On Monday, Palm is expected to launch two new products: the entry level M100 and the updated Palm VIIx. Palm also sent out an Insync newsletter confirming that they will sell a limited edition Palm Vx in a choice of 2 new colors, millennium blue and champagne. They will be sold exclusively at the Palm Online store. The M100 is expected to be aimed primarily at the education market, which Palm has identified as a potential growth area. What remains to be seen is if Palm can keep up with demand for the new models in the middle of the industry wide parts shortage. There's more on the new Palms at this cnet article.

Palm's recent OS 3.5.2 patch fixes the long rumored memory leak bug and a few other low level system issues as confirmed by this new Knowledge Base article. Also in today's news, cnet is reporting, "Next-generation Palms based on ARM chips would likely support higher-resolution color screens and more data-intensive applications, including wireless services. Palm has said that it is focusing almost exclusively on bringing wireless services to its devices in the next year." Though not confirmed, I would be on the lookout for the new M100 and VIIx to be out on Monday the 7th.

Early this morning we made the move to a new more stable and powerful web server. The new machine is a Windows 2000 advanced server running off dual 600mhz P-III's with 384 Megs of ram. Please do all you can to pound the site (i. e. hit refresh a few times, tell all your friends about us, etc...) The new server should be more reliable and stable and those pesky ASP 0115 errors that occasionally brought down the site should be a thing of the past. If any bugs do come up please report them with a detailed message via our feedback form. Thanks for reading the PalmInfocenter and have a great day.

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Allow me to introduce The Internet Only Palm Users Group! This Palm Users Group is for those individuals who:
a. Don't have a local PUG in their area.
b. Don't have the time to attend regular meetings.
c. Still want to have the benefits of PUG membership.


Our Web site is located at http://www.interpug.com/iopug/, but it's still in the early stages of development.
Eventually, I would like to see the group have semi-regular "virtual meetings" via IRC or some other chat type software, but for the time being, members may engage in discussion via the IOPUG mailing list. To sign up for the mailing list, members need only to send a blank email to: (iopug-subscribe@egroups.com)

Wireless ISP GoAmerica said the number of its subscribers skyrocketed in its last quarter. The company had 18,367 subscribers as of the end of June. Excluding subscribers it acquired in its acquisition of Wynd Communications, the subscriber base grew by 376% in that quarter.

GoAmerica is a reseller of the Minstrel V and a provider of $49.59 unlimited wireless Internet access for the Palm V and Vx. They also provide service for laptops and other palmtops.

Have you ever considered taking your Palm handheld on your next business trip? In this month's feature I'll explore uses for a stock Palm handheld, share links to several third party travel applications and offer maintenance tips for utilizing a Palm on your next business trip.

The award-winning Expedia travel service today launched Expedia To Go, a new service that allows users to access essential travel information. Through a partnership with AvantGo, travelers can download personal itineraries, timetables for alternative flight schedules, driving directions, frequent flyer account numbers, and the phone numbers for their airlines, hotels and car rental agencies.

Palm, Claudia Schiffer and PTN Media today announced a collaboration to design and market the Palm Vx Claudia Schiffer Edition. A prototype of the elegant, brushed handheld was unveiled today. It will be available exclusively online Fall 2000 at www.claudiaschiffer.com.

Claudia Schiffer said, "I am excited to be working with Palm to bring fashion to technology and extend its reach to the wider population."

Meeting on September 14th in London, the Autumn NLPUG meet is being sponsored by a number of companies, all donating big prizes. The list so far stands at:

CES is offering a free copy each of SmartDoc and Quicksheet, Atelier is offering a free copy of SimCity, Palm-Tec is offering two free neoprene cases, Iambic is offering two free copies of Action Names and three of TinySheet, PalmUser magazine is offering six free embossed binders, Visionary is offering a free copy of QED, and Darren Chi is offering two free copies of iSilo.

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Palm User Group (LAPUG) will be Saturday, August the 26th, at 1030am. The LAPUG meeting will be at the American InterContinental University (AIU) in Los Angeles at 12655 West Jefferson Blvd in the Cafeteria. Check out the LAPUG web page for directions and a map to AIU.

This meeting we'll have a guest speaker, Dianne Campbell, the Area Sales Manager for Palm. Dianne has talked to our group several times before and it's always a great time. Dianne will be talking about new products being released by Palm. Come to the meeting and confirm all of those new product rumors you've been hearing.