Palm and Globe Telecom introduced the Treo 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone, in the Philippines. Globe customers will find the Treo 680 smartphone easy to use, slim and compact, yet packed full of features beyond its stellar phone capability, such as email, Web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts and more. Palm believes this product, which is available now, will appeal to feature-phone users who want a more capable mobile-computing device.

StyleTap announced that the preview version of StyleTap Platform for Windows Smartphone is now available. StyleTap Platform enables the world’s largest base of mobile applications–the estimated 30,000 applications written to run on Palm OS–to run on Windows Smartphones, including the new Motorola Moto Q, the T-Mobile Dash, and the Samsung Blackjack. These smartphones have experienced very strong sales growth since their introduction last year. However, because they have novel display formats and lack the touchscreens found on traditional Pocket PC devices, relatively little application software is available for these new devices.

Advantage International, Microsoft Exchange & Outlook solutions provider and Microsoft Certified Partner, announced many mobile professionals are using their Outlook synchronization solution, Add2Exchange, to help synchronize their Outlook calendars, contacts, & tasks between multiple mobile devices. Add2Exchange increases out-of-office productivity by synchronizing Outlook calendars, contacts & tasks between user’s mailboxes, so they can be wirelessly synced to their mobile devices. Now an entire group, department, or organization can have identical calendars, contacts and/or tasks on each of their BlackBerry handhelds, Pocket PCs, or Treo Smartphones.

Boxwave has released their FlexiSkin case, DirectSync cable, and Wall Charger unit for the new Microsoft Zune media player.

Boxwave has released their ClearTouch Screen Protectors for the Motorola CRZR K1, and the FlexiSkin for the Sony Ericsson Z558i.

Boxwave has released their Desktop Cradle for the Nokia E61, E62, Cingular 3125, Mio A700, T-Mobile Dash, and UBiQUiO 501.

Boxwave has released new products for Samsung and T-Mobile devices, including miniSync and DirectSync cables for the SGH-T809 and BlackJack, Armor cases for the BlackJack and Dash, as well as a Standard replacement battery for the Dash and screen protectors for the BlackJack.

The Proporta Alu-Leather case has been so popular they decided to base the latest design on it, and now present to you the Proporta Lateral Case. After listening closely to customers and valued reviewers, it became clear that the issue of improved side protection needed to be addressed in order for the case to provide an even higher level of protection. The Lateral Case offers side protection made from aircraft grade aluminum, whilst the screen is still protected by Proporta’s “Screen Saver” System. All of the popular benefits of the Alu-Leather Case are still present in the Lateral Case–luxury leather, screen saver system, optional belt clip and magnetic closure system.

Alienware unveiled the latest 17 inch high-performance notebook to join the Alienware mobile lineup. The Area-51 m5790 Special Edition, with its signature, eye-catching cool design, delivers unprecedented levels of performance for enthusiasts, gamers and professionals who seek a notebook designed to store, manage and showcase digital content in brilliant visual and audio detail.

An industry group has formally christened a faster second-generation version of the PCI technology that’s used to plug everything from video cards to InfiniBand adapters into computers. As expected, PCI Express turned 2.0 by fiat of the PCI Special Interest Group, the industry cooperative that governs the specification and announced the new version Monday. PCI Express–a modernized sequel to the original PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) that spread to essentially every server and PC since it was introduced in the 1990s–can transfer 2.5 gigabits per second on each wire, pin or other electrical connection called “lanes” between a computer and a plug-in device. PCI Express 2.0 doubles that rate to 5Gbps, and as with the existing PCIe, multiple lanes can be ganged together.