Palm has reduced the price of their m100 handheld device from US$149 to US$129, and the price of their Vx handheld device from US$349 to US$299. The Palm IIIc handheld will also now be priced at US$299.

You can learn more about Microsoft's new tablet handheld platform and software via this site -- "Q&A: Computer Hardware Industry Leaders Announce Support for Development of Microsoft Tablet PC."

Pegasus Technologies has some advanced positioning and tracking technology using ultrasonic and infrared sensors that should make it possible to build next-generation input devices for a wide range of devices including handhelds and mobile phones.

AdLive -- which has announced plans to distribute wireless savvy kiosks that provide Internet access capabilities to handheld devices -- will reportedly be using Coola's InterChange two-way content delivery software as part of their kiosk solutions.

ZDNET's David Coursey examines Sprint's new cellular phone wireless data solution that offers up to 2.4-Mbps capabilities.

AppForge offers a "virtual machine" Booster that enables handheld devices to run standard Windows-based Visual Basic (VB) applications.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)