Microsoft Money is not built into the Pocket PC 2002. However, a user-installable version is available for free. According to Microsoft, "This new version of Money for the Pocket PC 2002 offers improvements in synchronization, enabling smoother, faster data exchange between the desktop version of Money and the Pocket PC. This seamless integration combines the power of Money's key features, tools and resources with the convenience of a Pocket PC, providing you with quick and easy access to your important financial information, any time and any place." Microsoft is also offering a new sync update for Microsoft Money for the Pocket PC 2000: "This upgrade significantly improves synchronization between Microsoft Money for the Pocket PC 2000 and the desktop versions of Microsoft Money 2001 and 2002. Get either of these free downloads at:
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/downloads/money.asp
Information Appliance Associates has now released a stable version of PocketMac, software that allows Windows CE devices to synchronize with a Mac. They will offer three versions: Regular (the version now available), which will allow file copying, file sync, and file conversion with Mac OS 9 and OS X; Professional, which will also include syncing with Entourage, Outlook, and other programs (should be available by the time this issue reaches you); and Developer, which will include all of the above plus an API for custom development (due late December).
www.pocketmac.net
SanDisk has announced the world's highest-capacity CompactFlash storage card. The new Type I card offers 1000 Kb of storage space. In practical terms, that's enough storage space for about 1000 digital images or about 20 hours of digital music.
www.sandisk.com/consumer/cf_card.asp
Pretec Electronic Corp. demonstrated a GPRS/GSM card in the CompactFlash form factor at November's COMDEX. The card will be available in two dual-band versions, 900/1900MHz and 900/1800MHz, making it useable throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. An optional adapter will allow it to be used in the PC Card slot of a notebook or PDA as well.
www.pretec.com/PR/pressrelease.htm
Pretec's new CompactTrio is a CompactFlash card adapter that accepts Multimedia Memory Cards (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, and Memory Sticks (MS). The CompactTrio allows any PDA with a CompactFlash Type II slot to utilize any small form factor memory card except Smart Media. With the use of a PC Card/CompactFlash card adapter, all of these cards can interface with a PC Card slot as well. Pretec also makes available the CompactSSFDC, a Smart Media to Compact Flash adapter.
www.pretec.com/PR/pressrelease.htm
According to Gartner Dataquest, worldwide shipments of handheld computers fell 9.5 percent in the third quarter of 2000. They give as a possible reason for the slump in sales the early announcement of the new Pocket PC 2002 devices, which may have caused potential buyers to hold off until the new devices became available. According to Gartner, Compaq appeared to be most affected. Its worldwide PDA market share totaled 7.3 percent in the third quarter of 2001, down from 16 percent in the second quarter of this year.
www.gartner.com/5_about/press_releases/2001/pr20011105b.jsp
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