Palm, Inc. announced that Palm Ventures, its strategic venture investment group, has made an investment in ePhysician, a health-technology company based in Mountain View, Calif. ePhysician products are designed to help doctors improve patient care and practice efficiencies through handheld services and information delivery.

Debbie McCormick at Brighthand provides an opinion piece saying historically, men have dominated the tech world, but that’s starting to change as women get into gadgets too.

Project PDA Soft, LLC, announced the grand opening of ProjectPDASoft.com, a support Web site for their new literary agency designed to assist programmers, authors, and developers of Palm OS and Pocket PC software by negotiating contracts with software publishers and international distributors.

ibrite, Inc., a company focused on building content publishing software for the handheld computer, announced the appointment of Tony Cancelosi as chief executive officer.

Informal Software, Inc. announced that it’s shipping the latest version of its enotate software. Additional capabilities have been added to enotate v1.2, including support for Microsoft Excel and the Handspring Visor.

AppForge, Inc. announced the completion of a $6.5 million first round of financing led by Draper Atlantic, the East Coast affiliate of Silicon Valley’s Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Synchrologic announced its support of the SyncML initiative by extending the industry standard to its ReadySyncGo! product. Additionally, in Q1, ReadySyncGo! users will be able to wirelessly synchronize their devices using SyncML-based technology for Palm VII and CDPD modems.

fourthchannel, inc. has entered into a development alliance with Shadowpack, Inc.. The partnership extends the functionality of fourthchannel’s e-business solutions suite, including catalog, order management, personalization, merchandising, and configuration, to users of a wide variety of wireless devices, including personal digital assistants, smart phones, pagers, and Web tablets.

DDH Software announced a new RunTime program to convert any HanDBase database into a free-standing Palm OS application. The program is targeted at companies wanting to create custom applications, as well as individual developers who are interested in building software products powered by HanDBase.

NowSpeed, Inc. announced it was nominated for Mobile Insights’ 7th Annual Mobility Awards, the awards that honor the industry’s top mobile and wireless products introduced in 2000.