OmniSky Corporation introduced OmniSky Oxygen, a comprehensive wireless technology platform designed to enable telecommunications carriers, online service providers, hardware manufacturers, and others to rapidly deploy next-generation wireless services to their customers.

CNET News.com also reports that Palm has made a $100 price cut to the wireless Palm VIIx, bringing the price to $199.

CNET News.com reports Handspring has made a $50 price cut to the VisorPhone attachment, making it $249 with activation of wireless service or $449 without service.

Palm has announced the Palm OS reached a new milestone with the 10,000th third-party software application for Palm OS based handheld users–the Novell GroupWise 6 Web clipping application. The application is available from Palm, Inc.’s new “Software Connection” Web site, hosted by PalmGear.

TealPoint Software announced the release of TealMaster 1.40, designed to provide a standard way to safely enhance the functionality of the Palm through third-party add-on system extensions, commonly called “hacks.”

SimpleDevices has a sled called SimplePad designed to clip onto Palm V series PDAs to provide high-speed, wireless Internet connections.

CNET News.com has an article on E Ink, which will present and demonstrate its electronic ink technology at the Society for Information Display’s conference, June 3 to June 8 in San Jose, CA.

SplashData has released free updates of SplashMoney and SplashPhoto. SplashMoney 1.02 now includes Macintosh support, as well as bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. SplashPhoto 2.13 includes improved support for Handspring memory modules and minor bug fixes.

Please note, there will be no news coverage on Monday, May 14, as our news editor will be on assignment. News will resume Tuesday, May 15.

ZDNet News reports shares of Research In Motion stumbled after a Merrill Lynch analyst questioned whether one of RIM’s resellers has too many BlackBerry email pagers in inventory.