Expanding its retail presence in New York, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced a new Palm® Retail Store, its largest store to date. Complete with Palm’s entire product portfolio of smartphones, handhelds, mobile managers and accessories, the store features live demonstrations and activations on three major U.S. carriers. The new flagship store, located in historic Rockefeller Center and facing Radio City Music Hall, is offering customers who purchase any Treo™ smartphone between Dec. 11 and Dec. 17 a free Palm Z22 handheld – the perfect stocking stuffer!

The U.S. and International Top Hotels, Resorts & Spa guides cover the world's best lodgings, as reviewed by nearly 22,000 avid travelers and travel professionals who stayed at hotels an average of 36 nights per year. America's Top Golf Courses guide rates the most popular golf courses in the United States based on the opinions of nearly 6,000 devoted golfers. These three new mobile guides add even more "in the know" recommendations of top destinations worldwide to the ZAGAT TO GO survey rankings for over 25,000 restaurants and nightspots in 70+ cities.

"ZAGAT TO GO v5.0 will help travelers find hotels, restaurants, golf courses and other entertainment destinations - along with qualified recommendations - while on the move," said Tim Zagat, co-founder of Zagat Survey. "Together, Zagat Survey and Handmark, continue to provide frequent travelers and mobile professionals with the latest reviews for business and leisure travel planning on the world's leading smartphones and mobile devices."

Seidio Inc., the leading manufacturer of Treo accessories, today released a new high end 3200mAh extended battery that boasts 77% longer talk and standy time than stock Palm batteries, and 33% more power than Seidio's high end 2400mAh battery. That equates to nearly 11 hours talk and 530 hours standby time. (You read that right!)

Talk about the perfect stocking stuffer! We have them exclusively in stock in our store. Act fast while our limited stock lasts!

The freeware game X-MAS Runner LITE is a gift for you and your Pocket PC from us at Ballshooter Games.

Completely sealing device from elements, OtterBox 1920 protects smartphones from water, dust, and dirt, while providing access to keypad, touch screen, volume, and program buttons. Compound latch facilitates opening and secure closing, while rubber overmolding provides grip and drop protection. Additional features include protective LCD cover, top cap for access to SD card slot, and Gore® membrane that seals speakers and microphones while still allowing use.

While Palm Treo smart phones have been around for years, Palm's first fully functional Treo was, arguably, the Treo 650, which was faster and had a superior display than its predecessors. But time has caught up with the Treo 650 with its paltry 32MB of RAM.

Such shortcomings, plus rapidly falling prices for smart phones, explain the newly released Treo 680. The Treo 680, available in the U.S. from Cingular, both shores up some -- but not all -- of the 650's shortcomings and follows the trend toward lower-priced smart phones. It's $199 price (with a Cingular plan) is roughly what Treo 650s have been going for lately and is about $100 less than the more powerful Treo 700w or 700p models.

PhatWare has updated its Windows Mobile character recognition software CalliGrapher - which supports cursive, print or mixed handwriting - to version 8.4 this week. The company says CalliGrapher employs fuzzy logic to covert pen stokes into text and recognize arbitrary alphanumeric strings, all without training.

In addition to handling today's increasingly popular square (240 x 240 pixel) displays - a capability added in the last update - and traditional rectangular (240 x 320 pixel) Pocket PC screens, the software can now handle rarer VGA (640 x 480 pixel) resolution displays.

TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player) has a long and illustrious history on not only Palm OS devices but Windows and Symbian-based handhelds as well. The developers of TCPMP, after honing their skills on the freeware version, have now decided to move forward to a next-generation, commercially released media player.

Now CorePlayer, the freeware app formerly as TCPMP, has finally arrived on the Palm OS scene after numerous delays and false starts. Read on to see if the new commercial version can unseat the quirky but rock-solid free version of TCPMP.

POCKET PC devices seemed to have reached a plateau in terms of innovation but that has not stopped software developers from designing cool applications that keeps the handheld computer looking "new

Palm Treo 700w and more!

You will never need another phone again. It’s a complete mind blow how capable the Treo is: it makes calls, it surfs the web, it doubles as a personal device assistant, it has Windows Mobile. Basically, if you’ve ever considered a PDA and are about to upgrade your phone, the Treo is what you want. Be sure that you’re ready for such an intense item, however, because it will set you back $399 if you’re a Sprint customer or $299 through Verizon. Few customers have reported problems with the smartphone and Palm is always great about customer service. Put this one on the wish list and wow your friends with your phone/computer/machine of God.

In its single largest expansion in its 90 year history, Morton Plant Hospital is opening the $52 million, 174,715 sq. ft. Morton Plant Mease Morgan Hospital to take cardiac care in the Tampa Bay area to the next level.

“We’ve taken our world-class heart program, added the best available technology and enhanced features for patient comfort to create heart care that takes all the needs of patients and their families into consideration. It truly is the whole package,” said Philip K. Beauchamp, president and chief executive officer of Morton Plant Mease Health Care.