
Here’s a review from Internet Week on Option International Inc.’s Snap-On GSM Adapter for the PalmPilot.

Thanks to reader Derek Meyer for sending us part 1 of a 2-part article from someone who got to use a Palm VII at PalmDevCon.

CNN Interactive has this article on how PDAs are becoming more mainstream. The article also mentions how PDAs are used as an extension of the PC.

O’Reilly and Associates has published a Palm Computing platform programmers’ guide “Palm Pilot Programming: The Developer’s Guide” by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan. Palm Computing will be using “Palm Programming: The Developer’s Guide” as their official developer’s guide.

Macworld takes a look at MacPac 2.0. According to the article, version 2.0 is an improvement over the previous version, letting you view and edit your calendar, to-do lists, and address book on your Mac.

MacWeek is offering some speculation about if and when Apple will re-enter the handheld market.

News.com has this report on the first Chinese-manufactured Windows CE device. Chinese manufacturers will offer the device, code-named Orion, with a color screen.

Netscape introduced it’s new engine for Communicator 5.0, which will help bring web-browsing to smaller computing products. Code-named Gecko, the engine is supposed to make browsing faster.

Thanks to our readers who sent in this article on how Palm IIIs are being used to break into cars.

3Com Corporation introduced a new program designed to enable Web developers and Internet content providers to provide Internet-based information wirelessly to users of the upcoming Palm VII connected organizer. 3Com will offer a free and comprehensive set of tools, technical resources and services for making information residing on existing Web sites accessible to users of the Palm VII organizer.