Astraware and Revolution Software have announced the release of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars for Palm OS handhelds. The game has been developed by Revolution Software, the original creators of the Broken Sword series.

Palm and Alltel today announced the Palm Treo 650 smartphone will be available through Alltel retail stores starting tomorrow. Also Telecom New Zealand announced the availability of the Treo 650 on Telecom New Zealand's CDMA network.

Palm and Cingular Wireless have made available a software update to the Treo 650 to version 1.17. The update includes optimized memory handling, support for Gmail and voice quality improvements.

Sagio Investments, one of the largest Palm shareholders, has released a new investment report on Palm Inc. The report details Palm's current business strategy and market analysis. The report even goes on to detail a number of future Treo product releases for 2006.

Mobileplay has launched its new service to provide free news, games, and lifestyle content to PDAs and smartphones. The free ad-supported service also allows users to share content and works online and offline.

The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) has been updated to version 0.70. The update features a large number of bug fixes and some new features. TCPMP is a free and open source video and media player. It supports Mpeg, Divx, Xvid, H.264, mp3 and ogg formats. This new version also includes support for enhanced podcasts (m4a with image slideshow).

UPDATE:
The download site for TCPMP can now be found here.

Palm CEO Ed Colligan and CFO Andrew Brown gave a speech yesterday at the Lehman Brothers 2005 Annual Small Cap Conference in Carlsbad, Calif. A video of the presentation has now been posted online.

Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting company, today released, "Blackberry Learning Curve Too Steep for Consumers as Palm Treo Sets New Usability Standard," its latest converged device benchmark report, which concludes that the Palm Treo 650 is the highest rated converged device in the USA, narrowly edging the Samsung i730 into second place and also beating the UTStarcom PPC6600 and Blackberry 7100. These results come from hands-on consumer testing by the Strategy Analytics Advanced Wireless User Panel.

Intellisync Corporation announced today that Intellisync has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nokia. Intellisync stockholders will receive USD 5.25 per share in cash for each Intellisync common share making the deal worth about $430 million.

Palm has announced that the Palm Treo 650 smartphone is now available to Iusacell's CDMA network users in Mexico. The Treo 650 running Iusacell's MovilOffice solution is an efficient, quick and low-cost business communications tool that lets mobile users stay in touch with the office with wireless email.

ACCESS and PalmSource have just announced that ACCESS has completed the acquisition of PalmSource. PalmSource is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ACCESS and will no longer be a separate publicly traded company. As a result of the acquisition, each outstanding share of PalmSource common stock has been converted automatically into the right to receive USD $18.50 in cash.