The next Nashville Palm Users Group meeting is this Saturday, the 11th. Please note that our meeting is starting ONE HOUR LATER THAN USUAL this month. If you haven't done so, please RSVP

I would like to know how are the thoughts on the fact that the Visor has a static non-upgradeable 3.1 Palm OS. I realize 3.3 is not that far beyond 3.1; but what about the possibility of being stagnate at 3.1 when other Palm OS upgrades may take it farther and farther out? Does this create a severe limitation in your eyes? I have already ordered a Visor a few days ago as my Palm III has seemed to become unstable - that’s another story.. Anyway, the Visor looks promising, but my biggest concern is not being able to upgrade.

PCWorld asks in this article: Will You Trade On Your Handheld? I sure would, what are everyone else's thoughts? Also in the news today is an article over at CNN that talks about the pros and cons of the wireless web today. I was also sent two good testimonials from Palm Infocenter readers setting up wireless connections with their Palms and cell phones. Hit the read more button for their wireless palm stories.

ZDNet has an informative series of articles on the future of the Palm Economy. They discuss and analyze Palms new strategy to shift into the OS business and talk about future competition and hurdles down the line. It's a very good read that pretty much sums up the handheld market to date.

Slashdot featured a story this weekend on some crazy, yet ambitious folks, porting the OpenGL 3D graphics library to the Palm OS. They’re calling it MiniGL and they already have some functionality and screenshots up.

Swivel Systems have developed the first General MIDI synthesizer module for the Palm Computing Platform. The device puts 128 different musical instruments and 140 drum sounds into a clip-on module that is about the size of a palm III modem. The device is expected to retail around $200 and should be available this summer.

There are a ton of Palm news stories out there today so here they are in one big blurb... CNET talks about how Palm is filling its management with lots of ex-Apple employees. They also have an article on Palms price cooling down after the IPO. InfoWorld is spreading a rumor that a color Palm VII is in the works for August. Red Mercury did some interesting experiments on the battery life of the V and the IIIc. ZDNet UK has a piece on Sun's Star Office suite for the Palm Platform. ZDNET also has an article on an IBM add-on device that will enable speech recognition in Palm devices.

3Com chief Eric Benhamou talks about Palm's IPO today - as well as the future direction for Palm and its technology. Don't know what everyone else thinks but the Palm price is just getting rediculous now. The following post over at Motley Fool explains what is going on. Also MSNBC has a recap of the Palm IPO.

Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today announced that its initial public offering of 23 million shares of common stock is being priced at $38.00 per share. Palm was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) and after completion of this offering will be a separate, publicly traded company. After the offering, 3Com will hold 532 million shares, or approximately 94.8%, of Palm's common stock. Read the rest of the press release here.

As Palm prepares its much-anticipated initial public offering this week, it is facing a new lawsuit from a small Virginia technology company that alleges it has violated the company's patents. E-Pass Technologies, a developer of smart-card technology, said on Monday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 3Com. Click here for the full article.

DALLAS (March 1, 2000) Cutting Edge Software, Inc. announces today a special promotion for its award-winning Quicksheet™ spreadsheet application for Palm Computing compatible handheld computers. Throughout the month of March, the top-selling spreadsheet application for Palm OS devices will be discounted by 20 percent from its previous MSRP of $49.95. Quicksheet’s retail price throughout the month of March will be $39.95. Further, the company announced that purchasers of Quicksheet are now guaranteed free upgrades for life.