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Entries for November, 2006

How To Avoid BlackBerry Thumb

Repetitive strain injury can be caused by overuse of the thumbs to type messages on the popular Blackberry e-mail device or any other handheld computer with a similar keyboard.

How To Avoid Blackberry Thumb’ - News by InformationWeek

Sherwin-Willimas Sales Force to use Palm Treo Smartphones

Sherwin-Williams Deploys Its First Mobile-computing Solution with 2,000 Palm Treo Smartphones Running Customized Customer Relationship Management Application
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 14, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sherwin-Williams — a global leader in manufacturing, distribution and sales of coatings and related products — deployed Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphones to its entire sales force in the United States, Caribbean and [...]

Top 12 BlackBerry Tips

Smart Device Central has compiled a list of keyboard shortcuts for the Blackberry 8700. Many of these tips will work with other BB models, as well.
Navigate quickly around calendar views by pressing D for Day, W for Week, M for Month, and A for Agenda. For this to work, you’ll need to set Enable [...]

Berry411 Version 3.5 Released

Berry411, one of the most useful —and free— programs for the Blackberry has been upgraded. New features in this release:
* The “Pick from recent addresses” feature allows you to easily manage more than three addresses.* The City/State field now accepts zip codes as well.* The phone numbers of items you click on are now [...]

New grammar game for Palm OS

Leading Step™ Introduces Grammar Games: Constructor™, an Educational Game for Palm OS Handhelds, Aimed at Improving Students’ Grammar Skills
DALLAS – November 8, 2006 – A constant struggle for parents and educators is finding innovative ways to improve grammar skills among K-12 students. Now, with the release of Constructor, the first product in the Grammar Games [...]

Palm Treo Smartphone Cast in ”A Good Year”

Top Director Chooses Treo Smartphone as Technology Star for Twentieth Century Fox Film
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 09, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphone is featured as the technology star in the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox film “A Good Year,” starring Russell Crowe, directed by Ridley Scott. The Treo smartphone [...]

Palm Responds to NTP Lawsuit

Palm Responds to Unwarranted Lawsuit Over Dubious Patents
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 06, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today issued the following statement in response to a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by patent-holding company NTP Inc.
The NTP lawsuit claims that certain Palm products infringe seven NTP patents. All seven of the patents asserted are [...]

tejpWriter 3.40 Released

This release is featuring strong encryption of text files and a true HTML 4.01 export of tW Formatted documents. Apart from that, it’s a button release. All Editor buttons are now working and three of the Viewer buttons. Many bug fixes and an improved memory handling aiming to make it less likely to crash.
Version 3.40

HTML [...]

Palm Treo 750v in Launched Hong Kong

HONG KONG, Nov 03, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SmarTone-Vodafone, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and Microsoft have launched the new Palm(R) Treo(TM) 750v from Vodafone, running on Windows Mobile(R) 5.0, in the Hong Kong market.
“We are pleased to partner with Palm and Microsoft, two industry leaders, in launching the Treo 750v,” said Douglas Li, chief executive [...]

Blackberry Themes Collection

Themes (999 total)
These themes are only for Blackberries running OS 4.1 or later, and will not work on other devices. You need the Plazmic Theme Reader before you can use any of these themes. OTA (over the air) downloads are found (here). All other downloads unless (OTA) are zip files which contain the theme and [...]