Hotsync works for me, once I a) marked it as a Network connection, b) told my firewall to stop blocking the Hotsync Manager.

But I get an error message at the end, saying that the connection failed. I think it might have to do with the fact that you are supposed to specify how you are connecting via network, and Wireless isn't an option. USB and ultraviolence or whatever they are called waves are options. Whatever I pick seems to give an error message.

A program called Splashnews seems to work nicely; it does syncing without a real Hotsync, just going out and grabbing news stories from the net. This gives me my wish of having news automatically on my N800 even if I'm not in wireless range, BUT the stories have a line after a paragraph or so inviting you to click and Read More, but it doesn't seem to work. So you can get the top of the news, but for me I couldn't get complete news stories.