Handspring, Inc. and Brightstar Corp. will work together to bring Handspring’s Treo 270 GSM worldphone to Latin America. Through an agreement signed by the companies, Brightstar will distribute the Treo 270 and Treo accessories throughout all of Latin America (except Mexico and Brazil). In its role as primary distributor of Treo in the Latin America region, Brightstar will handle the importation, distribution, marketing, fulfillment, and service and support for Handspring. Brightstar will manage the Handspring business through its Wireless Data division. The product is available through Brightstar’s 20 facilities in 17 countries located in Latin America serving operators, direct, and indirect sales channels.

Qvadis announced the public release of Envoyage, a versatile city guides program for Palm OS handhelds. Envoyage combines a free viewer with add-in city modules, providing travellers with fingertip access to information on culture, dining, hotels, nightlife, special events, sports and leisure, transport, and more.

Paragon Software also released the English explanatory dictionary of American and British English. The dictionary is based on famous WordNet lexical database by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This dictionary has all advantages of SlovoEd dictionary engine: user-friendly interface, unique data compression technology, and ability to look for explanation of selected word from within other applications.

NowSpeed, Inc. announced that it has added over 2,000 new licensed users of its NowSpeed Mobile Office software in the past two months. The company recently sold its NowSpeed Mobile Office software into companies representing a variety of industries across the United States, including biotech, banking, law, and technology consulting. In addition, NowSpeed has also secured its first international customer: the Investment Management Association (IMA), headquartered in London, U.K.

Paragon Software (Smart Handheld Devices Division) announced the release of the new RifleSLUGs-II: The Invasion game, a remake of the RifleSLUGs game for Palm OS based devices with high resolution color screens. Red slugs have returned, armed with various weapons, well-trained, and more cruel than ever. The only thing that remains the same: their lust for power and destruction. Yet, yellow slugs are ready for the battle.

ePocrates announced the following formularies: Oxford Drug Formulary Guide, Humana Rx4 Drug List, and Humana Rx3 Drug List. If you are currently using ePocrates Rx 6.0 or ePocrates Rx Pro, you can download these formularies and many others by visiting their Web site and clicking on “Add Formularies” at the top of the page (underneath “Headlines”).

PhatWare Corporation just released their PhatSpell software for the PocketPC. PhatSpell is a multi-lingual spell checking utility optimized for Pocket PC platforms. It includes a comprehensive collection of 10 dictionaries in 8 world languages, which can be accessed from within practically any text-based Pocket PC application.

Gary Ankney at edupalm.org reports in with some changes in pricing at Palm and Sony.

Palm changes:

Depending on which page you visit at the Palm site, the i705’s price has slipped $50 to $149 (only $99 after the $50 rebate), and the m500 has disappeared. Try to buy the m500 (if you can find it), and you’re told it’s temporarily out of stock. Special deals include a free case for the Zire, a $10 16M memory card with the m125, a free Veo camera with the Tungsten T, and $50 AT&T wireless service with the Tungsten W. These deals may be hard to find, so check http://store.palm.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3D1157580. Find other rebates at http://store.palm.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3D1180013. Palm is the low-end champ, with three models currently at $99–no other company has an offering below $149.

Sony Changes:

The SJ20 is gone, long live the SJ22? Not quite, it looks as if Sony may keep the SJ20 to anchor the low end at $150 as it introduces the SJ22 at $200 and the TG50 at $400.

Mazingo Mobile Entertainment Network announced that it will offer national and international news video highlights from The Associated Press through an agreement with AP Digital, a division of the AP that provides news and information to interactive applications. AP’s news video will be available on mobile devices via a proprietary delivery network from Mazingo.

Mazingo delivers subscription-based news video channels to handheld computers, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and smart phones through hundreds of downloadable video programs. AP’s One Minute World, Today’s News, and Entertainment News video channels will now be available to Mazingo’s mobile consumers anywhere, anytime.

Expand Beyond Corp. introduced the Mobile IT Ready Kit to provide enterprises with low-cost insurance against major IT disruptions. The new bundled offering from Expand Beyond is designed to allow a company