Palm Computing is offering $50 back on your Palm III purchase when you sign up for Sprint Sense Home Office. To qualify for this offer, you must purchase a Palm III connected organizer between January 9, 1999 and March 31, 1999.

Thanks to reader Nathan Alberti for letting us know he’s conducting this survey of Palm computer users. The purpose is for people looking for Palm users to contact in their area and also other information like the top palm websites voted buy users and the top hardware/software purchases.

Imagiworks, LLC announced it is the winner of one of the best of show awards given out by the NE Macintosh & Internet User Group for innovative products at Macworld Expo. Imagiworks won the award for imagiLab, the Palm computer-based science laboratories. imagiLabs are mobile computer-based science labs that let students collect and visually analyze a variety of real-world data at home, school, or wherever scientific inquiry takes them.

Wired News has this story about games for Windows CE devices. Toymaker Hasbro plans to create several games for Windows CE. Games to be released include Monopoly and Scrabble.

The Detroit Free Press has this article about electronic books. The article takes a look at two models that are available – the Rocket eBook and SoftBook.

Power Media, Inc., is ushering in the New Year with a Win Palm Software for Life contest. The winner of Power Media

Philips announced that it will introduce color to the next version of the Nino palm-sized PC. The new Nino will be available in the second quarter in 1999.

Intelligent Systems is proud to announce a New Generation backup program for the Palm Computing platform called BackupBuddyNG. The new version has been rewritten from the ground up, and includes new features, such as transparent support for complete backups to more than one desktop computer, and optional archiving of files deleted from the organizer so that files can be easily located and reinstalled if needed.

Thanks to reader Jeff Arnold for sending in the following news from Aportis. According to Aportis’ Web site, BrainForest Professional for Macintosh and PalmOS will be released within the next two weeks. The Windows version will be available as a public beta version at about the same time. The release date for the Windows version has not been determined. Because of the delays in BrainForest Professional, AportisDoc Professional is behind schedule and is expected to be available in the Spring.

News.com has this story on the new handheld computers from NEC and Philips. Both companies introduced their Windows CE devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.