Direct from Alex Kac: First, we have the announcement that Pocket Informant 8.5 was released today with many improvements in Smartphone and Pocket PC editions. We have some major improvements in the Calendar, Tasks View, Missions, and Contacts and it is now available as a free upgrade to all Pocket Informant 8.x owners. Version 8.5 of Pocket Informant is a mature PIM on Windows Mobile and most of our major improvements have been focusing on ease of use, improving the basic usability in finger touch modes, stylus, and one-handed usage scenarios. We don't want  just cram more features in. Some areas like Journal and Events Views received a lot of attention. Furthermore as a limited time special promotion we are selling Pocket Informant for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile at $16.95 - our regular upgrade price!

Just visit <http://www.PocketInformant.com/pocketinformant> for Windows Mobile to upgrade or take advantage of the current pricing or <http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=pocketinformant_bb> for BlackBerry. While you are at our site, take a look at the PDA Essentials Editor's Choice Review of Pocket Informant: <http://www.pocketinformant.com/graphics/ads/078-079_PDAE_80.pdf>