Beginning today, Sprint will offer customers the opportunity to save $300 on the purchase of a Treo 300 with service activation. Customers who buy a Treo 300 for $399 will receive a $300 credit on their first bill when they sign up for a two-year service contract with Sprint. The promotion applies specifically to the Treo 300 by Handspring and will run through October 10, 2003.

Palm and Handspring announced that the waiting period required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Anti-Trust Improvements Act for Palm’s proposed acquisition of Handspring has expired. The acquisition is expected to close in the fall, subject to certain conditions, including approval from both companies’ stockholders.

SplashData announced the launch of SplashPhoto 4.0 for Palm Powered handhelds. The new version includes a host of new features and functionality to view, manage and share pictures on handhelds.

TealPoint Software’s TealDoc recently won the People’s Choice Best PDA Software award at the 2003 Shareware Industry Awards. The Shareware Industry Awards were presented on July 19, 2003 at the thirteenth annual Shareware Industry Conference.

Research In Motion brought the BlackBerry 7230 device to the U.S. in partnership with T-Mobile USA. The BlackBerry 7230 lets users access email along with the Internet and voice networks around the world. It is now available in the U.S. for $399.99. Computerworld reports that T-Mobile will charge $29.99 per month for unlimited email and other mobile content, while the voice service fee is separate.

Sprint PCS announced a content delivery deal with RealNetworks. Under the RealNetworks deal, Sprint wireless users will be able to access news, stock market performance, sports highlights, weather forecasts and movie reviews via the multimedia software maker’s RealOne player on handsets equipped with Sprint’s PCS Vision service. The multimedia service will be available to Sprint PCS customers for $4.95 per month and will include four hours of new content each day.

CBC News reports that researchers testing the theory of six degrees of separation found that strangers are about six clicks away on the Web.

A federal judge has ordered Research in Motion to stop selling its BlackBerry wireless email units because of patent violations, but he stayed the decision while the company pursues an appeal. The Mercury News says that the ruling by U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer came after a jury’s finding last year that the BlackBerry infringes on patents held by NTP of Arlington, Va. Spencer ordered RIM to pay $53.7 million in damages.

Brain and Mind Magazine has this interesting article about how the Internet impacted has the medical and scientific community. For example, when a group of scientists decides to write a joint research paper, all of its members may contribute their share to the piece of work regardless of their location in the world. They are able to write simultaneously onto the same screen, practically with the same speed and efficiency as they were sitting by the same table, by using programs such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft NetMeeting.

Think printing will be obsolete in 10 years? This article from Computer Business Review explains how printing technology has evolved. The growing importance of intelligent applications has forced vendors to focus more on the lifecycle of the document management process. HP for example has launched a new packaged document management application called mPower, in partnership with vendor Hadleigh Marshall. Based on a Lotus Notes database, the system enables employees to remotely access via a Web browser their email and paper-based mail on their mobile PDA or laptop devices.