Palm, Inc. (http://www.palm.com) and Research in Motion (http://www.rim.com/) (RIM) have announced an agreement to bring Blackberry Connect (http://www.blackberry.com/products/licensing/connect/palmOS.shtml) to the Palm Treo 650 and future Treo smartphones starting in early 2006. From the press release (http://www.palm.com/us/company/pr/news_feed_story.epl?reqid=768097):

Through RIM's BlackBerry Connect licensing program, Palm will enable its Treo 650 and future Palm OS(R) based Treo smartphones with secure, push-based wireless email via BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM). The solution will enable the following:

-- push-based email using BlackBerry Connect with Palm's VersaMail(R) email client;

-- support for Microsoft(R) Exchange and IBM Lotus(R) Domino(TM);

-- wireless calendar synchronization;

-- remote address lookup of corporate email directory;

-- convenient email-attachment viewing;

-- Triple DES encryption; and

-- IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping email and PIM data from a device in the event it is lost or stolen).