palmOne and PHT Corporation, the market-leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions, achieved a record year in 2004 by deploying approximately 20,000 handheld electronic patient diaries for use in clinical trials.

Eight months after exiting the US and European PDA markets, a Sony representative has confirmed there will be no new forthcoming Clie models in Japan. The company has effectively ended all Clie product development worldwide.

SanDisk today introduced the SanDisk Ultra II SD PLUS, a SD flash memory card with built-in USB connectivity. The new card, which works in any SD card slot, also can be used as a high-speed USB 2.0 flash drive.

During a weekend Palm Users group meeting in Paris a representative from GSPDA announced in response to a user question that Group Sense PDA will be the first licensee to release a smartphone using Palm OS Cobalt.

palmOne support has posted a software update that features performance and reliability enhancements for Treo 600 Smartphones on the Verizon network.

Stand Alone has released Quick News for the Palm OS platform, a powerful RSS News client for Palm Powered devices.

IDG News Service conducted a highly interesting and revealing interview with PalmSource CEO David Nagel while at the 3GSM conference in Cannes, France. Nagel speaks on the new PalmSource offerings that target feature phones and smartphones, the benefits of the CMS acquisition and makes a bold statement about the future of the Palm OS moving to Linux.

Yahoo! announced today that consumers can go to Yahoo! Maps and click the “Send to Phone” link on the driving directions page to send the full, step-by-step directions directly to their phone.

Led by strong growth by Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry shipments, worldwide personal digital assistant (PDA) shipments increased 6.6 percent in 2004, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. palmOne still held on to the worldwide lead in PDA only shipments (i.e. discounting smartphone devices such as the treo) and held a 30% market-share lead under stiff competition.

Kinoma has released an update to its popular Kinoma Player 3 EX, bringing the magic of immersive interactive images to Palm OS. For the first time, owners of Palm Powered smartphones and mobile devices can interactively view 360 degree Quicktime VR images with unprecedented quality, and simplicity using Kinoma Player 3 EX.

SplashData has announced the launch of its new SplashBlog solution for the PalmOne Treo and other Palm Powered wireless devices. The app lets users capture pictures with their camera phones, and instantly publish photos to a “photo blog” for friends and family members to see.