ZDNet is running an article where you can read about the PalmPilot 3. It features a slimmer design, rounder corners, a new version of the OS, and infra red capability. Other than that, its the same pilot that a million or so people have already come to know and love. Thanks to Brad Wanner for letting us know.

CoPilot has been ported to the Windows CE operating system. With a Pilot ROM, you can now run PalmOS and programs written for the PalmPilot platform under Windows CE. I don't know about you, but I think that if word gets out, it might put a small dent in 3Com/IBM's sales....

Christopher Blizzard sent us This link to wired where you can read about the PalmPilot and why it has developed such a huge geek following. Things like using it as an instrument tuner, a web graphical web browser and a thousand other apps. Also mentions the Linux Port. Very interesting reading about a very interesting piece of hardware. Note to self:Pilot doesn't help you if you leave it at home.

Since the Java converter wasn't good enough, we now apparently can use PocketC a new Pilot C compiler. The web page doesn't say what OS this is for, so I may hafta download it just to see if it works. Very cool though...

adeelarshad82 writes "Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned tear-down from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the Kindle 2's manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."

Al writes "Researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai have developed a network-routing scheme that could save "internet-scale" companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft million of dollars each year by moving data to locations with the best electricity prices for a particular day. The scheme simply considers both the most-efficient routing path for data and the potential cost savings of routing it somewhere farther away. The researchers studied price fluctuations at locations across the country and used data from Akamai caching servers to test the idea out. In the best possible scenario--which would require more efficient server--they estimate that companies could save as much as 40% on the electricity bills (tens of millions each year). Google already operates at least one datacenter that shuts down when temperatures get too high. Is this the next logical step for internet computing?"

Misha writes "AMD has demonstrated a new Linux-based handheld at LinuxWorld. The OpenPDA runs on low-power Alchemy chips, with support for USB, Ethernet, UARTS. Here is press release. Among the highlights are: A comprehensive Metrowerks suit as the basis of OpenPDA applications, Qt, Java, Opera browser."