Palm, Inc. has sold its two-millionth Centro smartphone. Palm is now offering Centro in more than 25 countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Voxpilot and IVO Software announce the integration of IVONA Text-To-Speech (TTS) with Voxpilot’s Open Media Platform (OMP). IVONA TTS currently supports US-English, Romanian, and Polish voices.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo announced the release of new routing capabilities. The new capabilities deliver benefits by converting the OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) layer to server-based and desktop routing solutions.

FTS announced that Globalcom(tm) Inc. has gone live with Leap(tm) RevChain(r) Version 7.1. The deployment has enabled Globalcom to migrate from outsourced billing operations to in-house, resource-efficient billing management.

Vertex announced the completion of the transaction with Alliance Data Systems Corporation to acquire its Utility Services business. Alliance Data’s Utility Services provides billing systems, professional services and process outsourcing to utilities in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement was originally announced on July 14th, 2008.

Total Systems plc announced the signature of a contract with Capita Insurance Services. Capita has selected Total’s customer-centric insurance platform, Ultima, as their strategic platform for General Insurance.

Wick Hill has been named the first UK distributor for US company ArcSight, a provider of security and compliance management solutions that help organisations comply with regulatory policies and control security risks.

Compliance is becoming an increasing concern for many companies, with ever more regulations coming into force.

In a landmark decision, the FCC is set to censure Comcast for engaging in traffic management. While largely symbolic – Comcast will not be fined, the Journal reports – it marks an important victory for those seeking greater regulation of the internet.

Dilbert is alive and well.

Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive Google Inc. bought it in 2004.

She believes her latest invention, Cuil – pronounced “cool”, is even more valuable – only this time it’s not for sale.

VMware, Inc. announced its stand-alone ESXi hypervisor will be available at no cost to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization.