PalmSource today announced that it is a founding member of the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum. The LiPS Forum, a consortium of leading companies, has come together to accelerate the adoption of Linux in fixed, mobile and converged devices by standardizing Linux-based services and APIs that most directly influence the development, deployment and interoperability of applications and user-level services.

PalmSource today announced it has officially opened nominations for the Fall 2005 U.S. Powered Up Awards. The nominations are now being accepted and will close on December 11, 2005. The U.S. Powered Up Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 14, 2005.

Astraware is excited to announce the release of My Little Tank, a fun arcade-style blaster offering hours of miniature tank mayhem. The game is available for Palm OS 5.0 and above devices with hi-res screens.

LandWare announced today the immediate availability of Leonard Maltin's 2006 Movie Guide for Palm OS. The leading authority on American film is back with the latest edition of bestselling movie and video guide.

TELUS Mobility and Palm Canada today announced the availability of the award-winning Palm Treo 650 smartphone.

DataViz announced today the release of Documents To Go Premium Edition version 8. This latest version of the Premium Edition adds native PDF support, providing an image-rich, WYSIWYG-view of product brochures, manuals, annual reports and other common Adobe PDF files and attachments without requiring any desktop conversion.

Avvenu today announced that its new remote access and sharing service lets users search their desktop computer from any web-enabled mobile device using Google Desktop Search, a free downloadable application from Google that gives users the ability to search for information on their computers. Once users search their computer, Avvenu lets users select a file from the search results and immediately view, share or download the selected file on their mobile device.

Palm CEO Ed Colligan has released an open letter to the Palm Development community. In his letter, he makes clear that Palm will continue to support the Palm OS and that new Palm OS handhelds and Treo smartphones are on Palms product roadmap. Colligan is addressing concerns that Palm's support of Palm OS is short-lived given the announcement of the Windows Mobile Treo. Read on for the full letter.

miniMusic has released an extensive upgrade to their BeatPad software to be included in the new Pro Music Suite. The Krikit Audio Engine has been added, bringing BeatPad up to date with the other professional applications from miniMusic. The new software bundle includes BeatPad, SoundPad, and NotePad.

Good Technology today extended its mobile security and management product family with the addition of Good Mobile Defense. Good Mobile Defense broadens GoodLink's end-to-end security model on the handheld to protect third party applications and handheld features with the same level of security and manageability found in GoodLink and GoodAccess.

Thacker Network Technologies has announced the release of Satellite Forms 6.1. atellite Forms is a visual integrated software development environment (IDE) that makes it easy to create data-driven applications for Palm OS and Pocket PC/Windows Mobile devices.