Quickoffice version 6.0 has been released. This new version sports a brand new Quickoffice Desktop, expansion memory card support, new Zoom views, hi-res screens, spelling+thesaurus, more.

LandWare’s Pocket Quicken was awarded a 9 out of 10 rating by CNET Editors and voted the best Palm OS application on the market. Pocket Quicken 2.0 has also been given the CNET Editors’ Choice award, which recognizes computing products of the highest quality, design, and service to users.

Palm Infocenter’s Ed Hardy has a post of his first impressions of the Treo 90. According to the post, “In some ways, the Treo 90 breaks new ground for Handspring. It is the first of their models to include an SD slot or run Palm OS 4.1. At the same time, it is a return to the company’s original focus: handhelds, not smartphones.”

Palm Infocenter has a post about SyChip, which is developing an 802.11b SDIO card. According to the posting, it will be able to do both peer-to-peer networking and connect to network access points.

AvantGo, Inc. introduced AvantGo M-Business Server 5.0 Web Edition, a mobile Web-based solution designed to increase information access, improve employee communication, and streamline information dissemination by mobilizing existing business information located on corporate portals and intranets.

The Register has an article on how mobile middleware vendor Extended Systems Inc appears to have been dumped by IBM Corp in the latest release of its Lotus Domino groupware and application platform. According to the article, Extended has previously been favored by IBM as a provider of mobile device to desktop synchronization software, but now it appears that IBM is favoring its own synchronization software based on the evolving SyncML standard.

TheraSense, Inc. announced it has received FDA clearance to market the FreeStyle Tracker Diabetes Management System, a glucose monitoring system that is integrated into a personal digital assistant (PDA). Available for use with the Handspring Visor PDA, the new diabetes monitoring and management tool enables patients to test for glucose levels and get a read-out on the PDA screen, graph and chart the results over time, review carbohydrate food lists to track their food intake, create reminders about testing or dietary choices, and more. For doctors, the FreeStyle Tracker System provides a time stamped progression of the patient’s glucose levels as well as patient-entered events and data that affect their diabetic health to make better diagnoses and recommendations for the patient’s diabetes care.

Rococo Software announced the launch of Impronto Developer Kit, a standards-based Java tool for developing Bluetooth applications. Rococo’s Impronto Developer Kit is designed to make building Bluetooth applications easy by hiding complex Bluetooth protocols behind standard Java APIs.

Metrowerks announced that its CodeWarrior Development Tools for intent Media Platform is the first third party development tool suite to support Hitachi, Ltd.’s new SH-Mobile (SuperH Mobile Application Processor) series. SH-Mobile allows high speed processing of multimedia applications for next-generation mobile phone systems. CodeWarrior Development Tools for intent Media Platform is designed to let developers create applications that run on a multitude of media devices through the innovative intent platform from the TAO Group. This includes set-top boxes, PDAs, next-generation handsets, digital cameras, and other consumer electronic devices.

CNET News.com reports Palm will be introducing three new handhelds this fall, including one designed to sell for $100. According to the article, Palm believes it can design a product to be sold at that price and still meet its profit-margin targets.