28/02/2000

The future's bright!

What a week we had last week - CeBIT kicked off and almost immediately, we had some new and exciting revelations to bring to you  - Pocket PC is almost here - with an OS and applications that are much more suited to mobile life that Windows CE ever was; a new, colour enabled Palm OS with which Palm Inc are hoping to battle Pocket PC was released; and more companies showing their Bluetooth projects, (such as Toshiba and Compaq), just shows how much development work is going on in this area.

These are certainly exciting times in the handheld/Pocket PC/PDA world. And we here at TopPocket.com will do our best to bring you related news and information as it happens.

Microsoft/AOL to announce deal

The question marks currently hanging over Microsoft's business practices certainly hasn't dulled their appetite. The rumours currently being bandied about say that Microsoft and AOL together with a third 'large' organisation will this week announce a deal enabling users to access information anytime, anywhere.. Watch this space for more info as we get it!

TopPocket.com is three weeks old!

As you've probably seen, our web site continues to be developed. Please bear with us as we continue to work on this exciting, new project - you'll be glad you did!

This week, we'll be working on our Bluetooth and Wap pages - so stay tuned!

24/02/2000

Palm Inc. releases colour enabled PDA

Click on the link for our CeBit report, (left), for more details.

17/02/2000

Symbian in Global Alliance

Follow this link to see how the Symbian story continues to unfold as the Psion offshoot joins forces with even more strategic players.

http://www.symbian.com/news/2000/pr000215b.html

11/02/2000

Palm OS® software version 3.5 almost here

The new, colour-enabled version of the Palm OS® version 3.5 is being made available to developers in pre-release form.

This new version of the OS includes a new user interface as well as other 'element's. Developing for this version is supposed to be much easier than previous versions due to enhanced development tools.

This news will be welcomed by users of Apple's now defunct Newton PDA as Apple is rumored to be developing a new PDA for release this summer that is believed to be based on this OS.

Talking of Apple, one of the recent trademarks taken out by the company was for 'Airsurf' - probably to be used in conjunction with it's AirPort wireless communications technology.

10/02/2000

Visor to arm-wrestle Palm in stores

Check out the following link on Handspring's plans for it's Visor device:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436411,00.html

On a related note, we've heard from numerous sources that the Visor is not upgradeable in the same way as the Palm machines are.

Psion launches new division

Find out about Psion's new division by clicking on the following link:

http://www.psion.com/news/newinfomedia.html

07/02/2000

TopPocket.com goes on-line.

Welcome to TopPocket.com - your 'one-stop-shop' for the latest info, news, rumours, tips, tricks and more from the world of Pocket PC's, Handheld computers and PDA's.

We hope to add to the various pages you see here as time goes on - making TopPocket.com the place to come for PocketPC owners. Our chat-room, 'The Pouch', is in development but should be ready soon - so please drop by for a chat when it's up and running.

Alternatively, if you just want to leave a comment, you can do so by mailing rod@toppocket.com

Thank you for visiting TopPocket.com - remember to bookmark this site and drop by again!

Rod Cambridge.