Palm Tungsten and Zire handhelds are continuing to gain momentum in education as thousands of the handheld computers make their way into classrooms and into the hands of students, teachers and administrators, Palm said today.

PalmSource has announced it has selected Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the primary banking subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, for its principal banking relationship and has established a $15 million line of credit with SVB for working capital purposes.

Palm has released a update to the WebPro browser, that ships with the Tungsten T3. The update makes a number of fixes and speeds up performance. Palm is also now selling a stand alone version of the browser for other handhelds.

Days after we published a piece on how Nagel mentioned that there are some new top tier Palm OS licensees coming soon, Sony Ericsson has refuted the claim that they are in talks with PalmSource.

Handspring has announced nationwide availability of the award-winning Treo 600 with wireless service from Sprint. The Treo 600 is available immediately from Sprint retail and business channels nationwide and online from Handspring.com.

Kinoma has announced the first major update to Kinoma Player 2 and Kinoma Producer 2, the leading video solution for Palm Powered handhelds. The new version features high res widescreen display, DivX support, Bluetooth and streaming movies from the Internet.

PalmSource CEO David Nagel has been busy giving interviews at the ITU Telecom World event in Switzerland. He gets candid on his thoughts of the competitions approach to the smartphone market and hints and some possible major new Palm OS licensees.

Forall Systems has released a new appplication that makes it easy to update and maintain a digital photo blog from your Palm Zire 71 handheld.

Palm, Inc. today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), the nation's leading independent proxy advisory firm, has evaluated the transaction and is recommending stockholders approve it.

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

Samsung is showing a new Palm Powered smartphone at the ITU World Telecom Conference. The SGH-i505 is a Palm OS 5 smartphone that has a rotating display and built in VGA camera.