘Simply Porn,’ a host of sites copied the campaign and put it up on their pages. Jaco just digs it when the Net bands together to defeat the evil enemy.”

News.com has the following story about Royal’s new DaVinci Pro. The DaVinci Pro, which will be available this summer for $149, will have direct email and fax capabilities.

Thanks to one of our readers for sending in this article about Palm Computing’s pricing of the Palm VII. According to The Register (UK), Palm users who had gathered at last week’s Spring Internet World 99 show to hear of the device “became decidedly hostile when Palm product manager Tammy Medanich revealed the company’s pricing structure.”

MSNBC has this article on how Palm users were not happy with Palm Computing’s pay-per-bits plan for the upcoming Palm VII. In the article, Palm Computing

AvantGo has made the source code for their WebToGo client available for free at their Web site. Although the AvantGo client only runs under Windows, the source has been released so others might create alternate clients (like for Macintosh and Linux). Special thanks to the operators of Macintouch for pointing us to this story.

Excite and Starfish Software demonstrated a pre-release of the Excite Planner. Built on Starfish’s TrueSync Server Technology, the Excite Planner will allow users to synchronize their information with handheld devices and desktop organizers including 3Com Palm devices, Hewlett-Packard Windows CE devices, Lotus Organizer, and Lotus Notes.

IBM and Sony said they were teaming up to deliver pirate-proof songs over the Internet and let consumers play that music on a portable device. This follows Microsoft’s unveiling of a palm-sized computer by Casio that runs Windows CE, features a full-color screen and can store up to 12 hours of CD-quality music.