
Cerience Corporation announced the availability of RepliGo PDF Mobilizer, allowing companies to deploy their entire library of PDF documentation to Palm OS 5, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone, Sony Ericsson UIQ and Nokia Series 60 devices.

ASUS has announced that the MyPal A730 will debut in Taiwan, its home country, in September. Justin O’Dea of PROPortable, the largest retailer of ASUS handhelds in the U.S., currently expects a version of the A730 with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to be released in the US in early- to mid-September.

A grassroots movement of Mac users are petitioning PalmSource to continue native Mac support with future releases.

Expanding their successful Tycoon line to the Pocket PC platform, LDW Software has made Plant Tycoon available for Pocket PCs. In this game, you run a virtual plant nursery and cross-pollinate the plants you grow to create ever more expensive and exotic plants, all in the search for four “magical” plants.

Cirond Corporation announced a comprehensive strategy to deal with the significant threat to network security posed by the implementation of wireless laptop computers and other wireless devices. The combination of AirSafe and AirPatrol Enterprise represents the first complete solution to the security threat posed by wireless technology that both eliminates the problem at source, while also providing comprehensive alerting and monitoring capabilities that both detect and locate unauthorized wireless equipment. Although I received a combined release for both products, they’re listed separately on Cirond’s press page, so I’m sending you there instead of directly to the release.

Astraware announced the release of their first conversion of a Sandlot Games title, Tradewinds for Pocket PC and Palm handhelds. The aim of Tradewinds is to become famously rich, whether by careful trading, by sending scurvy pirate dogs to the bottom of the sea, or maybe a mix of both.

VisuAide unveiled Maestro, the first mainstream handheld PC accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Maestro is an HP iPAQ Pocket PC made accessible by VisuAide using text-to-speech technology and a tactile keyboard membrane over the PDA touch screen.

The Game Initiative, a producer of conferences and events for the computer and video game industry, is holding a conference, aptly titled the Mobile Game Conference, devoted to the mobile gaming market. The Mobile Game Conference will coincide with its established Austin Game Conference, scheduled for September 9-10 in Austin, Texas.

Five memory card formats were subjected to a range of tests, including being boiled, trampled, washed, and dunked in coffee or cola. Surprisingly, all the cards survived these tests.

A San Diego company has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. D Squared agreed not to send pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many Windows operating systems; such ads do not require an open Web browser to display.