A company rep from PopCap Games has recently disclosed that the game studio intends to release a number of games for webOS and the Palm Pre. While a little light on details, this article on softpedia reports on an audio interview that popular titles such as Bejeweled, Zuma or Peggle may debut in native webOS form soon.

This should be good news to Pre owners currently exhausted with the only two current webOS gaming choices, Connect4 and Sudoku. No timeframe or other details were given, but seeing that Palm recently expanded its developer program new games should be in the mix soon.

European Palm fans rejoice, for the wait is (nearly) over. Palm has just confirmed via press release that their latest Pre smartphone will be debuting "in time for the holidays" in the UK, Ireland and Germany exclusively on the O2 network, and exclusively in Spain on Movistar. No word on cost as of yet, nor the availability of unlocked versions, with the release merely saying "pricing for the phone has not yet been determined."

"Europe continues to be an important region for Palm, and we're proud to work with O2 and Movistar to spread the excitement Palm Pre has already ignited in North America," said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. "Since we showed Palm Pre at Mobile World Congress in February, there's been a great deal of anticipation for an announcement about European availability, and that day is here."

The Wall Street Journal has a report out today that claims the US Department of Justice has begun an initial review to determine whether large U.S. telecom companies such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. have abused their market power.

The article cites people "familiar with the matter" and says that the review is in its very early stages. They are looking at complaints of anti-competitive practices, exclusive phone deals and whether or not carriers are unduly restricting the types of services other companies can offer on their networks.

The Wikimedia Foundation has officially launched a new mobile optimized version of Wikipedia. This new mobile version is designed for "fully featured" smartphones. The current version supports the Palm Pre, iPhone, Kindle and Android platforms. Initial languages supported include English and German with more planned.

Users on the Pre are automatically redirected to the mobile version, with a link at the bottom of the page to view the standard page or disable mobile redirection permanently. It also works with the Pre's universal search feature as well/ You can checkout some screenshots on the Pre after the break.

DataViz has now confirmed that it is working on bringing its Documents to Go software to Palm webOS. The company has now formally acknowledged that a full version of the application will be available on the Palm Pre later this year.

As Palm's document solution of choice for over 10 years, DataViz is happy to tell you that we'll be releasing Documents To Go for webOS later this year, allowing you to edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on your Pre!

DataViz also provides the on-device document viewer that currently ships on the Pre, hover this version will likely offer the usual two say synchronization and other features. The company currently has a email notifier up for interested people and is also conducting a survey among Pre users on its Facebook page.

Palm has filled a new 8-K statement with the SEC today. The statement details a change in Palm's marketing executives including the "termination" of the senior VP or Product Marketing, Brodie Keast and the announcement of his replacement.

According to the filling, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has reorganized the company's marketing organization to bring more focus to both product marketing and corporate branding, creating two new executive marketing roles that will report directly to him. Kathleen C. Mitic has accepted the product marketing role and, on Monday, June 29, 2009, joined Palm as its Senior Vice President, Product Marketing.

Thuliumware has updated its Virtual Piano software for Palm OS devices. Virtual Piano was designed as a music companion and features a full 72 key layout. It has a very authentic piano sound with digital samples from a Steinway Grand Piano in a real concert hall. The software allows you to jam on the go, record compositions and can capture and playback songs as well.

Virtual Piano v1.70 is available now for Palm OS devices running 5.2 and higher. It sells for $9.95 and comes with a free trial period. It can also run on the Palm Pre via Classic. You can catch a video demo of it in action after the break.

Resco Software has released a new "lite" version of its Explorer application. This Lite version includes the most popular features from its Explorer 2009 application and is optimized to run on the Palm Pre via Classic as well. The toolset includes a file manager, zipper, image and text file viewer, launcher, backup tool, ftp and network explorer in one product.

Resco Explorer Lite for Palm OS v5.03.1 is available now for $9.95. A free trial period is included and customers can take 20% off via the "CLASSIC" discount code through July 4th.

Rumor: A couple of new reports from the other side of the Atlantic seen to indicate that Palm may be getting ready to make some kind of announcement next week. The UK newspaper, the Guardian, is reporting that Palm will confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 to sell the Palm Pre smartphone in the UK. Brit gadget site T3 separately claims the official word could come as soon as next week as well.

This is the latest report to confirm earlier rumors from March and May that indicated that Telefónica and its brands O2 and Movistar would exclusively offer the Pre in Europe.

Two new emulators have debuted on hacked Palm Pre's. Homebrew programmer ZodTTD has successfully ported over a version of his Sony PlayStation emulator. This early version is more of a proof of concept at this point, as it requires a rooted Pre and a technical install process. The author says it runs well, even bettering a iPhone 3GS in performance. The keyboard is supported at this point, though it currently lacks sound and screen scaling.

Another developer has released a MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) emulator as well. This app emulates thousands of classic arcade games and more. Like the PS1 app, it is in its very early stages and requires some hacking to run. Video's of both in action are embedded after the break.

While Palm has acknowledged that a GSM/UMTS version of the Palm Pre would be released since CES, sightings of said device have been few and far between. The last time the illusive GSM Pre was seen was at the Mobile World Congress back in February. Now it has made a another appearance, strangely enough, on a Vietnamese mobile enthusiast forum.

A poster going by username dihuta has posted a series of high resolution shots of a GSM Pre on the Tinhte forum. The pictures show, in great detail, a GSM sporting Pre running on "VN Mobifone" along with a number of shots of the back cover and SIM card tray. There is also a seven minute YouTube video clip as well, which is embedded after the break.