February 2001
On February 13 Palm Ventures announced its investment in Kenamea, Inc. (at http://www.kenamea.com), a company that's building an innovative Internet application communications platform. Kenamea's platform addresses the continuing strong demand in the enterprise market segment, promising to accelerate the availability of next-generation enterprise applications and make it easier to extend them to Palm OS based handheld devices. The platform is expected to change the way users interact with information and services using the Internet.

Meanwhile, back in our neck of the woods, PalmPower's Enterprise Edition put the focus on the legal industry. First we featured an article on Palm OS solutions for lawyers. With the advent of wireless solutions for the Palm handheld, it's now possible to conduct sophisticated real-time legal research anywhere, anytime. This is just one of the many great advantages intellectual property lawyer Ury Fischer has discovered since becoming a Palm computer user. In his article, Fischer shared his success at incorporating Palm computing into his life and work.

We had a chance to speak exclusively with Palm's market experts and find out more about how handheld devices can integrate into your legal enterprise, and we also took a more in-depth look at what can be done with West Group's Westlaw Wireless (at http://www.westgroup.com), a popular online business and legal research tool you can now access using a wirelessly enabled Palm handheld. The February issue can be found at http://www.palmpowerenterprise.com/tocs/issue200102.html.

March 2001
March 19 was a very exciting day for Palm watchers, as the company unveiled the Palm m500 series handhelds. Two new models--the Palm m500 monochrome handheld and the Palm m505 color handheld--have flexible dual, plug-and-play expansion and mobile Internet access capability in the form of a Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard expansion slot about the size of a postage stamp, a new Universal Connector for hardware add-on modules, and Internet connectivity software. Both, we discovered, are ideal tools for the enterprise, as we later addressed in an article at http://www.palmpowerenterprise.com/issues/issue200104/newdevice001.html.

The March issue of PalmPower's Enterprise Edition put the focus on the medical industry. Besides the traditional role of Palm computers as organizers, medical schools and other health education programs are quickly finding exciting new uses for Palm handhelds. Andrew Morton provided an exclusive inside look at the Palm OS initiatives being undertaken at the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Then, Dr. Darwin J. Liao examined some of the cool Palm applications created specifically for the healthcare industry in order to help healthcare professionals manage key elements of the healthcare delivery process such as billing and charge capture, medical charting, drug database and medical reference, electronic prescriptions, lab and patient tracking, and outcomes data collection. Dr. Liao also shared some of the exciting ways he's discovered to use customized, basic productivity solutions to help you manage your healthcare information.