ZDNet has this article on how your PalmPilot organizer can save you money.

The “it” holiday gift this year is definitely a handheld device. ZDNet’s Jesse Berst explains how buyers can avoid the hype surrounding handhelds.

According to INTELECT ASW, Windows CE devices accounted for 25% of handheld computer retail sales during the third quarter of 1998. 3Com’s PalmPilot remains the market leader with a 75% control of retail sales. The report also says that the handheld computer category experienced a surge in model offerings during 1998 with an increase from 44 models in January to 62 devices sold at retail by September.

Microsoft has teamed up with Legend, China’s largest computer maker, to market Chinese Palm PCs. According to AsiaWeek, Legend’s $420 model, due out this month, will also offer a full color screen, the technology having been developed while tailoring it to handle Chinese script.

Dan Gillmor from the San Jose Mercury News takes a look back at the past year in the computer industry.

No, it’s not a bad Duran Duran song, it’s a portable music player from Diamond Multimedia. Salon Magazine has this review of this new MP3 player.

Last week we had a story on how to use your Palm III to break into cars. Here’s another tip from Wired News on how to use your Palm III to commit a crime.

Revolve Design has teamed up with Karrier Communications to offer the new UniMount/IntelliGolf Combo Pak. This includes the new UniMount-for-Golf mounting system complete plus IntelliGolf Birdie edition on CD-ROM. Revolve also has three other Uni-Mount offers for the holiday season.

InTime Solutions Inc. today announced capability to publish patrol schedules on a 3Com Palm Pilot. Schedules for individual officers or for a whole department are easily accessible on the Palm. If a Chief or shift supervisor wants to find out who’s on shift today or next week all he needs to do is click on his Palm and bring up the schedule. It’s great for officers too. A schedule for over a year can easily be stored as a single file on the Palm. When schedules change, the Palm is simply updated, via a desktop PC or over the Internet, using Palm’s HotSync cradle.

Thanks again to reader John Hensley for sending in this article on the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 for Windows CE. The AirCard 300 is a wireless Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) modem that runs on Windows CE 2.0 Handheld PC devices and Professional/Jupiter Handheld PCs.