Motricity (formerly PowerByHand) has announced the best selling applications from its mobile online properties. The report lists the top Palm OS software on PalmGear.com and Mobile2Day.de.

UPDATED Yesterday, a large number of PDA enthusiast websites as well as some mainstream online media reported on a highly speculative report claiming palmOne executives "admitted" they are working to make a device with Microsoft's Pocket PC platform. PalmInfocenter gets the real word with a official response from palmOne.

PalmSource today announced Jean-Louis Gassee has been appointed Chairman of the PalmSource Board of Directors. Gassee, 60, was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors in May 2002. He replaces the outgoing Chairman Eric Benhamou.

Textware Solutions is currently running their Dom Perignon IV Speed Contest. The contest seeks those who can enter data the fastest on a Palm OS or Pocket PC handheld, using a stylus. The Grand Prize winner in each category, will be awarded a prestigious bottle of Dom Perignon.

Yahoo! has announced the debut of a new suite of search services for mobile users at the CTIA conference.  This new search offering enables mobile consumers to search for local information, images and Web resources on mobile devices.

SanDisk at CTIA introduced the world's largest capacities of Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO Duo and SD cards with 4-gigabyte (GB), 1GB and 2GB capacities respectively. These new cards are double the current maximum capacities and are designed to fit into a broad range of digital devices and consumer electronics devices.

Bejeweled 2, the sequel to the best selling PDA game, Bejeweled, will make its handheld debut less than a month after PopCap's PC version and will retain all the features of its bigger brother, including four standard play modes, classic, action, endless and the all-new puzzle mode. Additionally, five special bonus modes are unlocked as players progress through the various standard modes.

The worldwide market for handheld devices experienced its third successive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2004 according to IDC's latest report. Despite strong shipments from the top five vendors, the market continued to shrink due to a drop in shipments from market leader palmOne and the ongoing withdrawal of Sony.

Sprint announced plans today be the first wireless carrier to offer the new palmOne Treo 650. The Treo 650 will be available next month at Sprint Stores, Sprint business channels and online for $599.99. Sprint business customers will also have the option to purchase a non-camera version of the device later this year.

palmOne has released a ROM software update for the Tungsten T5. The update is being issued even before general retail availability and contains some performance enhancements and fixes some known issues.

PowerByHand today announced at the CTIA Wireless I.T. conference that it has changed its name to Motricity. The new name reflects the company's unified solution for mobile content delivery and the company's vision of empowering any mobile user to transform their device into a highly personalized extension of their life.