Following the launch of the eagerly anticipated Tungsten T3, Proporta announces that their aluminium case is almost complete. They are currently offering a Neoprene while you wait offer; customers who preorder the T3 aluminium case now will receive a free protective neoprene case to keep their handheld safe until the aluminium case arrives.

Tame Game has released a new puzzle game for Palm OS with original rules – Tame Game. Trivalon. This time all you have to do is to form sequences of three similar elements in a tube dropping them from both sides of it. In spite of simple rules you can achieve excellent results only with a good long-term strategy.

Audible and Apple announced that audiobooks and other spoken word programs are now available for download exclusively from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Through iTunes, Mac and Windows customers can preview and download audio editions of best-selling books, magazines, radio programs and original shows, manage audio content alongside their music collection, and take their entire audio library on their iPod digital music player.

The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA), announced the creation of the CATA Toronto Technology Community (CTTC), a new organization combining the members of the former SMART Toronto Technology Alliance (STTA) and CATA’s established Toronto membership base. The new organization is dedicated to working with other groups to help the growth of Toronto’s technology community, through seminars, networking, provincial and federal government advocacy, and by plugging Toronto into CATA’s national business growth grid.

EZQuest is now bundling Dantz Retrospect Express backup and restore software with all of its external FireWire and USB 2.0 drives. These include EZQuest’s Cobra+ and Cobra Slim hard drives, and Boa and Boa Slim CD-RW and DVD-RW drives.

SMC Networks announced that it has enhanced its Gigabit backbone switch, the TigerSwitch 10/100/1000 Managed Switch (SMC8624T). The SMC8624T is available immediately. The new SMC8624T switch has 24 fixed 10/100/1000 ports, four of which can be upgraded with optional mini GBIC expansion slots for fiber connections.

Birdstep Technology announced that Harman International Industries has chosen the Birdstep RDM Mobile real-time embedded database management system to incorporate into its telematics products. Harman’s in-car radio navigation systems provide telematics, navigation, telephone, TV, DVD, games, superb audio and Internet access. Birdstep’s RDM Mobile database provides developers of mobile applications an ultra small footprint, optimized for minimum runtime memory usage.

SMC Networks announced the newest member of its EZ Connect family of wireless networking products: the SMC2870W 2.4GHz 54Mbps Wireless Multi-Mode Device. The SMC2870W 802.11g adapter installs and communicates without drivers. It can be configured to serve as a wireless access point, to provide network access to other wireless 802.11g and 802.11b devices; as a repeater, through its support for Wireless Distribution System (WDS), to extend the range of a wireless 2.4GHz network using either a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configuration. The SMC2870W will be available in November.

Metro One Telecommunications announced the immediate availability of its new Voice Email capability as an integral part of its Infone service. This feature allows callers to easily record a message that can be sent to any email address as an audio file. To use the feature, a caller identifies the intended recipient or recipient’s email address, and subject line for the Infone operator. When coupled with My Infone, available email addresses are retrieved automatically from the subscriber’s Infone-synchronized personal database, such as Microsoft Outlook, Palm, or Lotus Notes. The caller records a message that is sent immediately to the recipient as email.

Kevin Werbach’s Werblog takes a look at the Treo 600. Werbach says that the Treo 600 is the best smartphone on the market today. It’s an excellent phone, a good PDA, a serviceable wireless email and Web device, a decent cameraphone, and with the expansion slot, your choice of an MP3 player, a WiFi/Bluetooth node, or a location-aware GPS device.