MobiMate announced PhoneMate, designed to allow you to look up a number in your address book single-handedly.

Handspring, Inc., in partnership with eLance, announced the launch of an online marketplace for Handspring developers, partners, and service providers to rapidly and efficiently do business with each other.

CNET News.com has an article on Palm’s acquisition of mobile data management company, Extended Systems. According to the article, the deal will allow Palm to offer a handheld infrastructure that can go behind a company’s firewall and support not only handhelds using its Palm operating system, but also products using rival operating systems.

DDH Software, Inc. announced a two-way synchronization conduit for its HanDBase relational database application for Palm handheld computers. The new conduit provides Palm device users with safeguards against potential lost data that might occur during the synchronization process between the handheld and desktop PC.

Dollar Rent A Car announced customers can now book a vehicle directly through dollar.com from any Palm OS device that has access to the Internet.

Wireless NewsFactor has an article on F-Secure’s second generation antivirus product and service for the Palm OS.

The New York Times has an article on the new Palm m105. Free registration is required to read this article.

CNET has a Reuters piece saying Palm has reached an agreement with Canon Sales to distribute its handheld computers throughout Japan.

CNET News.com has an aritcle on Sylvia Paull, the director of GraceNet, a women’s high-tech networking group “that has made a mission of embarrassing software and Internet industry companies that use cheap come-ons in their advertising campaigns.” The article references the “Simply Palm” campaign which featured a naked woman holding up a Palm device.

TestQuest, Inc. announced that ePocrates, Inc. has licensed TestQuest Pro to provide a test automation solution to help ensure the quality of ePocrates’ qRx clinical information application for the Palm OS.