Mobile Tech News -- Handy Weather, SplashNews, and Spb Traveler

Handy Weather for Palm OS Devices Now Available

One of the most popular items to look up on mobile devices is the weather, and Paragon Software's latest release Handy Weather, seeks to make this easier and more usable.

Handy Weather provides detailed and up-to-date 5-day weather forecast for any city in the world. It also features:

• Forecast for up to 30 chosen locations simultaneously
• Automatic or manual weather updates
• Three weather views: 5-day forecast, detailed one-day forecast, 5-day temperature graph
• Key Guard option displays the weather forecast each time turning on the device without Handy Weather launching
• Less than 1Kb per city forecast download

For more information and to download a free trial (purchase for $14.95), visit the Handy Weather web site from a desktop or Palm OS wireless device.

Free SplashNews RSS Reader Released

RSS has become an accessible way for news and blog readers to keep up with their web sites of choice, and now SplashData makes that even easier on Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices with the introduction of the free (but ad supported) SplashNews RSS reader.

This application features a refined user interface and a simple means to import RSS feed addresses from web sites. Advertising stays in a banner space at the top of the screen, and may feature static, dynamic, Click-to-Browse, or Click-to-Call types of ads. No pop-up ads or personally identifiable information is collected in order to serve the ads.

For more information and to download for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices, visit the SplashNews web site.

Spb Software House Introduces Spb Traveler

With mobile devices being used for traveling consumers and business persons, many feel that solid travel software is a must for keeping track of what to do and what was spent. Spb Traveler is a collection of smaller applications which work together in making sure that traveling is both cost effective and rewarding.

Featuring a world time click, weather forecast, currency converter, unit converter, clothing sizes converter/recorder, tip calculator, flight assistant, meeting planner, and a geo game, Spb Traveler makes it easier to enjoy a vacation or business trip without worrying about how to log and recall that information later.

For more information and to download a trial of Spb Traveler, visit the Spb web site.