Sanyo’s new A5505SA 3G mobile phone will feature Spatializer Audio Laboratories’ Spatializer ((environ)) technology. Spatializer ((environ)) creates an enveloping sound stage from ring tones or Internet music for low-power, mobile applications.

Researchers at the Lausanne Polytechnic University in Switzerland have developed a mechanical octopus. Moving much like an octopus skims the sea floor, the Octopus rolls along on eight wheels with infrared sensors embedded in each one to detect obstacles.

Exploits have begun popping up for a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw that affects Windows. Security experts say the SSL Bomb exploit code could lead to widespread denial-of-service attacks by blocking SSL connections on machines running Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Two new research reports find that email spoofing attacks are on a steep rise. One of those reports says that businesses in the financial services sector appear to be most vulnerable to having their corporate identities hijacked.

Democrats are challenging the Bush administration’s overtime pay overhaul, saying many white-collar workers will lose premium pay despite election-year promises that the effects will be minimal.

A great deal of information has leaked out over the past few months about an upcoming iPAQ that will offer three different forms of wireless networking: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GSM/GPRS. Now, even more details of the iPAQ h6300 series have emerged.

Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has signed a deal with Symbol Technologies to roll out 28,000 mobile devices, based on specifications agreed by the two companies, across its European and North American operations.

A Burton Group report suggests that enterprise networks, and the data they safeguard, may be at risk because of unsecured mobile devices.

A security researcher has developed a new attack for a well-known flaw in the TCP protocol that allows an attacker to effectively shut down targeted routers and terminate existing TCP sessions at will.

Researchers have set a data transmission record over the Internet2’s high-speed backbone. The record, announced Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting in Arlington, Va., was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 kilometers at an average speed of 6.25 gigabits per second.