Handspring launched an online Wireless Application Development Center for developers interested in creating wireless applications for the Treo communicator products, VisorPhone, wireless Springboard modules, and the Blazer Web browser.

Paragon Software has signed an agreement with ZAO MediaLingua a dictionaries development company. According to this agreement have released MultiLex dictionaries with new dictionary databases. Russian-German-Russian, Russian-French-Russian (with transcription), Russian-English-Russian (with transcription), Italian-Russian and Spanish-Russian dictionaries are available.

Scripting News is running an interesting commentary on some of the pioneering magazines of the personal computer business, including Byte and Creative Computing. He also mentions our very own David Gewirtz, along with the first, ever, public link to David’s personal Web site.

SplashData announced a special introductory offer on SplashShopper, support for Palm Desktop 4.0 for Mac OS X, and free updates on all SplashData products. SplashShopper is a shopping list application for Palm OS handhelds.

Cutting Edge Software is nearing the end of its celebration of Quicksheet’s 5th birthday. Drawings for several Palm Powered products, including a HandEra 330, will be held on February 18. Other prizes were donated from Bachmann Software, DDH Software, Electric Pocket, Trust Digital, and Astraware. You can go here to register for the drawings.

For those of you wondering where we were (or at least our Web sites were) last night, the folks who feed us our T-1 lost a good chunk of the East Coast last night. Heck, maybe this is what the FBI was warning us all about!

mFormation Technologies Inc. and GoAmerica Inc. announced they will team to offer secure, controlled, and fully managed wireless data solutions to corporate customers. As part of GoAmerica’s wireless offering, mFormation Enterprise Manager will provide customers with improved security and control over growing wireless deployments. In addition, mFormation will integrate GoAmerica’s infrastructure with its offering, benefiting from GoAmerica’s carrier connections and Network Operation Center technology. Baylor Health Care System is the first customer to adopt the combined solution.

Cutting Edge Software announced it received several awards at Handheld Computing Magazine’s Best Palm Powered Products Awards ceremony held at the PalmSource conference last week. Winning in more categories than any other company, Cutting Edge Software’s Quickoffice was honored as Best Office Suite and the company’s Quicksheet was named the industry’s best spreadsheet. In a new category, Cutting Edge Software’s new Quickoffice Conference Edition received a Special Award for Wireless Innovation. The company also was named a finalist in the category of Best Document Editor/Reader for its Quickword application.

Palm announced Palm OS handheld computers are becoming a useful tool in the fast-paced, deadline-driven trucking industry to communicate with dispatchers, report information or problems, and better serve customers. Truck drivers often encounter electrical or mechanical problems that are hard to diagnose on the road; Palm handhelds can provide drivers with critical diagnostic information to understand and resolve issues. They can also help to avoid communication problems and misunderstood invoices, and save companies money by getting customer information to back offices quickly.

For those of you wondering where we were (or at least our Web sites were) last night, the folks who feed us our T-1 lost a good chunk of the East Coast last night. Heck, maybe this is what the FBI was warning us all about!