Palm Developer Conference Report

DDJ has a report on the Palm Dev Conf, which is worth a read. Although Palm did release the source code to all but 10% of their ROM, people may not modify it or use sections of it. It's therefore mainly of interest to those trying to extend the OS with cool hacks, but denies PalmOS the chance of becoming the "Linux of handhelds". The report also covers the Palm VII, a PalmPilot with a 9600 RF modem included, which distributes processing off the PalmPilot onto the base-station for expensive operations such as HTML parsing.