Landware is a major handheld developer, covering WinCE ("Pocket Finance"),
PalmPilot and Newton ("PhotoShow 2.0" gray scale bitmap display program
for MP-2000 and eMate 300).
http://www.landware.com/intro.html
[1997/08/14]
June 18, 1997, PR Newswire reports that Netscape announced
Netscape(R) Calendar Link software for synchronizing Netscape
Calendar with the 3Com PalmPilot.
[1997/06/23]
June 17, 1997, PR Newswire reports that Lotus has announced Organizer 97 GS. Among other advances Organizer 97 supports Internet Mail Consortium's (IMC) vCard standard for business cards and vCalendar schedule appointments items which may be embedded in Web pages and dragged and dropped into Organizer 97. According to PR Newswire, "Lotus and Microsoft co-edited the iCalendar specification which is now under review by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)." which included both vCard and vCalendar.
From a mobile viewpoint, Organizer 97 specifically includes
bi-directional synchronization with PalmPilot organizers.
[1997/06/23]
Feb. 26, 1997, TechInvestor reports that US Robotics and 3Com will
merge.
[1997/03/02]
On 1996/12/02 I downloaded the Mac version of the Palm Pilot demo. As
I said, Palm seems to be generally supporting the Mac and the Windows
platforms about equally. The demo is done using Macromedia tools
which is why it's fairly easy to create multi-platform demos like
this. The demo is fairly interactive and show screens that simulate
Pilot usage, including a working "simple calculator" function, but there
is no real addressing of the primary question for Pilot usage. That is
whether or not the Graffiti hand writing translation system is going to
be acceptable in day to day usage.
[1996/12/02] revised
[1996/12/09]