Here's the reminder for those who has registered for the SPUG Meeting
Date : 13 March, 2000 (Monday)
Venue : Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suntec City
Meeting Rooms 303-305, Level 3
Time: 7.30 to 9.30pm
Here's the confirmed agenda for the meeting.

Want to spruce up your desktop with some cool Palm Icons? Well, thanks to Hideki Itoh, of Pixture Studio you can! We have Palm V / IBM C3 icons and PalmPilot Professional icons for all you retro fans out there.

To download the icons, stop by the NPUG web site. (A good Win9x program for changing your icons is E-icons -@)

Qvadis has selected Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", in a special PalmaServ Edition, as the Palm e-Book-of-the-Month for Fiction.

Building his treatise on the human soul on the metaphor of a journey into the darkest reaches of Africa, Conrad's masterpiece has the power to transfigure readers even today.

Company to contribute enterprise synchronization experience to SyncML Initiative
PALM DESERT, Calif. – (March 7, 2000) Synchrologic, Inc., a leading provider of mobile computing infrastructure software for enterprise, announced today at Mobile Insights 2000 that it will support the SyncML Initiative being driven by IBM, Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Inc., Psion and Starfish Software.
The SyncML Initiative is focused on developing and promoting an open industry specification for universal data synchronization of remote data and personal information across multiple networks, platforms and devices.

The Mercury center has an in-depth article on Palm and 3Com stock. They go over the IPO and take a look at the future prospects for both PALM and COMS. From the standpoint of most ordinary investors, however, the Palm offering has been a disaster. The first time the general public could buy a share of the stock, it cost $145. And the price has drifted sharply down ever since, closing Wednesday at $64.75.

This CNET article details that Japan will soon see a localized version of HandSpring's Visor. "Our plan is to be in the Japanese market by second quarter this year. We have already established an office in Tokyo. We intend to enter Asia via Japan first, then into other markets" said HandSpring's Donna Dubinsky.

The much anticipated color Palm has arrived on your favorite retailer's shelves. In this review the WiredGuy will point out what others haven't. The WiredGuy will reveal Palm's sneaky wording, and let you know exactly what he think of the new Palm IIIc.

Do you feel like talking to your PDA sometimes? With IBM's new embedded speech technology you may very well be talking to your PDA and even your car soon. PCWorld has an article on IBM's prototype Embedded ViaVoice software. In the demonstration, billed as only a technology demo, an IBM official made numerous voice-command and control calls to a Palm III, which responded by verifying appointments, and taking short messages.

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Palm User Group will be this Saturday, March 11th at 10:30am at CyberJava in Hollywood. Our guest speaker for the meeting will be Palm's Area Sales Manager, Dianne Campbell. She'll be talking about and demonstrating the new devices from Palm, including the first color Palm - the Palm IIIc! Don't forget - we'll also have a video camera available for more members to demonstrate their favorite Palm apps.
Check out our web page for more info: www.naxera.com/lapug.html

Reviews Galore! SPUG has posted several new reviews on our web site. Henry has a new review of AlbumToGo, as well as a writeup of his latest favourite games! SPUGer Pei Sin has done a major writeup of his experiences with the Palm V. Voxero reviews Intelligolf. Fore! Matthew Lai discusses about The Bridge for Palm V Keith Wong reviews JackFlash. Nathan talks about the Rhinoskin Aluminum Moulded Case

New Tools Add Software Distribution and Asset Management Capabilities to iMobile Suite
PALM DESERT, Calif. (March 7, 2000) – IT managers facing the challenge of managing mobile workers and their devices across time zones, state lines and area codes now have a new tool in their arsenal: iMobile Software Distribution, part of the iMobile Suite from Synchrologic. This is the first solution to provide asset management and software distribution for both laptop and handheld populations.