The AC adapter for Car Chargers, from Boxwave, allows you to use your handheld’s car charger with any standard wall outlet. Simply plug this adapter into the wall and connect your car charger into this adapter’s cigarette lighter socket, and you’re ready to charge your handheld.

palmOne has launched the Treo 650 smartphone in Venezuela with Digitel TIM, making it the first all-in-one, quad-band smartphone designed to operate with Digitel’s EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) network. The Treo 650 smartphone is currently available at Spazio Digitel TIM’s sales centers throughout Venezuela.

For over five years, two of the supposedly killer wireless technologies–Bluetooth and Wi-Fi–have been marching to the beats of their own drummers. Is it time to reconsider whether the market is best served with two wireless technologies where there could be one? When it comes to Bluetooth, and other wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Michael Foley and David Reed are two men who do not see eye-to-eye on the past, the present, or the future.

A growing number of cities plan to offer wireless Internet access as a municipal service, but as those plans spread, a backlash appears to be forming. More than 50 U.S. cities have set up or plan to install wireless broadband networks, Minneapolis is the latest to join the list. Some state lawmakers look to ban cities from going into the wireless business, critics say city wireless networks waste tax money. The goal of city networks–low-cost broadband Internet access for all–is noble, but business, not cities, should meet that goal, they say.

C-guys and TradeWind Technologies announced they are teaming to offer the world’s first SDIO RFID reader for Pocket PC. TradeWind will use CG-100 SDIO technology by C-guys to develop the solution. The product will be sold and branded under the C-guys’ name. The TradeWind patent pending SDIO RFID card enables many handheld devices to read or write standard and proprietary RFID 13.56Mhz tags and labels. The reader fits into any standard SD/SDIO slot and extends outside the slot for a small external footprint of 28mm x 28mm. The reader also has a low 11mm profile and a read range of 7cm.

T-Mobile USA has introduced Personal Coverage Check, an interactive map available online and in stores that shows signal strength down to individual streets and intersections. T-Mobile is the only national carrier to reveal its network capabilities in detail. Other companies give only a general idea of which cities and highways their networks encompass. While the map has helped sway some people that they will be satisfied with T-Mobile, it has steered some people away from the provider in areas where coverage is weak.

Traditional media such as newspapers and radios are casting an increasingly covetous eye over the growing number of Internet blogs, hoping to cash in on a slice of the action. With daily newspaper circulation in decline, the highly critical and at-times irreverent world of the personal online journal with its potential to attract millions of readers is looking more and more attractive. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch even warned the American Society of Newspaper Editors last month that the owners of traditional media cannot afford to be complacent.

Air2Web has launched its 2IM 2.0 product, the first secure IM solution to provide employees with simultaneous mobile access to the top enterprise and public IM services from the most popular wireless handsets. 2IM supports Sametime, Jabber, and Microsoft LCS from RIMs, Treos, Windows Mobile-based devices, J2ME phones, and very shortly BREW phones.

LandWare has launched Pocket Quicken 2.5, the latest in their line of software finance managers that have been created for over a half dozen handheld platforms. This completely re-written version of the easy to use personal money management application runs on Palm-powered handhelds such as the T5 and smartphones including the Treo. Enhancements and features to this new version of Pocket Quicken include the ability to optionally protect the financial information by requiring a PIN code, an enhanced calculator that fills in the payment or deposit amount based on the calculation result, full support for palmOne’s Graffiti 2 engine provides customers with Tungsten and Zire handhelds with improved handwriting recognition.

Samsung and Microsoft said they will contribute products worth $2 million to schools through Samsung’s second annual Hope For Education essay contest. The contest is open to students, teachers and parents. Entrants need to submit a 100-word essay on “how will the growing use of technology in the classroom benefit students in the future?” Prizes, including mobile phones from Samsung, and educational and entertainment software from Microsoft, will be awarded to schools submitting essays, and each winning essay writer will receive a Samsung digital audio player. This year’s essay contest will run from April 28 to July 1.