J Birk writes "US News and World Report is saying that the Palm Pilot is still the dominant pda and has wonderfully fanatic users. Oddly enough all of this appears to be caused by an excellent design... "

nothing writes "Palm computing (a divison of 3com) has decided to make ROMS for their handheld PDA's free. According to Greg Hewgill,Copilot (Pilot emulator), would now be renamed to Palm OS Emulator and would be supported by Palm computing. They have also released a debug version of the PalmOS 3.0 ROM file. Your can get it and more from this link. Enjoy.. "

Mark Spencer writes "The microcontroller-linux group has released a kernel patch against 2.0.33 and made kits available, including the xcopilot emulator so you can try it out even if you don't have a PalmPilot or microcontroller handy. If you are interested, check out their FTP site or their web site uClinux runs on motorola microcontrollers based on the 68k processor. The Palm Pilot is currently used as the development platform. "

frank drewett wrote in with what may be the coolest geek appeal thing of the week. The uber cool VNC (you know, PC Anywhere, but free and works on Windows or X?) now has a viewer available for the Pilot. Man that's cool. Check it out Here.

Ichabod writes "O'Reily made a book about the PalmPilot. Suppossedly it contains all sorts of cool tricks and undocumented tips. This URL is pretty much just an ad for it. " Next semester I'm taking a course in programming small machines where we're gonna take on the Pilot as part of the class. Might just have to snag a copy and warm up for it :)

K. Fisher writes " Check this for some interesting developments on the freely available VNC software from Oracle/Olivetti. VNC is sort-of a free PC/Anywhere clone that works extremely well on X-Terminals and Linux. :) Well, someone has ported it to the PalmPilot! Check the URL and scroll near the bottom...the port isn't available yet, but you can watch an AVI of it in action on the CoPilot. I can't WAIT for this thing. :) (Oh yeah there's a port available for Wince devices too...big whoop.. :) "

Andrew Taylor wrote in to send us a link to the latest Spencer F. Katt column @infoworld, and says "Amongst other things, this article dicusses a new color PalmPilot, due out in 1998! "

Kevin Becker writes "TRG announced an 8MB memory upgrade for the Pilot. Looks like the Pilot Linux port is starting to look a little better... If nothing else it'll help it compete with the PDA-Formerly-Known-As-PalmPC's " You can learn more here.

-dsr- writes "This morning, NPR's Morning Edition ran a story on the rise of the PalmPilot, including an interview with Jeff Hawkins, one of the principal designers. www.npr.org should have this available tomorrow morning... "

Bill Meyer writes "3Com and Microsoft has settled out of court on the use of the "Palm PC" name. Read about it here here" Looks like MS will now use 'palm-sized PC' instead of the forma term PalmPC. It's not exactly ground breaking, but I think 3com was right to raise a stink on this one.

Microsoft has to stop using the term PalmPC to describe the newest PalmPilot-like Handheld PCs. 3Com had filed suit in France, Germany, and Italy, but the case will never go to court. Also painfully obvious in the report is the fact that third party software is needed to some things with Pilots that can be done with Windows CE. They also didn't mention the software is free. More ZDNet FUD?

fredric wrote in to tell us about this article where you can read that the Palm Pilot has orbited the earth aboard the Mir.

Darren Stalder writes " The latest review of the PalmPilot in the Guardian is wonderful and made me laugh out loud. Douglas Rushkoff outlnes why the PalmPilot has taken over the PDA world and why so much free software has been released for it - simplicity and transparency. He suggests that the PalmPilot is forcing us to reassess our computing priorities."

Itamar S.-T. let us know that PalmPC.com has been registered by 3com and is up and running. Next is this articleabout the new P3's sent in by David Cloud. Last Drew Daniels sent in this hotwired article and This ZDNet article.

Marcelo E. Magallon wrote in to tell us about a new mailing list for free software stuff related to the Pilot. Send the word 'subscribe' in the subject to debian-pilot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org if this appeals to you.

Uzi sent us this PP³ article Tap Magazine, and Robert Current warned us that PalmPower.com should have reviews up early this morning.

Raju Tavadia wrote in to give us this link and this one to a pair of articles about the Palm III- with pictures of the beast.

Hans Cathcart wrote in to correct me on James Nicolson's comments yesterday about the 3com/Pilot/Linux port. Apparently The Linux/microcontroller Project is still doing the port, so I'm not sure what 3com's connection was in all this. The huge response that the article recieved on Slashdot is something that high ranking people at 3com should see. Geek appeal sold a lot of Pilots- Linux will sell even more. They should do everything they can to support this project (read:Big cash donations to TLMP).

Palm Computing Inc., makers of the PalmPilot, has filed suit against Microsoft and Casio in both Germany and Italy, for "reasons relating to rademark law". Palm claims Microsoft is imitating and trying to use their name to successfully promote their "PalmPC" platform.

3Com has cut the retail price of the PalmPilot Pro and Personal. The MSRP for the Pro is now $299, the Personal's is now $199. These cuts foreshadow the introduction of the new Pilot, to be announced later this week, probably. At these prices, who can afford NOT to get one, especially considering the street price for these machines is typically 60%-80% if you shop around.

James Nicolson wrote in to tell us that at last nights SVLUG meeting, a 3com rep announced they would be porting Linux to the Pilot, and gave Linus a free Pilot. This is definately a great announcement- with the PIII coming down the pipe, every serious Linux nerd will bite on this. Pilot's are inexpensive and cool, and with Linux on them, they'll be indispensable.