HandheldCrime has announced issue 8 of the free short crime fiction publication is available for reading on your handheld. It features new original short fiction from Hugh Lessig, John A. Broussard, and J. Michael Blue as well as the first installment of David Kearns’ novel The Muckrakers.

ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced the appearance of its smARTcar software, the embedded software solution for Human User Interface for the e-car of tomorrow. ART exhibited its smARTcar proprietary technology at the Paris INCARtech conference held at the CNIT, Paris La Defense.

Synchrologic announced the grand opening of its first European office in Oxfordshire, near London. In addition, Synchrologic named Martin Allen managing director of the European business unit.

CNET News.com has an article on the slow start of Bluetooth technology, the short-range wireless communication standard that allows electronic devices that are within 30 feet of each other to share information.

Quadralay Corporation and Firepad, Inc. announced they will work together to provide a solution for bringing FrameMaker documents to Palm OS handheld devices. Quadralay intends to implement support for Firepad

TealPoint Software announced the release TealAgent, a PC-based Palm data converter, installer, and offline Web browser. TealAgent formats local, network, and Web-resident data for the Palm handhelds, converting them to standard formats for viewing in programs such as TealDoc, TealMeal, TealInfo and others.

iambic Software has released TinySheet 3.1. This new version of the Excel-like spreadsheet software for Palm OS devices now offers sorting, enterprise class support for bar code scanning, improved recognition of international settings, and 80 built-in functions, including 13 new text functions. Registered owners of TinySheet 3.0 can upgrade to 3.1 for free.

CBS.MarketWatch.com reports that in Japan, NTT DoCoMo’s I-mode cell phone continues to win out over PDAs. According to the article, “That hasn’t stopped the world’s leading PDA makers from arriving in Japanese shores for a crack at the potentially huge market.”

Mercury News has an article on Rovenet Inc.’s free Where2Go 1.0 bathroom finder download which arrived on Palm Inc.’s wireless portal Palm.net and on YadaYada.com, another wireless provider.

While you’re at it, TealPoint also has a sneak preview of their new TealMovie software. We’ve tried it out here at PalmPower and can’t wait to see what the finished product is going to do.