
Handcase, a maker of applications for the Palm, announces the availability of its HandWidgets product in English. HandWidgets include a number of games and applications you can synchronize to your PC.

Tracy Mooney, a participant in McAfee’s Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment, tells some of the highlights of her experience.

Chrysler is turning select models of Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots. Starting next year, will have the option of buying the UConnect service which includes a 30 GB harddrive to hold music, video, and photos for wireless access.

Motorola is releasing the ROKR E8 cellphone in the US on July 7 through T-Mobile. The candybar-style phone features ModeShift technology allowing the handset to switch from phone to media player at the touch of a single button.

AT&T has announced it will sell the iPhone without the usual 2-year contract. For $400 more than the price of iPhone and contract, you can now buy the iPhone. Buyers would then buy a month-to-month contract for service.

ECYPH LLC is offering new Charging Power Data Cables for iPhones and iPods. The new serial cables work with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPod universal. Developers for iPhone and iPod now have a Serial RS232 Charging Power and Audio cable solution previously only available on the Palm/Treo platform.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, has joined the board of Facebook. He is expected to bring a wealth of experience to Facebook.

WorldMate, provider of mobile travel services for frequent flyers, announced the commercial launch of WorldMate Live for Windows Mobile. WorldMate Live for Windows Mobile allows travelers to easily create and manage their entire itinerary, as well as access critical real-time information related to their travel schedule.
The Windows Mobile version supports all of WorldMate Live’s most popular features, including flight status and alerts, flight schedules, weather forecasts, and more. The service is compatible with both Windows Mobile Standard and Professional Edition phones, such as the BlackJack II by Samsung, the HTC S620 and TYTN II and Motorola’s MOTO Q class phones. In addition, WorldMate Live currently supports Windows Mobile versions 5 through 6.1 on QVGA resolution touch and non-touch screens.

With more than 2 billion mobile phones already in use around the world, Cascada Mobile announced Breeze, a new development platform that can transform ideas into globally distributed mobile applications in as little as fifteen minutes. Cascada’s Breeze platform provides anyone with knowledge of even the most basic Web programming languages the easiest method for creating, testing and distributing mobile applications to phones anywhere in the world. Breeze-created applications are subsidized by mobile advertisements making the service free for anyone to use.

Brightstar and Research In Motion announced they have expanded their existing distribution relationship, launching a dedicated program to increase availability of BlackBerry smartphones in Verizon Wireless indirect channels.
The new channel program launched by Brightstar delivers innovative marketing, sales, inventory management and credit management programs to national retailers and local agents of Verizon Wireless, one of the nation’s leading wireless carriers serving over 67 million customers. The program will help bring BlackBerry smartphones to thousands of additional indirect points of sale faster, to better meet the high demand for BlackBerry products by consumers throughout the U.S.