Toshiba is putting its .85 inch micro hard drives into volume production by the end of the year, ahead of schedule according to the company. Toshiba's tiny hard drive is the first drive to deliver multi-gigabyte storage in a sub-one-inch form factor.

palmOne has settled a consumer class action lawsuit brought against it a number of years ago. The suit alleged that certain Palm handhelds were defective and could transfer a damaging static charge to a PC serial port.

SanDisk announced today that is has quadrupled the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra II line of flash memory cards that includes the development of a new 8GB CompactFlash Type I card. The top end SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PRO and SD cards now offer 4GB and 2GB of capacity respectively.

More pictures of the rumored palmOne Treo 650 have been posted. The new pictures show more angles of the upcoming smartphone and confirm additional details.

A possible image of a upcoming Tungsten handheld has shown up in a new listing on Amazon.com. New rumors point to a slider-less model, with a 320x480 display and a release as early as next Tuesday.

During the PalmSource Euro DevCon, Handango announced the availability of InHand for Palm OS. Handango InHand is an intelligent, device-resident download client for smartphones and wireless handhelds. In addition, the company has announced a new initiative to support emerging software developers.

PalmSource and Research in Motion have announced that PalmSource is making the email API that will be released with the first version of the PalmSource Mail client for BlackBerry Connect available to Palm OS developers.

Portable Innovation Technology Limited (PiTech), the world's first PalmSource-certified original design manufacturer (ODM), and Qool Labs, today introduced a new Palm Powered smartphone, the Qool QDA-700. The Qool QDA-700 is also the first Palm OS smartphone to include a 1.3-megapixel camera.

PalmSource has introduced Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, an enhanced version of Palm OS Cobalt. Designed to accelerate the development of next-generation Palm Powered smartphones and wireless devices, Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 builds on the foundation of Palm OS Cobalt and provides integrated telephony features, support for WiFi and Bluetooth and enhancements to the user interface.

PalmSource today announced the release of PalmSource Web Browser 3.0, providing Palm Powered smart mobile device users a rich browsing experience along with an intuitive, easy to use navigation capability.  The PalmSource Web Browser 3.0 is specifically optimized for smartphones and wireless mobile devices.

PalmSource today introduced PalmSource Installer, a new Palm OS application installation technology designed to streamline the online and over-the-air (OTA) download and install process of Palm OS applications onto Palm Powered smartphones and other wireless devices. As part of PalmSource’s effort to make software titles more easily accessible for end users, PalmSource Installer can minimize the complexities commonly associated with loading software by providing one-touch software download and install functionality for Palm Powered smart mobile devices.