Pennovate has just released updated versions of both Pennovate Notes and CalenNotes for Palm OS. Notes is a note taking paper replacement app. It allows you to take down notes in your own handwriting in a large paper sized format. The latest update features a GUI facelift and a new IntelliScroll feature that automatically forwards the page so you can continue to write as you reach the end of the screen.

Pennovate Notes is available with a 15-day fully functional free trial and costs $19.95 to register.

CalenNotes uses the same digital ink technology in a calendar/time management format. It allows you to create, manage and schedule on your PDA in your own handwriting. It also comes with a free trial and costs $24.95 USD to register.

Vodafone Australia, Palm, Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of BlackBerry Connect for the Palm Treo 650 smartphone on the Vodafone mobile network in Australia. The BlackBerry Connect software enables Vodafone's new and existing Treo 650 users to enjoy push-based wireless email and calendar synchronisation with BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Blue Nomad has updated BackupBuddy.net. The newly updated Professional version allows Palm OS-based Treo users to wirelessly backup and restore their entire Treo, including all third-party applications and data, over the Internet.

David Beers was in attendance at LinuxWorld San Francisco where PalmSource was exhibiting the Access Linux Platform. PalmSource also held a full day of hands-on tutorials in which they built and debugged native applications for mobile Linux. In this article David brings us up to date on ALP, its progress and other details on and what was being presented about ALP at LinuxWorld. Read on for the full report.

Reuters is carrying an article with a quote from an unnamed Palm spokeswoman that states a new Treo smartphone announcement will be made in the UK on September 12th. It is likely this will be the official unveiling of the next generation Treo due out in Europe. The Windows Mobile powered 3G/UTMS Treo is expected to debut on Vodafone in Europe before the end of the year.

Marvell has announced an industry first, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip solution designed for phones, media players, portable gaming consoles, smartphones, PDAs and other ultra-low-power computing platforms. The 90-nm CMOS Marvell 88W8688 chip aims to dramatically extend the battery life of consumer electronics devices, enabling a new level of mobile consumer broadband experience.

Resets are an unfortunate inevitability of the mobile computing experience, especially on devices running Windows Mobile or Palm OSes. Palm’s own devices have actually become more reset-friendly over the past year by adding larger, easily accessible reset buttons. One disadvantage of the Treo line’s removable battery design is that the battery door must be removed to reset the device. Here’s a product designed to address that minor but irritating oversight.

MotionApps has just released mVoice v5.0. mVoice allows you to capture high quality voice memos on your Treo and can also record phone calls on the Treo 700p/650. The program features a one-button recording and built in recording transfers to a Windows or Mac desktop. The new version includes an improved interface, 4x higher compression, recording categories and also has a built in usb card reading ability.

mVoice v5.0 is available now with a free trial. It costs $24.99 USD to register.

Kris brings us this review of Palm's newly announced GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition for Treo smartphones. The new GPS Navigator provides users with voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions to easily find their destinations as well as millions of points of interest, including gas stations, restaurants, parks, airports and more using the latest TomTom Navigator 6 software. Read on for the full review.

Other than the lack of a larger LCD, my biggest gripe with Palm’s Treo line is the baffling lack of a standard 3.5mm stereo headphone jack. With SD cards currently available in 4gb capacities and larger sizes on the horizon, users will naturally to want to realize their Treo’s media playback/gaming capabilities in glorious stereo. Read on for the full review of Palm's 3.5mm Treo headphone adapter.

Palm today announced the Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition, featuring new TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software. Drivers using the new GPS Navigator with their Treo smartphones can rely on voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions to easily find their destinations as well as millions of points of interest, including gas stations, restaurants, parks, airports and more.