palmOne today is kicking off a new TV advertising campaign. Commercials highlighting the Treo line and Tungsten E are now airing in select US regions. The company has also announced today the opening of the first Treo smartphone store in the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, California.

PalmInfocenter has surpassed over one-hundred thousand article comments, new videos of recent palmOne presentations, a GPS solution for the Zire 31, a ton of software updates and much more in todays Palm OS quickies news update.

iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, has announced that its AvantGo mobile Internet service will reach one billion subscriber syncs in the month of November. In celebration of this milestone and the service's five-year anniversary, which highlights the growing momentum of the free service, AvantGo will feature a contest for subscribers and launch a special advertising program for channel partners.

Reports are now coming in that Sprint customers who pre-ordered are now beginning to receive the new palmOne Treo 650 smartphone. Sprint is currently the only carrier taking orders for the new Treo 650.

A new consumer retail analyst report from Europe says that palmOne help its overall lead in PDA sales though the European consumer retail channel in September.

Since launching the awarding-winning Zodiac multimedia handheld in the U.S., international demand has been high. In response, Tapwave recently formed partnerships with well-established companies in three major global markets to bring the Zodiac to local store shelves and online abroad.

Do you publish your own weblog and have a Palm powered handheld? Or want to start one but you don't have the time to sit down at a PC to write? There are a number of applications available so you can access your content management system software from your handheld and blog wirelessly from your PDA...

Sena Cases, manufacturer handheld PDA leather cases, has announced the release of their latest case for PalmOne's Tungsten T5.

Following our recent piece on Palm OS Voice Recognition, VoiceSignal has released more information on their new speaker-independent system for the palmOne Treo 650 smartphone. A demo copy will be included on the Treo 650 companion cdrom.

Beiks has announced a major upgrade to its MedicineNet Pocket Medical Encyclopedia for Palm OS handheld devices. The reference guide now includes more than 15,000 entries of medical terms, written and compiled entirely by U.S. board certified physicians, for access to healthcare related information wherever a user may need it.

palmOne is set to launch a new Zire 72s Special Edition handheld that comes with a silver finish instead of the usual blue. The new model will coexist with the blue version and will be available for purchase prior to the holiday season.