SplashData has released a major new version of its SplashPhoto application for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. SplashPhoto is a robust and feature packed photo management utility that has been around for over 8 years now. Version 5 features a new enhanced UI, support for new formats, and the ability to share photos on the Web with Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook. The UI has been made more finger friendly for easier navigation and you now have many more options to share and sync your photos.

For business professionals who can’t stand to waste a minute, Intuit is delivering the ability to do accounting on a smartphone. On Monday, Intuit announced integration for both the iPhone and Blackberry with QuickBooks Online, a Web-based business accounting application.

Intuit is billing the integration as a means to give small-business owners more freedom to manage their business anywhere, anytime–with or without a computer–in what it calls an early version Web-based mobile application.

Amazon will ship new versions of its Kindle e-book reader before year’s end. The original reader launched last November sold out in its first week and had Amazon scrambling to fill holiday orders. While sales have been brisk, estimates vary.

A Seattle newspaper confirmed late last week that Amazon.com is in the late stages of rolling out two new versions of Kindle. Reports unconfirmed by Amazon indicate there will be at least two new devices–one with a new user interface but the same dimensions of the original paperback-sized reader, and another the size of an 8-by-11-inch sheet of paper. Other tantalizing details are that the new readers may sport color choices.

What would Rousseau have made of the modern-day balls and chains with which we shackle ourselves? They are not made of steel or iron, but of silicon and plastic and digits and electrons and waves zooming through the air. These are the chains of all kinds of devices, like the BlackBerry, the iPhone and the Voyager. These are the chains with which we have bound ourselves, losing much of our solitude and our ability to see the world around and inside us.

The Intel Classmate PC notebook is undergoing a makeover that will add touch-screen and tablet capabilities to the low-cost laptop for students, and these versions of the Classmate will also include the Intel Atom processor.

At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel representatives were showing off the new Classmate design that is expected to hit retail shelves and the education IT market by the end of 2008. While some of the original Classmate designs used the older Intel Celeron processor, these updated laptops will come standard with single-core Atom processors.

AIM for Windows Mobile brings AOL’s instant-messaging service to compatible smartphones. The free app lets you manage your Buddy List, customize your AIM status, use emoticons, and engage in multiple conversations simultaneously–in short, just about everything you can do in the desktop version.

Apple appears to be censoring discussion of a display manufacturing defect in the PowerBook G4 17-inch and have not acknowledging that the defect even exists. Notebook computers, especially 17s, are an expensive investment to have just go belly-up shortly after they come out of warranty. Some people have had their machines die right after the one-year warranty expires. Read more about the complaints and censorship and decide for yourself.

For a limited time only Skyfire, the only flash-enabled Web browser for the Windows Mobile platform, is opening up to all comers. The browser, which now supports Silverlight, will now be accessible to all comers who use the special code “Michael8,” meaning Skyfire users can now watch all the streaming video from the Olympics. Skyfire says they did this to commemorate Michael Phelps’s monumental accomplishment of winning 8 Gold metals in a single Olympic games.

A new issue has cropped up with Apple’s MobileMe service: MobileMe leaves users vulnerable to spamming. MobileMe users’ iDisk file-sharing sites show usernames–an easy way for spammers to gather email addresses. Security experts say Apple should be more concerned with MobileMe’s potential for spam and phishing attacks.

While developers have been hard at work building Android applications that can use GPS, Wi-Fi, and cameras, they just discovered they likely won’t be able to offer applications that use one common mobile phone feature: Bluetooth.

The most recent Android SDK, released on Monday, says that Android1.0 won’t include a “comprehensive” Bluetooth API.