PhatWare announced the release of PhatNotes 5.0, the next generation of the company’s notes organizer software for Microsoft Windows based desktop computers and Windows Mobile smartphones. PhatNotes allows users to create notes and organize them by type, subject, creation, and modification date. The software provides powerful text search with regular expression support, document security, and email capabilities.

Unlike previous versions of PhatNotes, the new version will not include multiple editions of the software. Instead, there will be only one edition of PhatNotes that supports both Standard (non-touch screen) and Professional (touch screen) devices and includes the desktop software and the synchronization module for ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows Vista.

In May, analysts asked the question, “Who’s going to buy the Palm Foleo?” Now, they know: no one.

Palm has decided to cancel its Foleo mini-notebook, according to a note chief executive Ed Colligan posted to the company’s blog. The company will instead focus upon the “Foleo II,” recording a one-time charge of about $10 million to cancel the first-generation product.

PhoneWeaver is a phone management application designed to help control your phone state parameters using profiles in the most intuitive way. Using profiles you can link between your phone state and your agenda, time of day and much more. Using PhoneWeaver you can define smart profiles that are activated manually or automatically based on the time, appointments or phone state. Each smart profile can fully control the state of your phone radio, Wi-Fi, push mail, Bluetooth, ringer, vibrate state and much more. PhoneWeaver also adds a clean and straightforward plugin to your Today screen, allowing you to view and control the currently active profile.

ShSh software has updated their 4cast Treo weather program. 4cast downloads weather information from the Internet and displays it in a nice Palm-native interface optimized for the Treo smartphone. It supports 5-day forecasts for multiple cities, weather maps and alerts. The new version supports new skins and image backgrounds, a new 5 day temperature trend graph view and includes a new DateBk6 plugin. It can also be used as a plugin for 2day and ZLauncher.

SanDisk has expanded its solid-state drive (SSD) product line with a module a quarter the size of 1.8-inch hard drives. The flash-based uSSD 5000 is designed to be embedded on the motherboards of low-cost PCs, such as Intel’s Classmate PC, or other consumer devices.

The uSSD 5000 weighs less than two ounces, and is available in two slightly different form-factors: standard, and low profile. Both are approximately 1.5-inches long, and just over an inch wide. However, the standard profile is 0.42 inches (10.6 mm) thick, whereas the low-profile unit is 0.26 inches (6.6 mm) thick.

Toshiba expanded its line of SD High Capacity cards with three new cards, including the first 32GB memory card in this high density. Alongside the 32GB SDHC card, Toshiba also announces a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide from October, and the 32GB SDHC card and 8GB microSDHC card will be launched worldwide in January next year.

BoxWave has released their Rubberized Slim Case for the Blackberry 8800 and Curve, as well an an Armor Case for the Curve.

The iPhone lacks encryption, robust central management capabilities and the ability to integrate with localized infrastructure making it an unlikely choice for most businesses, according to analysts at Midvale, Utah-based research firm, the Burton Group.

In an online panel discussion, the analysts said the device is suitable for consumers to access email, browse the Web and access Web-based, Ajax-enabled applications. But cheaper devices that mimic many of the iPhone’s features may win out in the enterprise marketplace of the future.

This release updates time zone registry data for New Zealand and Western Australia in addition to US, Canada, and Mexico DST related issues in 2007.

Palm has apparently decided to mothball their new Foleo mobile companion. In a posting on the Palm Blog, CEO Ed Colligan stated: “I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering out next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one.”