CBS.MarketWatch.com has an interview with Handspring Chief Executive Officer Donna Dubinsky in which she discusses the company’s effort behind its Visor line of handheld computers for the back-to-school and holiday seasons.

Continuing with its push into the education market, Palm has begun a special offer to get students ready for the upcoming school year. The company is offering a free Road Scholar CD containing a compilation of 11 software applications designed to enhance a Palm handheld as a learning tool. It’s available for customers who purchase a Palm handheld between now and September 30th. The Road Scholar CD features applications such as Due Yesterday, Thesaurus, powerOne Calculator, Accounts and Loans, Britannica Traveler, Kaplan To Go, Yet Another Unit Converter, DiddleBug, BigClock, Zillionaire!, and AvantGo.

Karrier Communications announced the shipment of its IntelliGolf scorecard software for Pocket PCs. The new software adds golf scorecard capabilities golfers can use to automate golf scoring, track wagers, keep caddie-style notes, track shots by club, collect statistics, and access over 9,000 signature golf course scorecards via the Internet.

Ectaco, Inc. announced an addition to its translation software product line. Palm OS and Windows CE versions have been developed and will be available from Monday, July 31. The software can be downloaded into a PDA and has a built-in bi-directional dictionary that should allow for instant word translation and backward translation. It also includes built-in multilanguage support and auto language select depending on direction of translation.

Jungo announced the release of WinDriver CE, a device driver development toolkit for the Windows CE platform which enables the developer to create a hardware access application on Windows CE, without having to master the Windows CE kernel.

EZOS announced the release of EzWAP, a WAP browser that is fully compatible with the Pocket PC. With EzWAP, a Pocket PC device can browse WAP sites that are part of the Internet just as it would browse HTML sites.

Ectaco, Inc. announced an addition to its translation software product line. Palm OS and Windows CE versions have been developed and will be available from Monday, July 31. The Language Teacher software can be downloaded into a PDA and has a built-in bi-directional dictionary that should allow for instant word translation and backward translation. It also includes built-in multilanguage support and auto language select depending on direction of translation.

Mercury Center has a story on the break up of 3Com and Palm, Inc., comparing it to the end of a romantic relationship. The article describes corporate separation as “an emotional process for employees who find themselves face-to-face with uncertainty and instability in a realm where they’re used to having more control.”

Palm has updated to version 3.5.2 in order to fix some low-level system bugs that had caused certain third party software to crash. The upgrade can be downloaded from the Palm Web site.

ComputerUser.com reports that Research in Motion’s BlackBerry wireless PDA will now be available from OneMain.com, an Internet service provider that concentrates on serving smaller metropolitan markets and rural communities. According to the article, this will make the BlackBerry available in these markets for the first time.