Thanks to Mitch for letting me know that the Palm OS 3.3 upgrade is now available for download. Go here for more details and to get the update.

Motorola the company that make the brains of Palm computers formally announced 2 new chips today for it's Dragonball line. You can read all the juicy details here. The big news is the new DragonBall VZ, running at 33mhz with built in support for 256 color LCD's and is fully code-compatible with the older chips. They also officially announced the 20mhz EZ, which is in the new Palm Vx.

Palm Computing today launched a new Enterprise section today on their website focused on business solutions. Also two new products were announced and are expected to be available in early 2000. Palm HotSync Server finally brings network hot syncs and what better to go with that then a Palm Ethernet Cradle.

PalmSource, Palm Computings annual showcase, will begin this Tuesday. The focus this year is on wireless, and business apps. The impressive speaker lineup includes John Chambers, of Cisco Systems, Eric Benhamou, CEO of 3Com, Jeff Hawkins, and Jim Barksdale. C|Net has an article on how the Palm market and PalmSource itself have expanded. Infoworld also has a piece on what to expect.

HandSpring has announced that the first batch of Visors has been shipped. If you were smart and ordered yours early, around Sept 14, then you should be receiving yours soon. My friend who ordered 10 of them on the 14th let me know that his card has been charged and ups should have them here around Wednesday. I can't wait.

Mike Cane let me know today that the CNET CATV program had a report on the new TRGPro PalmOS device, which included video.
Here's what he saw:
1) It looks exactly like a Palm IIIx. In the upper left corner, where "3Com" is on a "regular" Palm, is in quite large letters, "TRGPro".
2) The back was shown, and it looks like the back of Palm IIIx with a bulge that begins just about where the serial number plate is (on my P3). A Palm IIIx with a bit of a "hunchback!"
3) The screen was displaying the Compact Flash software. It was disconcerting! There seemed to be some DOS-like path line navigation involved near the top of the screen. In addition, the center of the screen was showing names of what were apparently directories on the CF card, they were marked as <DIR> next to their title!

Sun Microsystems recently acquired the Star Office Suite and is now developing it for use on Palms, WAP Phones and the Symbian Platform. It should be available by May 2000, read more in this ZD UK article. It will also be file compatible with MS Office.

MyPDANews, "The Most Complete PDA News Source", was launched late last night. Containing Palm, Handspring, Psion, and Windows CE news - this site is truly an excellent source of news for both unit specific users, and those who would like to keep up to date with the market.

News.com has an article with more details on the TRG Pro. It will resemble a Palm IIIx and features 8 megs of memory with 2 megs of flash. A voice quality speaker and support for Microsoft file extensions. It will also have a Compact Flash card port for add-ons. It will first be shown at PalmSource.

Semi-related to Mike Cane's recent Linux on a Visor aticle, this C|Net article discusses the use of Linux in embedded systems, handhelds and set top boxes.

The Palm Gameboy emulator, Gambit, which was first announced here, will not see a fully playable release due to the legal issues of releasing an emulator. You can read Maven's full email update on the subject here. I have played with a beta of Gambit and it does work quite well. It's ashame that we won't see a fully playable release. But there is hope, a springboard for the Visor could be developed to plug an actual gameboy cartridge into a Gambit module. Maven is looking for help on developing such a spingboard. And if you are interested in helping out please drop him a line. Read the update.