Natara Software has released an update for its DayNotez software for Palm OS. DayNotez is a journaling application that is tailored to organize records of events and thoughts on a daily basis. It supports multiple entries per day with text, photos and voice memo support. It has a number of organizational and tracking features as well as four different views for displaying your notes. This update incorporates a number of minor bugfixes and adds better support for DateBk6.

DayNotez v3.0.5 is available now for all Palm OS 5 and higher devices. It sells for $19.95 and includes a free trial period. Nature also offers a DayNotez Desktop Edition which includes a Windows journal application and syncing conduit.

Originally rumored to be on sale in late January, then pushed back to Feb. 15th, now word comes in that the Sprint Treo Pro launch has been delayed yet again for unknown reasons. The Boy Genius Report has just posted a recent internal Sprint memo that states the CDMA Treo Pro "will not launch on 2/15/09 as previously communicated." (View the full memo after the break.)

Sprint's version of the Windows Mobile powered Treo Pro has been in the rumor mill for some time now. The device has already received FCC approval, official specs and a number of rounds of spy photos have been posted about and many stores have already received some product, so the latest holdup is quite curious. Palm's official website has even been recently updated with a "coming soon on Sprint" notice.

One of the most interesting – and most quickly glossed-over - parts of Palm's CES presentation was Ed Colligan's announcement of multiple third-party software partners on the new webOS. As any regular Palm user can tell you, it's third-party applications that truly seal the deal for smartphones and whilst a robust first-party software package is essential, third-party apps can make the difference between a platform earning your lifelong loyalty or being abandoned for a younger, sexier rival. With this in mind and in the absence of fresh news from Palm, it's time to take a closer look at these partners and how they might integrate with the webOS. So put on your Educated Guesswork caps and fire up the Speculation Engines as we take a closer look at Palm's partners in crime...

Palm has hired a developer community manager for the upcoming WebOS Mojo SDK. The news comes from the hiree himself, Chuq Von Rospach, in an announcement on his personal blog.

Like many of Palm's recent hires Mr. Von Rospach is an ex-Apple employee. In a article on VentureBeat, he writes about the Apple/Palm connection. He also recently wrote an interesting retrospective on his 18 years at Apple for the Guardian.

Astraware has released a new word game for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. Bubble Shuffle follows on from Bubble Babble in the 'Bubble' word game series and features the ever-friendly, fishy host, Wordsworth Smartygills.

Bubble Shuffle is a simple undersea-themed word-building game that challenges players to create words from a given set of bubble letters. The game begins with 4 letters to work from and increases over multiple levels to 7 letters. To progress from level to level players must create at least one word from all of the letters. Players can shuffle the bubbles as many times as they want, to help them find more words.

Palm's Board of Directors made the appointment of Rajiv Dutta official earlier this week as detailed by Palm's latest 8-K filing (.pdf link). As covered previously, Donna Dubinsky's resignation is now official and Mr. Dutta will take her place effective Feb 2, 2009.

Mr. Dutta was designated for nomination by Elevation, pursuant to the recent $100 million equity deal, which also granted Elevation the right to appoint an additional director. Mr. Dutta will serve as a Preferred Director and was also appointed to the Board's Audio Committee. Rajiv Dutta retired as the President of eBay Marketplaces and Executive Vice President of eBay Inc. in October 2008 and as a member of the board of directors of eBay, Inc. in July 2008.

Numerous unofficial Palm Pre "DevCamps" are already being planned in various cities around the world. A not-for-profit group called preDevCamp is currently organizing and helping to coordinate developer gatherings for developing for the Pre and webOS, shortly after its release. The group says there are already over 60 events planned in cities around the world.

The camps will be tentatively held a week after the official Pre launch. Attendees will include mobile developers, web developers, UI designers, and testers and is basically open to anyone interested. Attendees can work solo or in groups and are also encouraged to team up on developing stuff for the Pre.

Palm, Inc. today announced that Palm's Chief Executive Officer Edward T. Colligan is scheduled to present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology, Telecom & Internet Conference 2009 in San Francisco on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 at 9:10 a.m. Pacific Time.

There will be a live webcast made available, which can be found here.

Resco Software has updated its Palm OS application bundle for 2009. The Resco Suite combines six of their best selling software titles in a heavily discounted combo. The package includes five highly recommended applications - Explorer, Viewer, Backup, IDGuard and Neeews as well as its Sudoku game as an added bonus.

Resco Suite v2.11 for Palm OS is available now with a free trial. The full bundle is being sold for $59.95. Purchased individually, the total cost would be around $125, representing a discount of over 50%.

NS Basic Corporation has released version 7.0 of its NS Basic/Palm development toolkit. The new release features an improved user interface for applications, a pdf version of a popular book on NS Basic/Palm, new tutorials, samples, technotes and more. NS Basic is a Visual Basic like development kit that provides Palm OS developers an alternative to the usual C/C++ toolchain.

The product includes an IDE (Interactive Development Environment) with a graphic design screen, powerful code editor, compiler and installer generator. It is a complete development environment with a total download of about 14 megs. No additional SDKs are needed.

The Boy Genius Report has gotten their hands on a lengthy list of Sprint device introductions and EOL dates that is certainly chock-full of Palm-related information.

To kick things off, the "unofficially official" CDMA version of the Palm Treo Pro now has a solid release date of February 15th, despite being currently available in some Best Buy retail stores already. With the arrival of the CDMA version of the Treo Pro, the worst-kept secret in recent Palm and Sprint history (see our December report) appears to be nearing its conclusion. The Treo 800w, having been released only in July 2008, is slated to be EOL'd this April, easily on pace to be the shortest-lived Palm device to date.