Back in early 2001, Acer became a licensee of the Palm OS. The company was one of the first licensees that was going to target the Chinese PDA market. They released 3 Palm Powered PDAs, then seemed to completely vanish from the Palm OS scene...

A new report on the European Mobile device market from IDC confirms the positive growth trend in the region in the recent EMEA report. IDC shows that palmOne regained the lead in the European standalone handheld market.

PalmInfocenter reviewer Kerry Lannert takes an in depth look at the new Clie Organizer Software from Sony. The updated PIM and multimedia suite is included with the Clie TH55 handheld. The review covers all aspects of the new program and also compares functionality with the new palmOne software and third party programs.

Handmark has released a public beta of a new multiplayer version of Warfare Incorporated. The game features real time strategy gameplay, high resolution graphics and enhanced sound.

A new report compiled by research firm Canalys shows that HP has maintained a slight lead over palmOne in the EMEA market for Handhelds and Smartphones. Overall the area saw a healthly 62% increase in mobile device growth over the year.

Landware has updated their popular Wine Enthusiast guide. The new version adds many 2002 vintages and updated reviews.

Good Technology and palmOne today announced that the GoodLink wireless messaging and data access system, which is optimized for the Treo 600, has received the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certification.

Chatopus v1.11 is now available. Chatopus is a Jabber/XMPP client for instant messaging (IM) on the Palm OS platform. Chatopus allows users to communicate with Jabber contacts and many other popular IM clients.

The FCC has taken the wraps off a new upcoming Palm Powered Smartphone from Samsung. The SPH-i550 is a CDMA flip phone with a high resolution screen, SD slot and a megapixel digital camera.

PocketSensei today announced VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever is now available for Palm Powered devices. It features the most in-depth and full-featured movie guide ever created for the Palm OS platform.

A new beta version of Lightspeed has been announced. The utility enables many Palm OS 5 handheld processors to be overclocked or underclock. The new version is now compatible with Intel XScale, TI OMAP, and Motorola i.MXL processors.