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Lernen Sie Deutsch? Ein neues Wörterbuch für Ihre mobilen Geräte ist verfügbar. Paragon Software and Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH have released a new English-German dictionary collection for mobile devices. Powered by the SlovoEd dictionary engine the software is available for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and other platforms.

The Duden-Oxford English-German dictionary is an up-to-date dictionary of modern English and German designed for journalists, editors, students, interpreters, and translators, as well as for everyone else, who wants to write or speak neatly and stylistically correctly.

YouTube has released a new version of the mobile version of its web site accessible at m.youtube.com. The site now offers access to virtually all YouTube videos in a mobile optimized .3gp (RTSP) streaming format. The new site also incorporates many of the standard features of the regular website including account access, favorites and channels. You can also share, rate, and comment directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users. In addition, the company has also sped up the processing of mobile video uploads via email/mms.

PalmInfocenter has confirmed with a company spokesperson that Palm Inc. plans to close its retail stores. The move marks the latest cutback at Palm as it moves to make cost reductions and consolidate the company around its “core business initiatives.”

In a statement Palm says they made the decision to close the retail stores to “focus on consolidating more resources behind fewer programs in order to compete more effectively.” These same themes were discussed during the last conference call in which Palm’s CEO Ed Colligan said the company would be cutting back on anything non-essential throughout the origination.

A new editorial piece on the current state of the PDA market has been posted by 1src columnist Alan Grassia. Grassia’s piece begins with a brief history of the modern handheld (nee PDA/organizer) market before highlighting some of the more recent attempts at handheld devices that are essentially PDA-type machines that tout drastically different core functions and branding, such as the Sony’s recently refreshed Mylo line, Apple’s iPod Touch and the Nokia Internet Tablets. Of course, Hewlett Packard’s recent efforts to rekindle the market have seen two new iPaq units that pack about every conceivable feature into a classic PDA form factor as well as “Travel Companions” that are little more than conventional handhelds with gigs of internal storage and an emphasis on integrated GPS functionality. The editorial is relatively brief but manages to nicely summarize the short but tumultuous history of the PDA market as well as the feelings of the majority of “classic” Palm OS handheld fans who are desperately awaiting new product from Palm.