Palm will be showcasing Good Technology’s GoodLink email solution on the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device Treo 650 to more than 9,000 legal professionals at LegalTech, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, at the Hilton New York hotel located in midtown Manhattan. Palm continues to make strides in the legal industry by delivering solutions that increase the productivity of attorneys and the efficiency of the entire law firm. Legal professionals are always on the go, traveling to client meetings, waiting in court and completing investigations, and need a mobile solution that allows them to stay connected, responsive and productive.

Research In Motion and T-Mobile Germany have introduced the BlackBerry 8700g, further enhancing T-Mobile’s portfolio of BlackBerry devices in the German market. The BlackBerry 8700g is expected to be available from T-Mobile Germany beginning in early February.

Research In Motion provided an update following a ruling in the Research In Motion UK Limited versus InPro Licensing litigation in the Federal Patent Court in Munich, Germany. InPro, a patent holding firm based in Luxembourg, had previously asserted a patent in Germany, alleging infringement with respect to certain BlackBerry products. RIM subsequently filed a nullity action in the Nullity Patent Court seeking a declaration that the InPro patent is invalid. The Nullity Patent Court has now ruled in favor of RIM by deciding that all patent claims in InPro’s German-designated European Patent are invalid.

Research In Motion and Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile telecommunications operator, announced the launch of the BlackBerry wireless platform in Sri Lanka. Dialog Telekom is now offering BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry 7100g and the BlackBerry 7290 to mobile professionals in Sri Lanka for the first time.

Google will face off against the United States government in a federal court on Feb. 22 over whether the Department of Justice can force the search giant to turn over records from its database. The conflict stems from a subpoena demanding information on searches, which Google refused to comply with, citing privacy concerns. The government is attempting to gather data to support a child protection law that was struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. Under that law, the government could punish pornography sites that made content easily accessible to minors. However, Google contends that supplying the information would violate the privacy of its users, as well as divulge trade secrets that could help its competitors.

Retailer Best Buy said that it will electronically process rebates for notebook PCs and PC accessories, eliminating the mail-in rebate. The two-year process, began in April 2005, is already in place with some desktop PCs. Since the beginning of 2006, the policy has been categorically extended to all notebook computers sold by Best Buy, and will be extended to computer accessories in early February. For now, however, the electronic rebate program for laptops will apply just to rebates Best Buy itself offers, and not third-party suppliers.

HP has released a ROM update for the iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger series. The update fixes an issue where an incorrect Cellular Service Provider Name was displayed after inserting a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) from a different Service Provider. It also fixes an issue where the connecting ring tone was louder when using a headset to place an outgoing call.

Two developers were sentenced to 10 months for leaking technology secrets such as handset source files of LG to Pantech. The court said that the technologies were evidently the trade secrets of LG and they could be thought to have illegal intentions when they stored the information in the computers of Pantech, breaching the rule of LG, on which the developers agreed, preventing them from leaking the trade secret and getting job in LG’s competitors.

News is surfacing that in Sony’s Q305 fiscal reports they have intentions and supposedly already ceased developing AIBO and QRIO.

When former Intel engineer Nick Bhavsar’s fledgling Web company began selling vinyl laptop covers with the Texas Longhorns logo and orders skyrocketed, Bhavsar realized he’d tapped into the growing demand for personalized laptop designs that are quickly vaulting the notebook PC out of its Model-T era. Apple Computer, Sony, Acer, Alienware, Voodoo PC and others have introduced more stylish designs, but the standard products available from the largest Windows PC vendors tend to come in either black or gray. That philosophy is starting to change. A few computer companies and several accessory makers and custom specialists have figured out that, like ’70s-era custom vans and dot-com-era BMWs, custom-look laptops can be seen as potent style statements.