Electric Pocket’s Ringo application has been released and optimized for the palmOne Treo 600. Ringo has been one of the most popular ringtone managers for Treo brand smartphones, enabling users to compose and share custom ringtones or download and install new ringtones from the Internet.

Pocket Mini Golf is a highly addictive, multi award winning miniature golf game and is now available for the Palm OS. Pocket Mini Golf features 3 miniature golf courses of increasing difficulty, with 18 holes per course.

PalmSource today announced a new Application Contest, co-sponsored by PalmSource and Orange. The contest, which begins today, encourages the development of Palm OS wireless applications that use the Orange general packet radio service (GPRS).

A number of handheld software developers are organizing an effort to create a union against software portals. The Union aims to fight against rising commission rates that the portal operators take out of each sale. The groups claims ESd rates have significantly increased over the last few years without sufficient justification.

palmOne has released a new SD WiFi card. The new SDIO card adds WiFi connectivity via the secure digital expansion slot to the Tungsten T3 and Zire 72 handhelds only. Read on for the full review.

DataViz has announced that Documents To Go Premium Edition Version 7 is now available. With the addition of native Microsoft PowerPoint support, Documents To Go Premium Edition now offers native file support for all the core Microsoft Office document file types - Word, Excel and PowerPoint - as well as JPEG and BMP picture files.

PalmSource today announced Eric Benhamou has stated his intention to resign his position as chairman of the PalmSource board of directors immediately following the annual meeting of stockholders on October 28, 2004. The move signals the final step in the separation of PalmSource and palmOne.

DigiTimes has just published a interview with David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource. The Q&A session covers a wide range of Palm OS-related topics, including ODM arrangements to Palm OS Cobalt wireless support.

Apple has released an update version of iSync. iSync v1.5 is Apple's Mac OS X synchronization program that keeps info from bluetooth mobile phones, Palm OS handhelds, the iPod and .mac in sync.

PalmSource has officially released the final 1.0 version of the Palm OS Developer Suite (PODS). This is a new collection of tools supporting software development from Palm OS 4 to Palm OS Cobalt and Garnet.

After more than five years in existence, Palm.Net, is ceasing operations. The wireless service which powered the Palm VII and i705 handhelds is shutting down permanently at the end of August.