At CTIA Wireless in Atlanta today, Handmark officially announced, Handmark Express, a mobile Internet content solution first demonstrated at the PalmSource Developers Conference in February.

Handmark Express is a wireless information service for Palm OS smartphones, including palmOne's Treo 600, and Wi-Fi enabled PDAs, such as the Tungsten C, as well as Windows Mobile-based smartphones and wireless Pocket PCs.

As an Internet client application, data is delivered to the PDA or smartphone via assigned categories and is formatted to fit and be useful on small handheld displays. It offers news, market data, weather, sports scores, maps and directions, directory lookups, movie times and ticket purchases via a channel metaphor. The company claims Express is faster and easier to use than searching for data with standard mobile browsers.

The service costs $6.99 per month and will be available at retail with a prepaid one-year subscription for $69.90.

In related news, Handmark, has joined PalmSource's Palm Powered Mobile World program as an infrastructure charter partner. According to PalmSource, the Palm Powered Mobile World aims to connects mobile operators, infrastructure and middleware partners and application developers to bring Palm OS software solutions to market and provide a superior user experience for Palm OS smartphones.