Galen Design Worldwide is searching for dead Palm III units to use as display models for our Color Replacement Case Kits. We need dead units that have good screens (not cracked or bleeding). We will pay up to $20 for your unit. So go dig up your Palm from the "graveyard" and make some extra cash. Contact (deadpalm@galenworldwide.com) to sell us your unit.

PalmBR - The Brazilian Palm Pilot WebRing is now available at www.palmbr.com/webring. Now Palm Pilot Brazilian users and webmasters will have the opportunity to use and be part of a Portuguese Ring.

[SAME AS ABOVE >> IN PORTUGUESE]
O WebRing PalmBR para Palm Pilot e compatíveis já está disponível em "http://www.palmbr.com/webring". Agora usuários e webmasters ligados a plataforma Palm terão a oportunidade de participar de um WebRing em Português.

Palm User Club would like to thank readers from the Palm Infocenter who have submitted stories and experiences of using their Palm computers. These can now be read on the Palm User Club. Sammual the webmaster of Palm User Club has also illustrated a "day in the life of.....a palm user" and has illustrated how he uses his Palm on a typical day, once again this can be read at the Palm User Club. Finally we still need your Palm experiences and stories as the aim of the Club (which is free for everyone and there is nothing to join) is an online source of sharing experiences of the Palm community on how they use their Palm in everyday life. We want it to be an inspirational site allowing anyone the freedom to comment on how they use their machine.

According to research done by Cahners In-Stat Group, the market for palmtops (pocket-sized devices using touch-screen interfaces) will soar an average of 37% through 2004. By comparison, sales of handheld PCs -- those using a keyboard interface and either Win CE or a proprietary OS -- will grow a relatively sluggish 19% in the same time period. By 2004, annual palmtop shipments will dwarf handhelds: 14.1 million units to 4.9 million.
In-Stat credits the difference to the relative size and weight of handhelp PCs over palmtops. If someone is willing to carry around a two-pound handheld, they would probably be willing to carry around a four-pound laptop to be free of the stripped down OS and applications.

According to Reuters, Dell Computer will soon be selling Palms through direct sales and on its Web site. Palm also said it will work with Dell to support growing customer demand for Palm products in the large business market. Palm products are available to Dell corporate customers through its Dellware program and to consumers through its Gigabuys.com Web site.

"Palm handheld products give our customers a broader choice of computing solutions, from the server to the palm of their hand," Karen Fuller, vice president of the Dellware Product Division, said in a statement. No financial terms were disclosed.

Vertel Corporation, a provider of mediation software for telecommunications networks, has announced that an optimized version of its CORBA-based e*ORB^TM software has been released to allow applications to be developed for the Palm OS. e*ORB was designed to enable wireless PDAs to be part of a company's intranet.
Optimized specifically for embedding in PDAs, e*ORB software will enable users, for the first time ever, to use standards-based CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) protocols to access their corporate intranet, retrieve documents from the network and check and send e-mail.
In addition to Palm OS, e*ORB software can be embedded in wireless PDA operating systems such as Windows CE and EPOC from Symbian.

Overclockers AU has a nice review of the Palm Portable Keyboard. The PalmGuru team has been busy and has new reviews of the Happy Hacking cradle, dbCleaner, Acid Freecell, and Documents To Go. SPUG has a whole suite of color game reviews, and takes on IOU mate and the Bible reader. Joe Malchow writes, The JetWare Store is now open. Buy cool t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads with Palm logos and images. Also, PFloyd pointed out that the PalmConnect USB kit does not function under Windows 2000. Palm is working on new drivers to resolve the issue.

The game we've all been waiting for is still on-line for a April 24, 2k release, but has been renamed to Dreadling, the second time this game has been renamed. Originally it was called Wolfenstien 3D before changing to Doomling and then Dreadling. You can get all the details at the new URL: www.dreadling.com. Read more for the full email.

AMS, the developers of the axxPac, has announced that it will soon be available for the Palm IIIe. Previously available only for the IIIx, the axxPac is a device that allows Palm PDAs to read SmartMedia cards.
The device, which has received some quite positive reviews, doesn't yet appear to be available in the United States, though the AMS Web site lists several resellers in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Japan.
UPDATE: A beta version of the axxPac API went up on the AMS site today. This is a programming utility for developers to enable their programs to interface with the axxPac module.

Palm and ePocrates have announced that they will be distributing Palm PDAs branded with ePocrates name and pre-loaded with ePocrates software. Under the terms of the agreement, Palm will provide ePocrates-branded handhelds with customized labeling and packaging along with pre-loaded software especially designed for physicians. ePocrates will distribute the customized Palm handhelds to physicians' offices across the U.S. Combined with its existing user base, ePocrates estimates it will have more than 100,000 users by the end of the year.

News.com has some details on a new wireless device expected to be revealed by Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry email device. The unit is said to combines wireless email and web browsing with Palm-like organizer functions. "Although RIM has an established base of customers, the company may find difficulty attracting developers to create applications for the device. Palm credits much of its success to its loyal core of developers... " said Gartner Group analyst Ken Dulaney.