Brayder Technologies is now offering JackFlash 2.6b1, which supports the Flash ROM on the Treo 180, 180g and 270. -Ed

iambic is offering Action Names Datebook for a special price of $18 from now until July 21. It is normally $25. -PR

Infineon is showing off the GSM/GPRS Data Module, a wireless networking Memory Stick at the Wireless Japan 2002 conference. Unfortunately, details are very sketchy. According to ASCII24 (in Japanese), this GSM/GPRS module will be available outside of Japan within the next year. It is only for wireless networking so it doesn't make the Clié into a smartphone. Pricing is unknown at this time.

PC Mall has a page on the PEG-SL10, a low-end handheld that hasn't been announced by Sony. If this info is correct, it has many of the features typical of Sony's handhelds. Like its current low-end model the S360, the SL10 has a monochrome screen. But unlike the S360, this new model's screen is 320 by 320. It also has a Memory Stick slot and a jog dial. PC Mall is offering it for $150.

Update: PC Mall has removed their listing on the SL10.

Update 2: Sony has officially announced the SL10.

Since Sony released the NR series a few months ago, some users have begun to have problems with its Memory Stick slot. They report that after owning the NR70 or NR70V for a few weeks, it will occasionally lose contact with the Memory Stick on the slot.

When it first begins to happen, this will be be a momentary problem. This means that the user will be doing something unrelated to the Memory Stick when it will suddenly beep like it has been ejected, then beep again and the application launcher will open as if a Memory Stick had been reinserted .

When looked at by itself, Handspring's last quarter doesn't look all that great. It posted a net loss of $15.4 million, or 11 cents a share. This is slightly less than what analysts had expected: 12 cents a share. Still, compared to the same quarter last year when the company posted a loss of $67 million, or 60 cents a share, these results start to look almost good. Certainly investors seemed to think so; Handspring's share price went up 12 percent in after-hours trading. This may have been aided by Handspring CEO Donna Dubinsky's prediction yesterday that her company would be profitable by the end of this year.

Facer is a new application launcher with an integrated "today page". Users can view their appointments and To-Dos within the launcher itself. It supports memory cards, change-able themes and has basic support for hi-res screens. It costs $13.

Pacific Neotek has released a beta library that lets the new 66 MHz Sony Clié models use OmniRemote. It should also improve signal quality on all models. -Ian Davenport

During his Macworld NY keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the today that Palm is now considered part of the Mac "digital hub." He went on to introduce iSync, which synchronizes address books and calendars between Mac computers and Palm OS handhelds, Apple’s iPod, and Bluetooth-enabled GPRS mobile phones. It will be available as a free download starting this September and requires Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar.”

According to an anonymous source in a position to know, Palm's next-generation handheld code-named Oslo will use a Texas Instruments OMAP1510 processor. This combines into a single chip an ARM-compliant processor with a DSP for multimedia capabilities. It runs at 175 MHz.

Palm Digital Media has released free versions of PalmReader for both the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. -K. Buffaloe

Digi-Map 2002 is a navigation app that works with GPS receivers. Maps are available for most of Europe. Users can plan routes on their handheld or PC. It supports storing maps on SD cards It costs € 150. -Davide Sacco

Microsoft has released a conduit to allow Mac users to HotSync with Entourage X. -Ed

Sony has released an update patch that fixes a bug in the MP3 player that causes a fatal error if a song has more than one Title, Artist, etc. There is a version for all models but the T665C. -Mark Malley

According to an anonymous source, Apple and Palm Inc. are working together to develop an 802.11 access card for the next generation of Palm's handhelds. As often happens with rumors, details are extremely sketchy, not even including what form the device will take. It could be designed to plug into the SD port like Palm's Bluetooth SD card or connect to the Universal Connector like the Xircom Wi-Fi sled.