Orang-Otang Computers, Inc. announced an agreement with PDA, Inc., whereby PDA will participate in the sales and licensing of Orang-Otang

Cutting Edge Software, Inc. updated Quicksheet with new features and better performance that continue to make it a fully functional spreadsheet for your Palm organizer that syncs with Microsoft Excel. Find out what is new and request your free upgrade from Quicksheet 3.0.

At MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, ON Technology Corporation announced that future versions of Meeting Maker will deliver out-of-the-box synchronization with Palm Computing connected organizers for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. This new capability will allow users to synchronize their corporate Meeting Maker accounts and Palm Computing connected organizers over a range of networks (LANs, WANs, and the Internet) via their laptop or desktop computers.

Imagiworks LLC today unveiled its General Science imagiLab, a mobile computer-based laboratory that lets students collect and visually analyze a variety of real-world data at home, school, at a nearby pond, or wherever scientific inquiry takes them. The lab is the first in a series of solutions for K-12 science education designed to run on the Palm Computer. imagiLab is compatible with both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

It’s the ongoing question for those who are still attached to the FiloFax: Are mobile devices really better than paper? The San Jose Mercury News answers this question by comparing paper to PlanetAll, an online planning service.

onestep, LLC said it will begin shipping OneStep Connect 1.0. OneStep Connect features direct links to the PalmPilot and Palm III connected organizers. One click gives access to fax, email, Netscape, Explorer, MAPI-compliant e-mail clients like Eudora, phone dialers and Microsoft Word templates for letters, envelopes and memos.

The Stanford PalmPilot User Group meets at 7 pm on the first Tuesday of each month. The next meeting, SPUG’s belated first anniversary meeting, will be on January 5th. The Guest of Honor will be Adam Tow, demonstrating Palm Query Applications running on a Palm VII.

The Washington Post has this review of the Joy of Cooking CD-ROM. With the Joy of Cooking, you can use your PalmPilot organizer to go grocery shopping or to read recipes in the kitchen.

Here’s an article from ZDNN that has a few predictions for 1999. One prediction is that the real battle between handheld devices will be between Windows CE and PersonalJava, not Windows CE and PalmPilot organizers.

Thanks to reader Daniel McCarty for sending in this interesting item from Toshiba. Toshiba has this mobile hadheld device called the Genio. Genio is a pocket-size personal digital assistant with built-in Personal Handyphone System (PHS) mobile phone for web browsing and high-speed data access.