Palm today announced that the Palm Treo 650 smartphone is now available with the Real Mail solution for business services clients on the Vodafone Spain network. With the Real Mail solution, powered by Visto, Treo 650 users will have secure, real-time access to email.

iambic has announced the release of Agendus for Palm OS Version 10, a new version of its award-winning, fully-integrated, personal information manager for Palm OS handhelds and smartphones. This latest version of Agendus is more intuitive and includes many new features that simplify time and contact management. Plus, it has been optimized for one-hand operation.

DataViz today announced it will be providing a demonstration of its native Adobe PDF support for Palm OS at next week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show San Francisco, CA. This native PDF solution provides Palm OS devices with an image-rich, WYSIWYG-view of product brochures, manuals, annual reports and other common Adobe PDF files without requiring any desktop conversion.

A new lawsuit is being brought against Palm over defective Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones. The suit claims the Treo fail at unacceptably high rates, are inherently defective and that Palm has mislead customers concerning the defects.

BusinessWeek is reporting that Palm put a bid in to buy PalmSource. However, Palm was outbid by other companies and ultimately decided that the deal didn't make sense.

New evidence has been posted regarding the Palm Tungsten X and Zire 22. Signs of the new devices were found within the recently pulled release of the Palm Desktop v4.2.

Blue Nomad today released a Mac OS X edition of BackupBuddy 2 for Palm OS Powered handhelds and smartphones. BackupBuddy 2 uses a unique process for maintaining a complete history of any given device's files and settings so that users can restore individual files or their entire device to any previous point in time with the simple click of a button, a process called ZoomBack.

Palm today announced the appointments of Michael R. "Mike" Farese, senior vice president, engineering, and Rena Lane, senior vice president, human resources. Farese and Lane report to Ed Colligan, Palm president and chief executive officer.

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A reliable source has provided PalmInfocenter with some new details on Palm's upcoming fall handheld releases. Info on a Tungsten X and Zire 22 has shown up in the internal inventory system of a large electronics retail company. Read on for more details.

Palm today announced it has opened a new Palm Retail Store showcasing the current line of popular Palm products and accessories. Featuring an updated design, the 800-square-foot Palo Alto, Calif., store opened its doors this week at the Stanford Shopping Center, which offers one of the premier shopping experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Palm has lowered the price of the unlocked GSM version of the Treo 650 by $50. This brings the cost of the unsubsidized model down to $649 without a service agreement.