Bachmann Software & Services is introducing two new applications, PrintBoy Spreadsheets-Quicksheet Edition and PrintBoy Office, aimed at enabling mobile professionals to wirelessly print spreadsheets directly from their Palm computers.

E Ink Corporation and Philips Components announced that they will jointly develop high-resolution electronic ink displays for use in smart handheld devices. Under the terms of the agreement, Philips Venture Capital and Philips Components have made an investment in E Ink to help advance their research and development program to bring the company’s vision of electronic paper closer to market realization.

Synchrologic announced new features across its iMobile Suite enterprise mobile infrastructure solution.

Kite Networks announced the official commercial launch of the company

CNET News.com has an update on the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into whether Microsoft was deceptive in their “Can Your Palm Do That?” print advertising campaign. According to the article, the FTC claims the campaign did not clearly disclose that people needed to buy a separate modem for wireless functions.

ZDNet has an article on Palm’s wait and see attitude towards the mobile Internet.

ZDNet reports on the new devices Palm is on the verge of announcing, including the Palm M105, which, according to the article, will sell for around $200 and come with 8MB of memory, and the Palm M505, which will supposedly improve on the Palm V by adding a postage stamp-sized expansion slot and the option of a 16-bit color screen.

NonVi Games announced the release of Double Chess, which lets you play a single- or double-board game of chess. Double Chess comes in three versions: an OpenGL version running under Windows, and both an English and French version for the Palm OS.

DataViz has released a free upgrade to Documents To Go. The latest enhancements include new document creation on the handheld, support for the jog dial feature on the Sony Clie device, and improved speed when using the portable keyboard to edit documents.

PalmPower, DominoPower, and PalmPower’s Enterprise Edition now all have search engines! Yee-ha! Currently, the engine will search through all back issues for articles on pretty much any topic you’re interested in. Now our back issue library can become an even more active resource for your use. To look something up, just go to the journal’s home page and fill in the “Search” field.