Sanyo Energy announced the eneloop Rechargeable Battery Kit and eneloop USB Rechargeable Travel Kit are now available in SkyMall catalog and SkyMall.com. eneloop represents the next evolution in batteries, one where a rechargeable battery is used like an alkaline battery and is ready for use immediately after purchase. SkyMall, the catalog featuring high quality and innovative products, offers the eneloop Rechargeable Battery Kit for $34.99 and the eneloop USB Rechargeable Travel Kit for $19.99.

With the eneloop Rechargeable Battery Kit, each battery can be used up to 1,000 times before being replaced. The eneloop batteries are pre-charged, ready to use right out of the package and retain up to 85% of their charge for up to one year. The eneloop USB Rechargeable Travel Kit allows you to recharge your batteries directly from your laptop. The eneloop USB Rechargeable Travel Kit includes one eneloop NiMh battery charger and two AA eneloop rechargeable batteries (also fits NiMh rechargeable AAA).

Purosol, the enzyme-based cleaner that will NOT harm delicate coatings or surfaces and creates protective anti-static shield without harsh chemicals that harm lenses, screens or the environment, is now available in a 16oz. bottle. The first two products to debut in the new 16oz. trigger spray bottle will be Purosol Plasma and Purosol Sport/Marine.

Purosol Plasma is specifically designed to safely clean the millions of LCD, plasma, CRT and OLED screens used in televisions, laptops, computers, iPods, PSPs and other consumer devices on the market. Utilizing the cutting-edge Purosol formula, Plasma uses its unique molecular properties to not only clean the screen, but neutralize static charge created by the screen, allowing the screen to stay clean longer.

Designed to breakdown organic salts, Purosol Sport/Marine is a heartier formula, designed expressly for outdoor settings where moisture, airborne contaminants and other dirt can have a deleterious affect on sensitive and expensive electronics; such as the coated lenses on camping equipment, or the sensitive screens found on handheld GPS devices or depth finders, chart plotters, radar screens or other equipment commonly found on boats. Frequent use can also help prevent the build-up of salts and other natural grunge that are common in an outdoor or marine environment.

If we could go back in time — even “just” twenty-five years ago — we’d see a world of difference in comparison to the technology of today. Brenda Coxe takes on a short run down memory lane to help us gain perspective about our increasingly mobilized world.

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Not long ago, mobile ad-hoc networks were introduced as a technology which can support data communication in places where it’s normally not possible to do so. Ideally, this type of networking is as an asset for network formation in areas which are affected because of some natural disaster, such as an earthquake or flooding. This article by Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht show you how mobile ad-hoc networks can be deployed to network various rescue workers working in an affected area.

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More capacity and fast transfer speeds are the chief benefits of the SanDisk Extreme III 8GB SDHC (SD High-Capacity) flash memory card, which was introduced by SanDisk. This and other imaging products from SanDisk will be displayed at the PhotoPlus 2007 International Conference & Expo at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

The 8GB SDHC card will be packaged with a SanDisk MicroMate USB 2.0 Reader–a $20 value–so that users have a one-stop solution for capturing, storing and transferring their images. The bundled card and reader are expected to ship within the next 30 days to U.S. retailers at a suggested price of $179.99. It will also be available in Europe.

Wayfinder announced that a pre-installed free map application and voice guiding Wayfinder Navigator upgrade will be available for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, announced by Nokia at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, USA.

The pre-installed free map application means that N810 users get a quick and handy pocket map where one can position oneself on the map and see the direction and distance to any chosen location. Users can even browse detailed street maps and search for locations like addresses, Wi-Fi hotspots and points of interests (POIs) and take advantage of associated Web links and dynamic information. The map application includes access to free of charge world-wide maps–available and downloadable directly to the Nokia device.

In an apparent about-face, Apple will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company’s Web site Wednesday. Apple infuriated developers and some iPhone users when it issued a software update Sept. 27 that disabled unofficial programs installed on the handsets.

Until Wednesday, Apple had tried to control which applications consumers had on their iPhones. Now, Jobs said the company intends to release a software development kit in February that will let coders create applications to work directly on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The Touch is the new iPod portable player that resembles the iPhone but lacks the function of a cell phone.

PhatWare announced the release of Pocket dbExplorer 3.0, an advanced database management utility for Microsoft Windows-based mobile devices. Pocket dbExplorer is a system utility that allows users to manage Windows Mobile system and application databases that contain vital device information such as system settings, contacts and appointment lists, emails, etc. While applications like Pocket Outlook allow limited access to some information stored in these databases, only Pocket dbExplorer provides the direct access to this information.

Novel Games has released 76 Flash games for the Nintendo Wii. The games are all small, casual games that come from a variety of categories like puzzle games, action games and sports games etc. And as always, all the games released by Novel Games are healthy and family safe.

To play the games all you need is to use the Internet channel of the Wii and then you can start playing right the way. The games are all free and you do not need to pay anything to play the games. New games will be added once every few days so you will always have new games to play. All the games include a global high scores table so that you can compete with players around the world.

Handmark announced at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London a new version of the Pocket Express mobile service. Pocket Express was developed by Handmark in native Symbian C++ specifically for S60 Third Edition on Symbian OS, and will be featured on Nokia E-series and N-series handsets.

A suite of premium services is also provided in this new release of Pocket Express for Symbian OS, including updates from global financial markets, flight status for more than 75,000 international destinations from over 3,500 airports, cinema show times throughout the UK, and fast access to the authoritative New Oxford Dictionary of English and companion Oxford Thesaurus. Pocket Express combines these services with the world’s first mobile live personal assistant, MobileCierge. With one tap, customers can speak to a live assistant who can help solve almost any personal, travel, medical, or emergency-related request anywhere in the world.