Palm, Inc. and Lexus announced that Lexus sales teams are now equipped with Palm m500 handhelds. Lexus has purchased 3,000 Palm m500 handhelds for use in dealerships nationwide. While customers test-drive vehicles, look under the hood or kick the tires, Lexus salespeople can access the most up-to-date and detailed vehicle information on the fly.

For many users one of the most exciting and useful new features of the Palm Tungsten T is the integrated Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth is widely seen as the eventual replacement to the older line-of-sight InfraRed (IR) technology. Bluetooth lets a wide variety of devices to connect and talk to each other and share features, wirelessly.

In this article PIC Editor in Chief, Ryan Kairer, walks through setting up and sharing an internet connection with your windows PC and the Palm Tungsten T via Bluetooth.

Today and tomorrow, if you're on the US east coast, you may be able to catch a handheld pioneer at a PUG meeting near you. Today, PalmSource President and CEO David Nagel will be participating in an hour Q & A session with DCPUG. Michael Mace, PalmSource CCO, will be hanging out with BOSPDAUG. And last but not least, Jeff Hawkins will treat the NYC PC users group to a talk on Nov 7th.

Palm Digital Media, announced that Palm Reader Pro was named Best eBook Reader at the Pocket PC Awards 2002 ceremony held at the Pocket PC Summit in Hollywood Oct. 23. The Pocket PC Awards are organized every year by Pocket PC magazine to honor the Best Pocket PC products.

Handango, the leading publisher of mobile software, released the second Handango Yardstick, a quarterly report on the state of the mobile software economy. Aggregating data from more than 100 sales sources, Handango has compiled the industry's definitive source for statistics and information for the mobile software market.

Macromedia, Inc. and Sony Corporation, today announced that Macromedia Flash Player is embedded into all of Sony's new CLIE NX-series devices. The devices are the first to feature Macromedia Flash Player support on the Palm OS. Macromedia Flash Player is the leading rich client for Internet content and applications across the broadest range of platforms and devices.

Handspring, today released a new version of its Treo Mail software that delivers improved email performance to Treo customers and adds support for Lotus Notes. Treo Mail 1.5 automativcally sends messages in the background and when used on high-speed 1xRTT or GPRS data networks, Treo Mail will synchronize faster and more frequently for an ideal mobile email experience.

The Compex irdaNet iRE201 is an Infrared Wireless Access Point specially designed to complement PDAs and Notebooks, providing connectivity to Ethernet, Cable/ADSL internet and 56K Analog Dial-up. The iRE201 enables Infrared devices to make a wireless connection to existing LAN and Internet though the use of IR. PIC reviewer, Davy Fields brings us this hands on review.

At the Palm Inc Analyst day 2002 and in an interview with the Register, PalmSource has begun to loosely discuss and divulge plans for the next generation Palm OS 6. The Reg puts it well when they say that OS 6 will be as big a change for PalmSource as OS X was for Apple.

Palm Inc.'s new flagship model is the Tungsten T, their first device running the new Palm OS5 on an ARM-architecture processor. The Tungsten T has an intriguing compact design, a vibrant high-resolution screen, advanced multimedia capabilities and integrated Bluetooth wireless technology. Read on for the in depth review by PIC Handheld Hardware Guru, Dan Royea.

Think Outside, makers of the Stowaway Portable Keyboard (PPK) for handheld devices, introduced their next generation Stowaway XT Keyboard. The XT keyboard is even smaller than the original Stowaway keyboard when closed yet remains rigid when open. The Stowaway XT keyboard is half the thickness and 30 percent lighter than the original Stowaway keyboard. Initially designed to work with the new Palm Tungsten handhelds, the keyboard is marketed by Palm as the Ultra-Thin Keyboard.