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Palm saw its market share fall from 52.1 percent a year ago to 41.3 percent in Europe this year, despite shipping 347,000 units in the first quarter — a 38 percent increase over last year. Handspring made it to sixth place with 7.2 percent of the market, according to News.com.

Chinese hackers, belonging to a group known as the Honker Union of China, have declared an end to the recent hacking war. The group claims to have defaced 1000 U.S. Web sites, thus achieving their goal. Hostilities began after U.S. hackers broke into Chinese sites following the American-Chinese plane collision last month.

Lexmark has released Mac OS X printer drivers for most of their printers, according to VersionTracker.com today.

TECSoft has announced the release of a new interactive training CD for AppleScript. The CD, which also covers scripting FileMaker Pro, Canto Cumulus, QuarkXPress and the Apple’s Finder, is priced at US$99 until June 15, 2001 (US$149 thereafter).

Samung today announced the release of their new, portable digital audio player that is small enough to wear. The US$99 Mini Yepp is USB-based, measures only 1 1/8 x 2 1/4 x 7/8 inches, comes with 32 MB of embedded memory, and is Mac compatible. It is available now at CompUSA and should show up at other retailers in the coming weeks.