Pen Computing Daily News Archives, May 8, 2001

Handspring has announced price cuts of US$50 on Visor Deluxe and Visor Platinum handhelds for "Mother's Day and Father's Day shoppers."

Symbol has announced plans to extend their license of Palm OS from Palm through April 2005.

The new Palm m100 and m500 series handheld computers will be shipped this Summer pre-configured with Vindigo's personal navigation content solution that includes data from a variety of media outlets in over 20 U.S. cities.

PixScreen Palm v1.0 offers color Palm OS devices the ability to view and share 360-degree PixAround media content and digital albums.

MaGlobe has announced a new Internet AutoDialer services that enables mobile users to gain access to the Internet seamlessly via a host of devices from over 7,000 worldwide locations. Pricing starts at US$14.99.

MobiMate has released WorldMate 7.0 for Palm OS that offers: a new world map; improved world clocks; converter (currency, temperature, measurements, weights); translate clothing sizes; and index of international dialing prefixes.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)