PDAstreet.com reports SRS Labs has announced the availability of their WOW system for small speaker devices, which is designed to improve sound in small speakers like those found on handheld devices.

Yahoo has an article on IBM’s TransNote, a combination of notebook computer and digital writing tablet.

iVoice.com, Inc. and Fonix Corporation announced the signing of an OEM agreement wherein Fonix will provide its FAAST Text-To-Speech (TTS) 5.0 system to iVoice to incorporate in the iVoice Unified Messaging System.

ComputerUser.com that suggests the ultimate dream of users is to work with a Palm device using only their voice.

Infinity Softworks Inc. announced new versions of their graphing and financial software calculators. An integrated equation solver has been added to powerOne Graph and powerOne Finance. The equation solver is designed for people who have no programming experience or time to devise custom equations for complex spreadsheets.

CNET News.com reports that the feeling among many analysts and industry watchers that the wireless industry is slowing down seems to be true.

At the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC), Palm, Inc. announced the first round of its grant awards as part of the Palm Education Pioneer (PEP) program, and also introduced its Palm Education Training Coordinator (PETC) program, designed to support staff development in the implementation of Palm handheld computers in education.

The Boston Globe has a review of Sony’s CLIE saying the new device “fails to distinguish itself.”

ComputerUser.com has an article on the way Palm seems to be edging away from its faith in simplicity by “adding capability, complexity, and stuff to carry about.”

MSNBC has an article from the Wall Street Journal that reports Samsung Corp. unveiled a prototype of its combined cellphone and handheld computer which follows a trend among phone makers to do away with push-button keypads, and instead using liquid-crystal panels. According to the article, these devices are “essentially becoming handheld-sized screens with antennas attached.”