Toysoft's feature packed Treo ringtone and caller ID manager, LightWav has been updated to v2.2. The program has a number of detailed calling features that allow you to create custom mp3/ogg/wav ringtones, assign custom photo caller ID screens, define and schedule volume profiles and and SMS and call blocking filters. The app also offers full screen picture and video caller ID. The new updates include numerous fixes and new options, outbound picture ID's, custom starting and ending points for mp3 ringtones, profile screen brightness control and new larger fonts.

LightWav is available now for Palm OS Treos with a free trial. It sells for $24.95 USD.

Handango today released the 2007 First Quarter edition of the Handango Yardstick, a quarterly report on the state of the mobile content industry. Handango's report looks at device and mobile software popularity based on sales at its online properties. This most recent version of the Yardstick indicated that three smartphones launched within the past year were among the top ten devices adding software based on revenue. The Motorola Q topped the list, overtaking the Palm Treo 650 which had been in the top spot for more than a year, with the BlackBerry Pearl following close behind. The Palm Treo 680, also a newly-released device, ranked at number ten.

Resco has released a new update to Resco Neeews! for Palm OS — its user-friendly newsreader built specifically for mobile users. Resco Neeews! has over 350 feeds pre-configured, provides feed searching and can auto extract a feed from a website. The app also allows you to define customized "newspapers" from a selected list of feeds, and lets you view items in a river of news style layout. Customized feeds and newspapers can also be used as home screen launcher icons. Also included is support for OMPL sharing, automatic updates and streaming podcast support. The latest update includes a number of fixes and performance updates and the ability to save images and search articles.

Resco Neeews! is available now with a free trial. It costs $19.95 to register, but is currently on sale for $14.95.

The PalmInfocenter software store is running a special end of the month 20% off all software sale.

The discount is good on all Palm OS and Windows Mobile software for your entire software order. The sale will run through the end of Monday. To take advantage of this deep discount enter the coupon code: 20PIC in your shopping cart when checking out.

You can also take advantage of the sale when using the PIC Mobile store to shop and download directly on your device.

Tech Center Labs has released an interesting piece of freeware for the Palm OS. Inspired by Jeff Hawkins book ON INTELLIGENCE and the work they are doing at Numenta, M5_htm Computer is an interactive simulation of memory prediction framework for Palm OS devices 3.5 and above.

The Input and Output environment is a 16 X 16 grid to make it easy to share data with a cluster of Palms. The software "learns" sequences of what is happening in its environment a step at a time, the present prediction grid was caused by the previous 'cause' grid (which was the prediction of a previous grid). M-5 can learn many memory sequences of various lengths and use a combination of them to interact with the environment.

MotionApps has released a major update to its mRing Treo software. mRing is a Treo ringtone, profile and call manager application. It allows you to assign MP3, MIDI, WAV ring tones and custom full screen pictures to your contacts and contact categories, to define and schedule profiles (silent, meeting, loud etc.), filter incoming calls and define blacklists and much more. The new version also includes a few new mp3 ringtones and also has built in desktop memory card reading functionality.

mRing v4.0.1 is available now for Palm OS. It is also available for Windows Mobile. It sells for $29.99 and includes a free trial period.

Seven Seas is Astraware and PopCap’s take on high-stakes action and strategy on the high seas. Seven Seas is hard to categorize but easy to play. Essentially, it’s a pirate-themed version of Battleship with some real-time, cannon blastin’ action elements (think Rampart) and chess (think Rook’s Revenge) strategy thrown in for good measure. Read on for the full game review.

Leaked Sprint roadmaps and insider information are becoming de rigueur for Engadget and their mobile tipster, the Boy Genius. Now Engadget Mobile are reporting some concrete details on the upcoming Palm Treo 755p. The just-released and subsequently leaked Sprint internal memo is promising a handful of features on this latest Treo not present in its 700p predecessor. Straight from the report are "in box support for IM, NFL Mobile, Mobile Voice Control, voice dialing". Most of these features have been rumored or seen in device spy shots previously. No word as of yet if the voice dialing is the same as the application Palm currently sells for $19.95 and includes as a free trial on current Treos.

Additional tidbits from this latest leak is that the 700p is still scheduled for EOL sometime in May. Assuming things continue to go as planned for Palm and Sprint, the 700p's ROM update is set to arrive sometime during the last week of May, making it the first Palm device to be EOL'd prior to receiving its first ROM update. The May 14th launch date for the 755p mentioned in earlier reports is still planned and reinforced in this latest document.

Palm has announced a Windows Mobile Treo developer contest. The contest seeks the "hottest new" Windows Mobile applications that run on Treo smartphones. Developers can submit a new freeware, shareware or commercial application, or port an existing software app to the Treo. The entries will be judged on originality, usability, utility and the "Wow" factor of graphical look and feel. All contest entries must be submitted by June 5th 2007 and you can find the full set of details here. Four finalists and one grand prize winner will be chosen on June 7th at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference in Orlando, Florida. Palm has not yet detailed what the prizes will be.

Mobile Development software provider AppForge went out of business and shut down its services late last month. New reports this week confirm that Oracle has purchased the intellectual property assets of the former company.

Atlanta-based AppForge was founded in 2000 and provided tools for Visual Studio developers to create comprehensive on-device mobile applications for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. Its main features included translation of Visual Basic .NET and C# apps to mobile systems, custom cross platform applications, on device debugging and support for many of the latest Palm and Treo devices.

A new version of Skinner optimized for the Treo 680 has just been released. The program allows you to customize your Treo phone application and numeric dialing pad with an assortment of skins. The application includes a number of themes and spalsh screens and comes with a desktop program and tutorial on creating your own skins. The developerr, 79bmedia also maintains a list of free skins you can use with the program.

Skinner for Treo 680 v4.1 comes with a fully functional two week trial. After the trial period the program costs $14.99 to register. It is currently on sale for $9.99 until the end of the month.