SoDeog Technologies, Inc. announced a worldwide partnership agreement with Ericsson in which SoDeog, the developer of SyncTalk software, will become an Ericsson Business Ally Partner. As an Ericsson partner, SoDeog will develop SyncTalk solutions that support existing and future Ericsson technologies. Specifically, SoDeog will focus on enabling Ericsson’s smartphones and communicator platform to seamlessly share information with most other handheld devices like PDAs, smartphones, and pagers.

MSNBC has an article from The Wall Street Journal on how bugs and user errors are plaguing handhelds. According to the article, as the popularity of PDAs increases, so does consumer’s frustration levels as new bugs, viruses, and hardware flaws are turning up.

Fortune.com has an article envisioning a day when all of our personal devices will be able to work together seamlessly. The author outlines what needs to happen to make that possible.

BikeBrain has announced a new model of BikeBrain made especially for the Visor handhelds. The BikeBrain case has been redesigned to accommodate Springboard modules, and the wheel sensor uses the correct Handspring connector.

YadaYada Inc. announced the availability of a bundled CDPD wireless package for the Handspring Visor Platinum that combines YadaYada’s wireless service and wireless modem with the Handspring Visor Platinum.

eWEEK reports that Intersil Corp. and Silicon Wave Inc. are working together to solve one of a radio frequency problem facing Bluetooth technology. The radio frequency on which Bluetooth operates is the same one used by wireless LANs. According to the article, when an 802.11 connection collides with a Bluetooth connection, transmission errors often occur.

AvantGo, Inc. announced Buildscape, Inc. has developed and deployed an AvantGo Enterprise-powered solution that enables construction contractors and builders to store, send, and receive critical building and supply data from wireless devices.

SyncML has today released the SyncML 1.0 specification and a SyncML Reference Toolkit source code, enabling companies to rapidly bring SyncML-compliant products to the market.

SF Gate has an article that considers the importance of memory in choosing a new Palm or Handspring device.

Bloomberg News on CNet has an interesting article on what happened when Laurence Meyer, a Federal Reserve governor, accidently left his Palm device in a taxi in New York City.