Handspring and XcelleNet, Inc. announced a sales and marketing relationship focused on providing companies using Handspring Treo communicators and Visor handhelds with the ability to centrally manage their mobile assets. The companies will work together to market XcelleNet

AptHand released version 1.0 of Home Buying for Digerati. New features include “apt info” tips, updated backgrounder with more advice, searching the backgrounder via the Palm OS global find mechanism, and other enhancements.

Astraware announced that its Bejeweled game for Palm OS handhelds was named as one of two winners in Handheld Computing Magazine’s Best Palm Powered Products of 2001 Awards under the category of “Best Commercial Game.” Bejeweled is a colorful puzzle game created and distributed by Astraware Ltd.

Drs Jonathan Winehouse MD, CEO AssociaMedSM and Rakesh Patel, CTO MedsPDA have announced their new Web sites AssociaMed and MedsPDA have joined forces to launch a medical community where Doctors and scientists from all over the world can meet online to discuss information, ideas, research, educational activities, and share handheld software.

Handspring has dropped the price of the Visor Edge from $249 to $199. Visor Edge has a monochrome screen, a rechargeable battery, and 8MB of memory.

At PalmSource, PDA Secure was named Best Enterprise Security Application by Handheld Computing Magazine during its Best Palm Powered Products of the Year for 2001 ceremony on Thursday. The annual awards showcase the year’s best Palm Powered products, and are chosen by the magazine’s editorial staff. Products are evaluated on the basis of innovation, design, accessibility, and appeal.

Palm, Inc. noted that Palm Digital Media was named Best eBook Publisher by Handheld Computing Magazine when it announced its list of Best Palm Powered Products of the Year for 2001. Palm Digital Media won top honors in its category for what the editors call the “amazing” quality and selection of its electronic books. Palm Digital Media offers more than 4,000 eBooks from most major U.S. publishing houses.

CNET News.com has a reporter’s notebook article on the PalmSource developer conferences that talks about the power failure that plagued the early hours of the event.

CNET News.com reports on the new mantra for Palm’s operating system unit: We don’t make money unless you make money. According to the article, OS chief David Nagel first delivered it Tuesday as part of his keynote speech at the PalmSource developers conference in San Jose, California.

The best of the best in Palm Powered handheld computing technologies were recognized as winners and finalists of Handheld Computing Magazine’s annual Best Palm Powered Products Awards. Senior editors from Handheld Computing Magazine selected and honored the most innovative and noteworthy Palm Powered products in 37 different categories. The award-winners and finalists were announced in a ceremony at PalmSource.