BoxWave announced the miniSync for the Pocket LOOX 720. miniSync is a replacement cradle as it’s a retractable cable that will simultaneously charge and synchronize your Pocket LOOX 720. It also supports USB 2.0 data transfers.

MAGIX announced the new MAGIX Photostory on CD & DVD 4. MAGIX Photostory on CD & DVD 4 gets more out of digital camera, mobile phone, video, and film camera snapshots. By automatically fixing photos and adding 3D transitions, fades, effects and sounds, the software turns your photo collection into multimedia slideshows.

SimpleTech announced a strategic partnership with Napster to introduce Napster-branded Flash memory and hard disk drive storage products. The licensed products include external storage, USB Flash drives, and Flash cards, and provide storage expansion, back-up and portability for valuable music files.

Polaris Wireless announced the grant of their eighth patent by the U.S. Patent Office for Polaris’ wireless emergency and location-based services technology. In addition to cellular and PCS networks, the Polaris location technology can be shown to provide accurate location in WiFi and WiMax wireless networks.

SplashBlog lets you publish photos from your Treo to an online photo album (photoblog) to share with others. SplashBlog includes software for your Treo and a free online photoblog account at splashblog.com. Just install the software on your Treo, create your free splashblog.com account and start photoblogging.

Greenlight Wireless announced that Skweezer has been nominated in the Personal Software: Mobile Web Content Utility category of the 2005 Mobile Star Awards hosted by MobileVillage. Skweezer is a free Web portal and browsing service that optimizes Web pages, searches, and email for use on PDAs and cell phones.

MobiMate announced the release of two new products – WorldMate Expense for Windows Mobile and version 3.0 of WorldMate Desktop Companion for Windows desktop PCs. Both products feature travel expense management and reporting.

Palm announced that agents of Primerica Financial Services are using 4,000 Palm handhelds and smartphones to complete insurance applications in the comfort of a client’s own home. Primerica developed its own customized Palm OS application — called TurboApps — to run on a variety of Palm devices, including the latest Palm Tungsten handhelds and Palm Treo smartphones.

PhatWare Corporation announces the immediate availability of CalliGrapher 8.0. The most notable new features of the handwriting recognition software are support for Windows Mobile 5.0, a soft input panel called Write Pad and the Statistical Analyzer.

Resco announced the new release of one of its applications – Resco Explorer 2005. One improvement in Version 5.20 is the new Today plug-in, which can display the remaining battery life and disk space.