Omega One has won the prestigious Pocket PC Magazine award for it's today screen plug-in Battery Pack 2004. Joining it as a short listed finalist was Journal Bar. Omega One's products were selected from thousands of Pocket PC products this year.

"We are honored that Pocket PC Magazine should choose Battery Pack 2004.", said John Wade, Omega One's Business Development manager, "Battery Pack 2004 continues to show why it remains "The Only PPC Utility you will ever need" by receiving this award at the recent Pocket PC Summit held in Las Vegas."

For more information, see Pocket PC Magazine's awards site.

Journal Bar has been voted by Handango customers as their favorite wireless software.

Battery Pack came a close second, and was in the top ten in 4 of the 7 People's Choice categories.

For more information, see Handango's People Choice Awards site.

Omega One Announces Major Update to Journal Bar
The best selling Pocket PC Application Gets a Major Update
- John Wade

Omega One today announced a major update and release of one of its best selling applications, Journal Bar, to Version 2.0. Journal Bar provides users with local weather, TV, movies, news and stock information right on the Today screen of their Pocket PC. Journal Bar allows the user to gather information from a number of news and information channels around the world.

This top selling application has been made even more compelling with a number of changes in Version 2.0. These include increased speed and reliability of the connection and an increased number of sources that can be accessed and displayed. Weather reports are available from over 117 countries and 600 cities. The number of news sources that can be accessed has also been increased with over 90 news sections for 20 countries in 12 languages. In addition users can also access their daily horoscope.

Omega One has also released an Expansion Pack for Journal Bar Version 2.0 that gives users access to even more sources of news and information and increases the available news sources to over 200 in 11 languages. For those interested in the weather in a variety of locations up to 5 separate weather reports can be displayed when using Expansion Pack.

In addition Omega One has also updated its top selling application, Battery Pack, to Battery Pack 2004, including support for the iPAQ 4100 series and adding a new “tiny” view to its popular Battery Bar feature.

Omega One releases major new version of Battery Pack 2003
- John Wade

Battery Pack is the leading utility application for Pocket PCs and continues to meet its goal of being “The Only Pocket PC Utility You Will Ever Need.” The new version of Battery Pack updates several of the wide range of essential utilities not included as part of the Windows CE operating system. These include:
· Battery Bar - providing detailed information on remaining battery life
· Program Bar - up to 60 program shortcuts right on your Today screen
· Power Clean - reclaim space by removing unwanted files automatically
· Power Task - Speed up performance by closing slowly running programs
· Power Bars - Battery, memory & storage card information viewable from any program
· Power Alert - Customize your alerts for more control of your alarms
· Power Adjust - Alter system settings like Cleartype, fonts and time on the title bar
· Power Store - Provides detailed battery, memory and storage card information
· Power Light - Allows you to use your Pocket PC as a flashlight
Added to Battery Pack are our latest features Power Task, Power Bars and Power Alerts allowing much more control over task and alert management functions. The Power Task button functionality can be reversed, so tapping it closes a program, tap & hold minimizes it. Power Bars allow your Pocket PCs vital statistics to be displayed on the title bar, so they can be viewed from any program. The Power Alerts, which provide customizable alerting capabilities, is also proving popular with initial users.