NEWS November 18th, 2004 Arvale: Journey of Illusion released

Check out the new website at www.arvale.com, and download the demo or buy it for your Pocket PC!

NEWS June 1st, 2004 Sony to Discontinue Selling the Clie Out Side of Japan
Sony is going to stop selling the Clie handhelds in the US / Canada market in the fall. They will still continue to support their existing customers. The declining sales had a big part to do with this decision, that and the overly aggressive competition, especially at the low end handheld market. The current models will continue to be sold until at least the fall. These models include the TJ27, TJ37, UX50 and the TH55.

NEWS May 19th, 2004 Free Pocket PC Game and a chance to win a GameBoy Advance
Get Eggstreme - Yolks Revenge for free and also have a chance at winning a GameBoy Advance. The GameBoy Advance Prize will go to the player who submits the highest score for the TIMED GAME by 31st May 2004. Get the game and the details from www.clickgamer.com 

NEWS April 28th, 2004 PalmOne has a Couple of New Handhelds
First off there is a inexpensive colour unit, the Zire 31. Targeted for students and seniors with an ESP of $229CAD. Next there is the Zire 72, with it's 1.2 Megapixel built in camera and MP3 player and it's sharp 320x320 colour screen. 

NEWS February 13th, 2004 PDAmill releases Snails for Palm OS 5
PDAmill has announced that its popular Pocket PC game, Snails, is now available for the Palm 5 OS. It will run on most Palm OS devices with 320x320 or 480x320 resolutions.  There is a trial version available at the PDAmill Website.

NEWS January 25th, 2004 It has been a busy month for Ilium Software with two releases
Ilium Software has just announced ListPro® version 4.0. Listpro is a information / organizational tool. This application is available for Palm, Pocket PC, Smartphone and for the Windows PC. New to version 4 are: More Filtering, List Notes, More Export Options, Interface Improvement, Sorting Improvements and more.
IIlium also released Keep Track™ version 2.1 earlier this month. Keep Track is a simple way to track your ATM, Debit and Credit Card Transactions. With Keep Track it easy to cross reference your bank statements.

NEWS March 31st, 2003 RhinoSkin™ Now Protecting Dell Axim X5
RhinoSkin™ announced a new hard case for the Dell Axim X5. This case is available on the Dell Website and has a suggested retail price of $35.95. As with most cases from RhinoSkin this includes the StuffBack ID Loss Protection label. This label is stuck to your PDA and if you ever loose it and an honest person wants to return it, all they have to do is call the 1-800 StuffBak number. See www.rhinoskin.com and www.stuffbak.com for more details.

NEWS March 24th, 2003 Palm Tungsten W Coming to Canada
The Tungsten W handheld will be available in Canada on the Rogers AT&T network. The units will be available to purchase on April 23rd and some online dealers will start taking orders on April 12th. With a two year contract you can get the Palm Tungsten W for $599 (CDN) or if prefer not to have a contract the handheld will be available for $824 (CDN)

January 14th, 2003 New Handwriting Method On The Horizon
Palm announced on Monday that their next generation of handhelds will have new handwriting recognition. The new version dubbed "Graffiti 2 powered by Jot" will be similar to what is used now on Pocket PC handhelds. This is designed to make it easier for the new user. The days of the one stroke letters are numbered. The change may get them out of the ongoing legal battle with Xerox over the existing version of Graffiti.

October 28st, 2002 Tungsten-T from Palm is now available
The rumors have been all over the map for this one. The truth is this handheld is very cool. It has OS5 running on a new ARM based processor. With an open and closed position this one is very small and functional handheld. New to the Palm™ handhelds is a voice recorder and headphone jack to listen to MP3s and voice memos. It also has a nicely improved 320x320 65K color display and built in Bluetooth. The Tungsten-T is one very nice looking and functional handheld.

October 24st, 2002 RhinoSkin™ Introduces Cases For Sony Clié Handhelds
The popular handheld case maker RhinoSkin™ now has the Leather Flip Case and Leather Portfolio Case for the Sony Clié SJ30, SJ20 and SL10. If purchased online before October 30th RhinoSkin™ is taking $5.00 off the suggested retail price of $34.95. Get these well built cases on-line at www.rhinoskin.com

October 21st, 2002 DataViz Acquires ThinkDB
ThinkDB has been a front runner for a database program running on the PalmOS platform. DataViz today acquired the ThinkDB and other product assets from thinkingBytes Technology. Today DataViz released the database program under their own brand name as Smart List To Go.

October 20th, 2002 Handspring Posted Earnings for Q1
Handspring posted their earnings on Thursday for Q1. With a revenue of $54.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2003. This is compared with $61.4 million for last year and $49.0 million for Q4 in fiscal 2002. In other words they beat last quarter but are still behind last years numbers. The net loss during Q1 was $15.3 million. So this means they are up from last quarter but still in the red.

October 8th, 2002 Palm has authorized a reverse stock split
Palm has authorized a 1 for 20 reverse stock split. Trading of the new valued stock will start trading on October 15th 2002. The Palm board of directors authorized the reverse split after a vote that took place on October 1st at the annual shareholder meeting.

September 23rd, 2002 Palm's new handhelds are getting closer
The rumors about the new Palm OS handhelds have been around for quite some time but we are getting closer to the truth. "Six years after pioneering the handheld market, Palm, Inc. today defined a new era in handheld computing with the creation of two distinct subbrands for its portfolio of handheld products - the Tungsten and Zire families. Tungsten products will provide powerful solutions for mobile professionals and enterprise work forces; Zire handhelds will provide affordable options for individuals to organize their busy lives." (quote form a recent press release from Palm Inc.) So the Zire handhelds will be for the budget minded and the Tungsten models will be the ones we should be drooling after. The big "new model" has even had some pictures circulating that shows a 320x320 display with a slide down graffiti area. A little bird told me that the slide down area is incorrect, but I guess we all just have to wait a bit longer to see what these new models have in store for us. What we can assume that is that the lower end models will still be running on OS 4.1 and new upscale models will have OS 5, at this point everything else is pure speculation. 

September 9th, 2002 Rhinoskin Releases an aluminum slider for the iPAQ
This slider case is just like the beautiful molded cases that Rhinoskin has been made for the Palm's and other cases. This time it will fit the iPAQ. See the new slider at Rhinoskin. For an introductory offer (until Oct. 18) they will offer a FREE ClipPak™ when you purchase directly from Rhinoskin.

June 25th, 2002 Palm Inc. Releases Quarterly Earnings
With a loss of pro forma loss of $18 million or 3 cents per share, things might be looking up for the handheld maker. Revenue for the quarter was $233 Million up 41% at $165 Million the same time last year. Total units shipped was down from the same time last year as well. Palm, Inc. has the press release posted online with the numbers for you stockholders and bystanders alike.

June 25th, 2002 Todd Bradley to Be Named CEO of Palm Solutions Group
Palm, Inc. announced today that Todd Bradley will have a new role with the Palm Solutions Group come Sept. 1 2002. He will also join the Board Of Directors in July. Palm, Inc. has the press release posted online.

June 12th, 2002 Palm Interim CEO Eric Benhamou Hints at Three New Handhelds
Eric Benhamou hinted at releasing three new devices sometime in the fall. One that will be around the $100 (US) price point. The target is to increase the companies market by up to four times. With hints such as built in keyboards and more, we will just have to wait until the units are a little closer to release dates to know what they will be like. One thing for sure is the company seems to have a plan of how to stay #1 in the handheld arena, a task that is not going to be easy with all the new devices coming out by various competitors. Thanks, CNet for the news.

June 5th, 2002 Cutting Edge Software Inc releases QuickOffice 6.0
The Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Charting software has been improved. QuickOffice 6 now supports the high resolution screens, such as the Sony PDA's. It also now supports expansion cards and the desktop application has also been improved. You can now also convert Windows True Type fonts to use and also new is the ability to zoom in.

May8th, 2002 PalmTec and Scribble merge to form Proporta
PalmTec and  Scribble have merged to become Proporta. This UK online store offers hardware and software to the handheld community. They have also just announced the release of what they claim to be the smallest aluminum hard case for the Palm M500 series handheld. It's impressive specs are 4.6 x 3.3 x 0.67 inches weighing in at 1.6oz.

May4th, 2002 Handspring Chief Financial Officer to Resign
According to Handspring spokesman Alan Bush, Handsprings CFO Bernard Whitney will resign his position on July 1st to spend more time with his family. Anytime an executive leaves a company is not a good time, with Handsprings recent press releases of losses and falling stock prices this is really bad news. Bernard Whitney joined Handspring in June of 1999, he formerly worked for Connor Peripherals, Network General Corporation and Sanmina. According to the statement, he is taking time off from the technical industry to spend more time with his family. Read what CNet has to say about this recent news.

April 30th, 2002 New ARM Processors to reach 1GHZ
The ARM processors are currently used by many PDA builders including the iPAQ and HP Jornada and the upcoming PalmOS devices running OS5. ARM announced the launch of the ARM11™. These new processors are expected to deliver speeds over 500 MHZ at 0.13u foundry process and speed over 1GHz at 0.1u. These processors will consume less than 0.4mW/MHz on the 0.13u die. Read the press release for more details.

April 15th, 2002 Handspring releases dismal numbers to stockholders
Handsprings latest press release shows that they numbers were down for Q3, down 15% from Q2 and 52% from Q3 last year. Let us all hope the Treo sells like they expect, and they don't make any more slip ups like the one they make earlier this year stating they were "getting out of the organizer business". This slip-up may have cost them dearly. But the projection looks good as long as the Treo keeps selling.

April 10th, 2002 Palm™ was #1 in Canada for 2001
Palm™ was the king of the handheld world in Canada, with 71% of the handheld market share for 2001. Of all handheld computers shipped 85% of them were using Palm OS®. Overall the handheld market grew by 35% over last year (2000). This is fantastic growth considering that 2001 was a very bad year for the tech industry, with dot com's falling down and of course 9-11. To date, more than 16 million Palm handhelds have been sold worldwide -- 850,000 in Canada alone -- and the number of Canadian developers for the Palm OS platform jumped to more than 10,000 in 2001.

March 31, 2002 Sony's new Palm OS devices Coming Soon
Sony launched a couple of new Clié handhelds in Japan a couple of weeks ago. These new devices are going to be available in North America soon. Sony is taking advance orders for these new units that are slated to start shipping in early May. The PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V have a built in keyboard, high resolution colour display, an MP3 player and an amazing hinge for the display. The PEG-NR70V even has a built in camera. See Sony's Website for more details on these very cool looking and impressive specification new units.

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