Radical-Tek.com has launched a wireless nightlife/gambling travel directory service. Subscribers can access listings for bars, strip clubs, world-class casinos, racecourses, dog tracks, motor speedways, and other entertainment and services from any wml-compatible WAP mobile communications device. As a bonus, international reference dictionaries for street slang terms, gambling slangs; and a portal to wireless race handicapping and sportsbetting are also included.

A Canadian company, 01 Communique Laboratory Inc., has some software for the PC called I’m InTouch. And when it’s installed on your office PC, you can access it from anywhere in the world where you can fire up a Web browser.This review by the AP says that when in use, all the applications, from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office and some homebrew software were there and worked exactly as though the writerr was at AP headquarters.

Textware Solutions is pleased to announce that the Fitaly Keyboard for the palmOne Tungsten T3 handheld is now available. This version, called FitalyVirtual, has been designed specifically for use in the T3 virtual input area. The FitalyVirtual Keyboard is an ergonomic replacement for the standard QWERTY on-screen keyboard.

The Gametrac Group confirmed that the first working demonstration of its mobile entertainment device, Gametrac, is to be unveiled on the Microsoft stand at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from the 8th to 11th January 2004. Gametrac offers pocket-sized, high quality gaming using Bluetooth 2 and GPRS for multi-player gaming. Additional in-built entertainment functions include a capability to play movies, MP3 player, SMS and MMS messaging facilities and a high-resolution digital camera.

PalmSource and Research In Motion made public their plans to collaborate on software that will allow handhelds based on the Palm operating system to use RIM’s BlackBerry wireless service. The companies said in a statement that they plan to create an email application for Palm OS that will arrive in the latter half of 2004.

Sony said that it had developed the world’s first running robot. According to ZDNet, Qrio, which until recently had been known as Sony’s SDR robot entertaining crowds with fluid and funky dance motions, can now trot at a speed of 15 yards per minute.

palmOne reported revenue of $271.2 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2004, ended Nov. 28, up 5 percent from the $257.9 million reported during the second quarter a year ago. These results include effects of the Oct. 28 spin-off of PalmSource and the Oct. 29 acquisition of Handspring. Accordingly, palmOne results have two months of PalmSource results included in discontinued operations and one month of Handspring results included in income from continuing operations.

PocketMind and Sandlot Games released Pocket PC version of the desktop PC game Slyder. The goal of the game is to help maneuver a ball named Slyder through a series of mazes using stylus or Pocket PC hardware keys. Slyder will slide until he hits a wall, so it is up to you to keep him from sliding off the map, down a pit, or into unfriendly characters.

Orsus Solutions and AirPrism announced an OEM partnership. As part of the partnership, the Software Deployment Module of the AirPrism Mobility Management Suite will be included in the recently announced Orsus Mobile Framework version 5.2 as a means of addressing the challenge of distributing and installing software updates, patches and content to remote workers a top concern of mobile enterprises.

Symbian OS developers now have a software analysis tool suite with the release of Metrowerks’ CodeTEST Software Analysis Tools for Symbian OS. The suite offers accurate, detailed measurement analysis of applications running on Symbian OS development systems, including performance profiling, software trace, memory analysis and code coverage capabilities.