The latest word from Tapwave is that the company is undergoing a transition and is moving away from creating their own branded models. However, the company still plans to develop co-branded products with other leading electronic companies and will continue to develop a next generation multimedia platform.

It now seems apparent that the rumored palmOne Tungsten X/LifeDrive is in fact called the LifeDrive as first reported. Two different sources are now claiming the name is LifeDrive and the device is set to debut sometime this month.

Mark/Space today announced that their current release of The Missing Sync for Palm OS supports Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger," and that future Missing Sync releases will take advantage of exciting new technologies introduced in Apple's latest operating system.

palmOne today launched the Treo 650 smartphone in Venezuela with Digitel TIM, making it the first all-in-one, quad-band smartphone designed to operate with Digitel's EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) network.

PalmSource today announced that Andre Dahan has been named to the PalmSource board of directors.

LandWare today launched Pocket Quicken 2.5, a completely re-written version of the award-winning, easy to use personal money management application. Consumers can instantly mobilize their financial data with a single HotSync, enabling on-the-go access to account details, credit limits, transaction histories, exchange rates and more.

Danny writes, Live! is specifically designed for the Treo 650 to take motion videos with and without sound. Recorded video can be saved and play back later. After the video is saved you can export the video to individual JPG or BMP files or MJPG AVI format to the external card.

StyleTap has announced the availability of StyleTap Platform for Windows Mobile based Pocket PCs. This exciting new product allows most applications originally written for Palm OS handhelds to run on Windows Mobile-based PDAs.

To celebrate the UK launch of the palmOne Treo 650 smartphone, former World Text Champion Arttu Harkki has exchanged his mobile phone for a palmOne smartphone, to type the fastest-ever email on the move using a QWERTY keyboard.

A UK mobile research company has released new data about worldwide smartphone sales figures. The report places Nokia and the Symbian on top in devices shipments with strong growth while palmOne grew only slightly with a shrinking lead over rivals during the period.

Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content to consumers, today announced it will power palmOne, Inc.'s Software Connection storefront, providing palmOne customers with an enhanced user experience and broad content catalog for palmOne devices such as Treo smartphones and Tungsten and Zire handhelds.