PALM TO DISTRIBUTE eBOOKS FROM HARPERCOLLINS - Palm, Inc. said it
reached an agreement to distribute the HarperCollins PerfectBound line of eBooks through
Palm Digital Media, its line of eBooks for handheld computers. PerfectBound's eBook list
includes a variety of popular fiction and nonfiction. David Steinberger, president of corporate
strategy for HarperCollins, said Palm technology "lets us offer readers the editorial and
technological special features that are exclusive to PerfectBound eBook editions, while also
protecting our authors' copyrights." Palm also has distribution agreements with top trade
publishers Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press and Time Warner Trade
Books. For more information, visit: http://www.palm.com/ebooks (Syllabus eNews,
Resources, and Trends, 27 Nov 01)

BELL LABS CREATES TRANSISTORS FROM SINGLE MOLECULE - Scientists at
Bell Labs have developed a transistor from a single molecule. This presents a new direction
in computing and will lead to the common use of computers embedded in paper, clothes and
other common everyday objects. The single molecule transistors are smaller (10 million will
fit on the head of a pin,) faster and cheaper than the silicon types. Several years of testing
are necessary before they will actually be used. (Associated Press, 9 Nov 01)

NEW DEGREE IN WEARABLE COMPUTING - The first undergraduate, graduate and
postgraduate degree programs for wearable computing are in the planning stages at Graz
U of Technology in Graz, Austria. Supporting the programs, which will be offered in the
department of Electrical Engineering, is a Virginia-based company Xybernatu Corp, a
wearable computing technology provider. Graz U was founded in 1811 and was the first
university to grant a doctor of technical sciences degree in the 1901 Austro-Hungarian
monarchy. For the complete story see:
http://www.iti.tu-graz.ac.at or http://www.xybernaut.com

UNIFIED MESSAGING TECHNOLOGY ON THE RISE - New unified messaging
technology that will enable the shuttling of messages back and forth from eMail to voice
mail and and to fax will make people more responsive but will also increase the
communications loads across networks. Many companies already offer this technology on
a subscription basis, through customer do-it-yourself software or in corporate enterprise
agreements. (Associated Press, 5 Nov 01)