Kickoo has announced TakTik. TakTik is a reflection and tactical game, where two players (Tak & Tik) face each other with teams made of several kinds of pieces. The goal is simple: capture the opponent princess while protecting your own.

Karrier Communications announced their new IntelliGolf/IntelliSwim sports software bundle. The IntelliGolf software automates golf scoring, wagering, and shot tracking. The IntelliSwim software times, totals, and graphs swimmer performance. At $49.95 customers will save $30.00 as compared to purchasing both products separately.

Palm has issued a press release to annuonce the PalmSource Conference and Expo, the premier gathering of the Palm OS community. It will take place from February 5-8, 2002 at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California.

Handmedia, a new company just joining the handheld PDA market, announced their new line of handheld devices running the Palm OS. No Web site was available, but according to the somewhat cryptic press release, Handmedia the handhelds will feature never-before-seen features, including up to 128 megabytes of RAM. With the new series of handhelds you would be able to add an optional GPS unit and/or a Bluetooth card. The new series of handhelds would feature new, high-resolution color screens. Handmedia=D4 is a privately owned company, based in Toronto, Ontario. For more information, you can email jeffrey.mcmurtrie@rogers.com.

As enterprises come to recognise handheld computing as a key competitive differentiator, and the trend toward enterprise deployment of handhelds accelerates, Palm, Inc. is bringing together leading enterprise handheld computing solution providers at the Palm Enterprise Summit 2002 in Singapore on January 29.

The Palm Enterprise Summit is intended to inform and empower CEOs and business professionals, CIOs and IT managers, hardware and software developers, and others seeking to evaluate and deploy enterprise handheld computing solutions.

The Palm Enterprise Summit will be held in Singapore at the Raffles City Convention Centre. Attendees must pre-register and attendance is free.

InfoWorld reports Palm will unveil OS 5 at PalmSource the week of February 4 in San Jose, California. According to the article, three significant improvements include the ability to use multitasking and multithreading in applications, improved performance using OS 5 with the faster processor, and compatibility with current applications.

Jen, the Pocket Goddess, has a review of the m505 SmarterCase. According to Jen, the m505 SmarterCase is very nicely made and fits the Palm m505 quite snugly.

The third edition of IBM’s Palm OS app building series covers the employment of conduits for moving data to and from Palm OS devices. You’ll see the advantages to conduits, then learn how to install and deploy them.

ZDNET UK reports Palm has revealed that it will be shipping its Bluetooth add-on card in February to UK buyers.

Astraware and GameHouse announced their partnership to bring Collapse and Text Twist, two popular online games, to Palm OS handheld computers.