We are proud to announce the birth of MPUC (Malaysia Palm Users Community) at www.mpuc.org
MPUC is a group of Malaysians using Palm-OS based handheld computers. This page was officially opened to public only very recently (May 2000) MPUC is a Non-Profit Palm Users Community that have NO Affiliation with any Commercial Entity, neither are we supported by them. However we are very interested to work with various palm vendors on promoting their products to the Malaysia Palm community. If you're a vendor of a PalmPilot product or service, and would like to work with us, please contact Jon Lee (jonlee@mpuc.org) for more infomation.

The Nashville Palm Users Group has grown to over 250 members! After just 8 months since it's formation, NPUG has grown steadily and has now reached this membership milestone.
As a volunteer organization, the purpose of NPUG is to serve as a social, networking and information exchange resource for its members. The goal of the group is to nurture the development of a thriving Palm community in the Nashville Metro area.
NPUG wishes to thank it's members for help making NPUG a strong and vital part of the Nashville Palm community.

AvantGo, Inc. announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of shares of its common stock. Very few details were given. They didn't say anything about a date, the number of stocks to be sold, or the selling price.

Despite admitting that there are currently no known virus, worm, or Trojan horse threats targeting PDAs, Symantec announced that it is developing an anti-virus program for the Palm. Ron Moritz, Symantec's chief technical officer said, "Our goal is to safeguard critical data against potential attacks anywhere data wants to be." Because of the smaller storage capacity of handhelds, Symantec is hoping to eliminate the need for the large virus definitions commonly used in anti-virus products.

This statement is almost certainly made in response to recent reports about a virus that is spread by e-mail capable cell phones.

Blue-Connect, a Visor Springboard module created by Acer NeWeb and Widcomm, was awarded Best of Computex Taipei 2000 on June 7. It shared the award with its companion product Blue-Dongle, a USB Bluetooth device for PCs. Together, they allow for communications and file transfers between PCs, between Visor PDAs and between a PC and Visor.

Bluetooth is the code name for a technology specification for small form factor, low-cost, short-range radio links between mobile PCs, mobile phones and other portable devices.

Emwerks has announced what it claims is the first full-function Java support for Palm PDAs. The Kada platform utilizes Emwerks' proprietary technology to implement the JVM and Java Development Kit specs in a compact (155KB) form, while retaining the functionality of the full-size JVM.

PocketScience, maker of the Backflip, is changing its name to Pocket.com and expanding its focus to include becoming an information provider.

With the AltaVista Shopping Everywhere! PQA you can find the lowest prices and detailed product information on thousands of products with your wireless Palm. You can search for specific products or see a listing of all the products by category. Tapping on a product name brings up a list of stores that sell that product and their most current prices.

Imagine being in a store looking at a new VCR. You can quickly whip out your Palm VII and look a specific model up to see if the price you are about to pay is a good one. If you have a lot of chutzpah, you might even go to the Customer Service desk and ask if they will match the lowest price listed.

In Today's Philadelphia Inquirer There is an article "Sweating the Palms" comparing the Palm IIIx. Handspring Visor, and HP Jornada Handheld computers or Personal Digital Assistants. The article compares the 3 models, discussing ease of use However the author did not give the correct pricing information or make an adequate comparison of products. He compared the Handspring Visor deluxe to the Palm IIIx in memory and price. The IIIx is an older model introduced last spring. While by no means outdated, the fair comparison should have been with the Palm IIIxe. which debuted in March of this year. The IIIxe and the Handspring Visor deluxe both have 8mb of memory and retain for the same price of $249.00.
(Yes, I did email the author and point out the error)

For the benefit of those of you who have been living in caves, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft yesterday. Carl Yankowski, the CEO of Palm Inc., said in a prepared statement that "Palm believes it is critically important to maintain a fair, competitive handheld market in which consumers determine standards based on their free choice of superior products in areas such as innovation, convenience, ease of use, design and price."

While this isn't exactly a rousing endorsement of the Judge's decision, it at least seems tepidly supportive.

According to documents files with the FTC, Handspring will go public in about two weeks. They will sell 10 million shares priced between $17 and $19 per share. Handspring is looking to raise $160 million in the IPO. Recently, Handspring reduced the price of the initial offering of the stock. They had originally intended to price it between $19 and $22.

In a related story, Handspring announced recently that they will begin selling Visors in Central Europe this summer. MDS Holdings will be responsible for both reseller and retail channels.

Sony will reveal its much-anticipated PDA running the Palm OS at PC Expo, which runs from June 27 to 29 in New York. Fujio Nishida, the new president of Sony Electronics, recently announced that the product would be displayed at the giant computer industry trade show but declined to say anything about its price or features. This is not a product release; the device will simply be shown to the public for the fist time.

Sony had already announced that they would release in September a Palm-based PDA. According to c|net, it will be color, use memory sticks, have the same wireless capabilities as the Palm VII, and be amazingly cheap at less than $200.