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Entries for October, 2006

Palm to Bring 20 Carriers Online with New Treo Smartphone

Expands Geographically and Demographically
Fourth Smartphone of 2006 Announced; Global Distribution Planned for All Four
NEW YORK, Oct 12, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced that it expects to bring online 20 carriers for its fourth new smartphone platform announced this calendar year. The four platforms enable a significant expansion of Palm’s customer base [...]

Palm Unveils New Slim, Sleek Treo Smartphone

U.S. Palm Retail and Online Stores to Offer Treo 680 Smartphone in Hip Shades of Red, Orange, White and Silver
NEW YORK, Oct 12, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) [...]

Palm Freeware of the Day

FreeContacts, contact manager for personal or work use. Suite of the 3 integrated programs in only one interface with Notations, Reminders and Contacts.
FreeContacts v1.0

Have your cake and play it too

Cake Mania released for Palm OS(R) handhelds.
THE MIDLANDS, UK - October 11th, 2006 - Astraware and Sandlot Games are excited to announce the release of Cake Mania for Palm OS(R) handhelds.
Based on the best-selling PC game by leading casual game publisher and developer, Sandlot Games, Cake Mania is a fun, fast-paced culinary challenge. Help Jill [...]

First Availability of Windows Mobile-Based Treo Smartphone in Latin America

Treo 700wx Smartphone Now Available on the Iusacell Network in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Oct 11, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 700wx smartphone on the Iusacell Network in Mexico, marking the first availability of a Windows Mobile 5.0-based Treo smartphone in the Latin American market.
The Treo 700wx combines a [...]

Palm Freeware of the Day

Speech and Debate Timekeeper is a debate timer for various debate formats and individual events.
It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, Impromptu, Extemporaneous, and prepared speech events.
It also tracks prep times. It gives visual and/or vocal time signals at user defined intervals.
Speech and Debate [...]

Palm Promotes Mobile Computing on College Campuses

Program Targeted at Three Million Students at 114 Campuses Nationwide

DALLAS, Oct 09, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) is giving 228 of its new Palm(R) Treo(TM) 700wx smartphones running Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 software to students participating in the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) program.
Students will use the Treo 700wx, Sprint’s first Windows [...]

Palm Freeware of the Day

iSecur is a Personal Information Manager which lets you store secrets safely.
iSecur is the successor of Secure It and provides stronger encryption (SHA256 and AES), icons, intelligent templates and more.
iSecur

YourCall: New Treo Utility from Iambic

YourCall is a utility tool that offers a variety of useful follow-up actions you can take after you hang up. It allows you to schedule meetings, tasks, memos, send SMSs, emails, or call back with a touch of a button.
YourCall is geared towards saving you time and getting things done quickly. It simplifies the steps [...]

RIM boss to purchase Pittsburgh Penguins

Today, the 45-year old hockey fanatic and co-chief executive officer of Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion Ltd. is about to fulfill another puck-fuelled dream, only this one will cost him substantially more: as much as $175-million (U.S.)
Mr. Balsillie is expected to announce this afternoon that he is acquiring the Pittsburgh Penguins from a consortium of [...]