You can either import photographs into Pixer or choose from a catalog of templates featuring commonly used business stationery as well as cartoon characters. Pictures and photographs can be annotated directly with your own handwriting and then sent to any email address.

Electric Pocket plans to follow emerging MMS standards, and future versions of Pixer will bring full MMS messaging to handheld platforms. Support for new media types, including sound and animation, will be added to Pixer as the host platforms and networks support them.

Simplicity for Mobile Servers
The general availability of Simplicity for Mobile Servers was announced at the PalmSource Expo by Data Representations, Inc. (at http://www.datarepresentations.com). This new rapid application development software was shown for the first time in the Cingular Wireless booth.

Data Representations and Cingular built integrated server and Palm applications for attendees. Then they sent responses and requests via Palm.Net to a server based in New Jersey. The demonstration was designed to show how quickly and efficiently the network operates and how easy it is to program MIDlets and servlets in a J2ME and J2EE Java Enterprise Environment using Simplicity for Mobile Servers rapid application development tools.

During the demonstration, pulling inventory information from a JDBC compliant database and returning XML to be parsed, cached, rendered, and displayed on a Palm i705 took only eight seconds or less on the Cingular Wireless Mobitex network. Simplicity wrote the application to use the network resources with the highest degree of efficiency.

I've chosen to spotlight Simplicity for Mobile Servers as PalmPower's Enterprise Edition Product of the Month. You can learn more about how the product works in that article, elsewhere in this issue.

Steve Niles is Senior Editor for ZATZ Publishing. He is also an independent filmmaker and freelance writer. For more information, visit http://www.sn-films.com.