Best Software has released SalesLogix for Pocket PC, a mobile version of the company’s SalesLogix 6.2 customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Designed to give mobile workforces access to their desktop CRM data, SalesLogix for Pocket PC enables users to manage their accounts, contacts, opportunity data, and service tickets.

After winding its way across the Internet, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is headed to retail shelves. Over the next month, Microsoft hopes to swap out the bulk of all boxed copies worldwide. Retailers can, through their distributor, exchange their existing Windows XP boxes for the update.

T-Mobile USA announced it is adding the 802.1x security standard throughout its hot-spot network. The standard is incorporated in its Connection Manager software, which is needed to securely connect to its hot spots.

Planon System Solutions, a provider of scanning hardware and software, announced that Guinness World Records has certified its DocuPen as the lightest A4 document scanner in the World and will feature it in the 2005 edition. Planon’s DocuPen R700 is the World’s smallest fully portable, full-page scanner that is the size of a pen and weighs just 1.75 ounces and is only 8.5 inches long. While traditional pen scanners only read individual lines of text and are unable to scan graphics, the DocuPen scans an entire page of text and graphics in just four seconds and stores up to 100 pages in its 2 megabytes of flash memory.

PhatWare Corporation announced the full release of PhatPad 2.0, the latest version of its award-winning note-taking application for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs. Leading the improvements to PhatPad 2.0 is a companion desktop PC application that allows all of PhatPad’s valuable features to be accessed from the user’s personal computer. PhatPad turns any Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC into the ultimate notepad. With the PDA stylus, users can draw pictures, jot text notes, or combine text, drawings, and pictures to increase their personal and/or professional productivity.

Maptech’s new Outdoor Navigator gives you a powerful PDA Outdoor Atlas. Outdoor Navigator offers a greater level of safety to explore new places with confidence and the peace of mind that you have with instant access to over 60,000 topographic maps and nautical charts for the continental USA.

With the introduction of the new Tungsten T5, some of the prices in palmOne’s current handheld lineup have been reduced. Both the T3 and the Zire 72 can now be found for $50 less.

Sony’s PSP is at “high risk” of a substantial delay — into next year for Japan, and perhaps all the way to November 2005 for the US market. That’s the word from two separate memos sent on consecutive business days from noted industry analysts.

palmOne announced that it has licensed Microsoft’s Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol to enable the delivery of secure, wireless and direct synchronization between Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, part of Windows Server System, and future Treo smartphones. palmOne intends to use the technology to extend the company’s device support for Microsoft Exchange Server by adding capability for wireless server-based synchronization.

iAnywhere Solutions announced that it is working with Sony Ericsson to provide AvantGo mobile content to users of the new Symbian-based P910 smartphone. Sony Ericsson smartphone users can now quickly and easily synchronize hundreds of mobile websites containing news, weather, sports, and entertainment, including content from many of the world’s top media brands, using either their desktop computer or a wireless internet connection.