Qualcomm Inc. today announced it will release the commercial version of Eudora Internet Suite 2.0 by the end of this month. EIS 2.0 software includes Eudora’s email client and Web browser for Palm-powered handhelds. A beta is available now.

New features include multiple email accounts, multiple signatures, the ability to perform an action on multiple messages, an expanded sort capability for e-mail, and beaming of bookmarks and email messages.

Palm Inc. has reached 100,000 members in it registered developer program. Palm's registered development community grew by 625% in the past year, with over 42% of total developers hailing from non-U.S. markets. Gabriel Acosta-Lopez, senior director of alliance and partner services, said, "Besides our growth in Web content and development tools, we're seeing significant expansion in corporate, in-house development and other enterprise initiatives."

To celebrate, Palm Inc. announced a new support program, the Palm OS Developer Services Network, that will offer easier access to technical information, start-up business services, professional networking and job listings.

AnyDay.com, the on-line personal scheduling and contact-list service bought by Palm Inc. in May, has inked a contract with SpeechWorks International to add voice recognition to its service so users can call AnyDay on the phone and verbally add entries to their on-line datebook. This should be in place by the first quarter of 2001.

Last week, Palm announced they will be starting a Web portal based on technology acquired when they purchased AnyDay so it isn't inconceivable that some of this technology might eventually be used there.

PalmTracker
PalmTracker is a new service that helps the Palm community keep their software up to date. They offer hourly updates, a searchable database, e-mail notification, and more.

New PalmModem Available
The new 33.6 PalmModem that was announced last month is available. It is backordered on Palm's site but a quick search of PriceGrabber turned up several places that have it in stock for less than Palm's suggested $99. It comes with a copy of MultiMail Pro. Be careful that you are buying the 33.6 version. The old 14.4 looks the same and on some sites has the same product name.

Allied Business Intelligence has released a study that indicates that the use of Bluetooth will continue to grow strongly over the next several years, desite what it refers to as "recent market delays". While they project that only 56 million Bluetooth-enabled devices will be sold in 2001, look for over 1.4 billion nodes by 2005.

Back in June, both Palm Inc. and Silicon Wave demonstrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity for Palm PDAs.

Nashville
The next Nashville Palm Users Group meeting is this Saturday, September, 9 at 10:00 am. We'll be meeting at our new location - First Data Systems (1187 Vultee Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37217). For more information, please visit our web site - Michael T. Ashby

United Kingdom
Meeting on September 14th in London, the Autumn NLPUG meet is being sponsored by a number of companies, all donating big prizes. Vindigo and Palmtop Software are each offering £100 of free drinks behind the bar, effectively giving everyone free drinks all evening! For full details of the meet, see our Web site. - Steve Litchfield

As most noticed, we got a return visit from "Pimpshiz" and the site was compromised again. As seen in this News.com article, "In an email interview, Pimpshiz claimed to have defaced 110 sites with the message in four separate rounds of attacks--using an unpublished hole in Microsoft Windows NT to infiltrate the Web servers. The hacker promised a "huge episode 5" soon." More as it develops, many thanks to everyone who alerted us to the attack.

This year's DEMOMobile show seems to be all about products that aren't ready to be shipped yet. Lotus showed off an alpha version of its Mobile Notes for the Palm. Lotus already sells EasySync, which synchronizes Notes databases with the built-in apps on a Palm but Mobile Notes will be a true client to replace the built-in apps. It should be available in the first half of 2001.

FileMaker, Inc. has announced FileMaker Mobile for the Palm OS platform, a companion to FileMaker Pro 5 that will allow a user to transfer and synchronize data between FileMaker Pro databases on Windows and Mac OS systems and Palm handhelds. Users will be able to view, modify, add, and delete records on both the PDA and the PC and choose which fields and records are downloaded. It will be available this Winter for under $100.

A startup named ecrio has demonstrated a new instant messaging platform at DEMOMobile 2000. The ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform lets users instantly send handwritten notes in any language, as well as drawings, images and files to any Internet-enabled wireless device.   A client-agnostic platform, the ecrio Rich Instant Messenger runs across PDAs with Palm OS, WinCE and EPOC OS, Internet-enabled mobile phones, PC systems, and others. ecrio’s solution consists of server-based host applications as well as a multitude of client applications. Content is dynamically reformatted to the sender’s and recipient’s device limitations.

Sometime late last night around 2 AM EST, the PalmInfocenter was hacked. You can check out the hacked page here. The "hacker" simply renamed the homepage and made his anti-RIAA propaganda page the default. Fortunately no harm was done to the site, and it appears that this was part of a random "pro-Napster" hacking attack. Everything should be back to normal and we'll continue to bring you the latest Palm OS news.