Wired News has a bunch of articles and some good coverage from PalmSource. Here's a few good articles for you to check out: Palm Developers want their share on the discontent in the developer community as Palm enters an era where software is free, and users pay for content and services. The Philosophy of the Handheld on the Jeff Hawkins school of design. And The worst ever Keynote, Palms down on the bad jokes going around PalmSource.

Want to get in on the action at PalmSouce? You can go here and listen to all the speeches and webcasts from the Conference. C|Net has a summary of Hawkins speech. Here's a PC World article entitled Reading Palm's Future.

Here's an article from ZDNet on the color issue. They provide some more insight into the color question. They mention that the next version of the OS will be out in about 6 months and they are discussing color with their licensees. Palm Station has some pictures up that are supposedly of the color os running on POSE. I have to admit that I am highly skeptical about the pictures. They could be easily be forgeries. They look good though and I'd like to be wrong. Also HandSpring's Shipping News page has been updated with a letter from Donna Dubinsky.

Penop has developed the first electronic handwritten signature program for the Palm OS. You can sign the dotted line your palm and transmit the signatures over the Internet as legally binding approval on electronic documents. Read more about it in this article.

Yodlee.com is a powerful, new service designed to make your life easier by simplifying access to all your personal information. What Yodlee Does for You: Consolidates and summarizes all your personal account information in one place - your bank balances, credit card statements, bills, travel reservations, e-mail, news, and more - for quick and easy access to the information you care about most. Provides single-click log-in to all your accounts directly from your Yodlee page, without having to enter your user name and password each time. Intelligently synchronizes your Yodlee information with your Palm using Yodlee2Go, so you have it everywhere you need it. Visit it at www.yodlee.com

Surf to this page to get the program that will upgrade your flash ROMs to Palm OS 3.3 as well as update Hotsync Manager to 3.0.4. The update allows you to sync your Palm devices twice as fast and gives you new ways to connect to networks and the net. It also adds the Euro symbol to your palm and seems to make your Palm device faster. Two hints before installing:
1. RTFM!!!
2. Disable hacks before doing the upgrade
Get it here.

C|Net usually the first to break real rumors, is reporting color Palms next year. This is an obvious move after the new Dragonballs were announced. The article states "Although the weight and price issues still exist, Palm is "confident" in the development work being done to reduce those problems." They also let slip that developers are getting Previews of the next OS, which integrates color graphic application programming interfaces (APIs) for the first time.

Wired has and article live from PalmSource The Future according to Palm. Infoworld is reporting that the Palm-Nokia phone will use an Arm chip. They also state that Palm is enhancing multimedia in the Palm and will allow hardware makers to utilize different screen sizes. Stay tuned for more later.

There have been a slew of new Palm designed web services launched lately and here's a recap. Squeezenet.com put together a wireless web portal (PR below). PalmZip.com is now live, which let's you view zip file contents on your palm. Plink! is a robust Palm net gateway. I also noticed this neat palm ping tool from Snakefeet.

This article just made me laugh. It talks about the possibility of Windows CE going open-source to keep up with the Palm OS and to fend off Linux handheld development. "As we see it, Microsoft is ill equipped to pursue an open source strategy, because it is counter cultural ... Windows CE looks sicker and sicker with every month that passes and may eventually have to be put to sleep."

ZDNet has an article on the new 33mhz color-ready chip. They talk about how the new chip should enhance multimedia and support color in future palm devices. They also mention that both HandSpring and Palm are actively evaluating the chips, which will ship in January. They also have a good article on what's next for palm developers.