Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:00:25 AM PST
by Ed
Handspring released their first quarter 2001results late yesterday and losses were much lower than analysts had predicted. They reported a loss of $8 million, or 8 cents a share, compared with a $5.9 million, or 13 cent, loss reported by the company in the same quarter last year. Analysts had predicted a 12 cent per share loss. Handspring had revenues of $70.5 million, a 36% increase over last quarter, which they credited to strong demand for both Visors and Handsprings in the U.S. and new distribution channels abroad.
Handsping CEO Donna Dubinsky said, "We feel very positive about our position as we head into the holiday season."
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:23:54 AM PST
by The People Below
Documents To Go Pro is now available from DataViz. This is the version that allows document editing, not just viewing. It has both Windows and Mac versions and costs $50. -George Mari
Gambit Studios has released version 1.1.1 of Liberty, the GameBoy emulator for the Palm OS. The demo version now has full functionality for 30 trys. After this, the demo version will only play 32k games until registered. Graffiti-area control is introduced and Visor users may now put games in their Flash modules. -Michael Ethetton
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:20:21 AM PST
by Jhereg
ActiveSky has agreed with Handspring to allow the new Prism and Platinum Visors to support ActiveSky’s media player, which lets users view and share video, animation, graphics, and enhanced text on their handheld. Users can download visual media to play later as well as stream it directly to their handhelds. ActiveSky has signed content providers to distribute news, sports, entertainment, and educational short programs.
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:19:20 AM PST
by The People Below
SFPUG Meeting this Thursday
The
SF Palm User Group will be meeting October 19th. The presenter will be
Roundpoint Software who will be discussing their one source publishing solution for all internet devices and demonstrate their browsing technology for the mobile internet. Giveaways include
iambic
Software's Action Names Datebook,
Address + , and
QuikBudget. Please check
www.sfpug.org for details. -Tony Ching
First Minneapolis/St Paul Palm User Group Meeting
We now have a date, time and place to hold our first meeting. The meeting will be this Saturday, October 21, at 2 pm.
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:52:57 AM PST
by Michael T. Ashby
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On Thursday, Sudha Jamthe, president of Coola will be the featured guest speaker on NPUG's bi-weekly chat. Drop by the chat this week for feedback from one of the industry leaders in mobile information. Don't have mIRC? No problem, just stop by the
NPUG chat page and enter the chat as a guest. It is October 19 from 7 pm to 9 pm Central Time.
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:50:57 AM PST
by Ed
Pocket Express has released its first Springboard: the Pocket Express Entertainment Pack. This collection features Tetris Classic, the only official one for the Palm. It also includes Lode Runner: The Legend Returns, PocketChess, Blackjack, PokerDice, and three solitaire games. It will be available within the week for $40 from
PalmGear.
Infinity Softworks Inc. has shipped their powerOne Graph and powerOne Finance Springboards. powerOne Graph offers 230 math, science, and graphing functions. Its graph wizard makes it easy to enter, edit and display equations. powerOne Finance has over 400 functions and all of the financial capabilities of the leading hardware calculators. They are available now for $50 from PalmGear.
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:30:05 AM PST
by The Riot
Browsing the web today I came across some pics of the Prism and Platinum in action. All these links were found at ad-visor.net.
Many of these appear to be from the press conference held in Tokyo yesterday to officially unveil the new devices.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2000 4:36:37 PM PST
by Mead Lawson
Grinder Gear makes cases for the serious outdoor enthusiast. They sell three models which can accommodate a large variety of palm sized PDAs. Grinder Gear differentiates their products by constructing them for those who enjoy outdoor sports from the tame to the extreme and require serious protection for their PDA. In fact, Grinder Gear like's to call their products "SUB"s, or Sport Utility Bags.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2000 11:54:20 AM PST
by Ed
OmniSky, the wireless ISP, today announced the rollout of its OmniSky 2.0 service. This next version offers up to 40% faster downloading of e-mail thanks to compression algorithms;
the ability to send a fax, phone, or pager message; the ability to direct messages from up to six POP3 accounts into separate in-box folders; a customizable home page; and much more. It will be available this week to current and new OmniSky subscribers online or by CD.
OmniSky also announced a beta of the Corporate E-mail Program, which will allow OmniSky users to wirelessly get their e-mail from Microsoft Outlook 98 and 2000.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2000 9:38:12 AM PST
by Ed
Palm is expected to announce today that they will be dropping the price of its color
Palm IIIc to $329 from $399. This is a clear attempt to keep buyers interested in its color device, now that Handspring has released the
Prism. The Prism offers over 65 thousand colors while the IIIc can display only 256, but with this price drop the IIIc now costs $120 less.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2000 9:23:06 AM PST
by Ed
As part of positioning the Visor as a gaming platform, Handspring announced today that they will be releasing the
GameFace, a faceplate with joystick and buttons that fits on the front of the Visor. It will come with a free game, Astraware's Zap!2000. Versions for most Visors should be available by the end of this year, while one that fits the Prism is expected early next year. The GameFace joystick will support most Palm OS-enabled games and cost $40.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2000 8:02:53 AM PST
by Ed
As has been
rumored for weeks, two new Visors are now on sale at the Handspring site. The
Prism is the first color Visor, capable of displaying 16 bit color, over 65 thousand colors. It runs at 33 MHz, has 8 MB of memory, and an internal rechargeable lithium ion battery. It is available now for $450.
The Platinum has a monochrome screen, runs at 33 MHz, has 8 MB of memory, and uses AAA batteries. It is currently on sale for $300. Both will be available in stores in November.
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