Agendus for Windows Mobile version 2 incorporates a year of product design, development and user feedback around its first iteration which marked our entry in the Windows Mobile world. It brings in a variety of new features and numerous improvements making it suitable to both the first time users, thanks to its “out of the box” set of defaults and ease of use, as well as to the most demanding users, which are welcome to dwelve into its straightforward yet powerful customization options.

Most noticeable added features are four brand new calendar views, including a Week Grid View, Month Expanded View, two Quarter Views, two Daily views including the handy Agenda Split View. Another major point of focus has been usability, now translating into seamless one-handed navigation capabilities, which WM5 Smartphone/WM6 Standard users will particularly enjoy. Finally, the product’s user interface underwent a complete rehaul, and now sports a glassy 3D look, smoothly blending into the latest Windows Mobile 6 themes.

Palm and PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk (XL) announced the Treo 500v smartphone on the XL network in Indonesia. The Treo 500v, with the new and exclusive Vodafone user interface running on Windows Mobile 6 Standard edition, delivers unparalleled usability and ease of navigation to customers who want to keep on top of their work and social lives while on the go. It combines multiple forms of communication and multimedia capabilities with high-speed 3G/UMTS mobile Internet capabilities, allowing users to access popular Web sites. The Treo 500v has a full keyboard, large screen, audio- and video-streaming capabilities, comprehensive multimessaging functionality (Instant Messaging, SMS and email), phone and personal-information-management software in a new design.

Electric Pocket announced the availability of the new FlipSide music player for BlackBerry smartphones (8100 series, 8300 series and 8800 series). FlipSide delivers a uniquely designed music player for BlackBerry smartphones that allows users to visually shuffle through their music quickly and easily. Early users have been impressed with the attractive user interface that makes FlipSide both visually enjoyable and very easy to use. One of the most popular features is the ability to “swoosh” through the full-color cover art of an entire music collection within seconds using the BlackBerry smartphone trackball.

FlipSide downloads and displays each album’s cover art and even links to FlipSide Extras to provide biographies of the artists, recommendations for similar artists and more. Flipside plays music in MP3, WMA, M4A and AAC formats, and allows users to create their own playlist, bringing their favorite tunes quickly to hand. FlipSide retails for $19.95 and a free trial download is available now from the FlipSide Web site.

In mid-July, as Palm Inc. was putting the finishing touches on its new $99 Centro smartphone, the gadget’s development team received a stark message: It wasn’t good enough. The warning was delivered by Jon Rubinstein, a former top Apple Inc. executive who this year joined Palm as executive chairman with a directive from Palm Chief Executive Ed Colligan to shake up the struggling smartphone maker.

Palm, which helped originate the smartphone earlier this decade, has been straining to get back on the right track after stumbling against hipper competitors. Although he officially joined Palm in October, he’s been on-site since July and putting in 70-hour weeks, say people familiar with the matter. Alongside Mr. Colligan, he has cleaned up the company’s product plans, overhauled its engineering staff, and made several strategic new hires.

Someone somewhere seems to have enabled VoIP calling on the iPod Touch. Hopefully you can make more out of this blog posting than I can.

Security predictions released by Arbor Networks reveals that the iPhone will be a major target for cybercriminals in 2008. The forecast also highlights Chinese specific crime as a major issue for the New Year.

Arbor’s Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT), who have put together the forecasts, believe that the iPhone will become the victim of a serious attack in 2008. These assaults are likely to be in the form of drive by attacks–malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone’s Web browser. With the scrutiny the iPhone has received since its launch earlier this year over network lock-in, ASERT believes that hackers will be enticed by the possibility of attacking Apple users and the opportunity to “be the first” to hack a new platform.

Dataviz is having a 40% off sale on the mobile Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync. The regular price of $49.99 has been reduced to $29.99. This limited time offer runs now through December 31, 2007.

Spb Software House has released Spb Wallet 1.5, a secure and manageable storage of sensitive information. Pocket PC and Smartphone users can safely keep passport and account numbers, access and PIN codes, logins and passwords in Spb Wallet, access the data from desktop PCs, and have it synchronized among multiple mobile devices. Spb Wallet puts an end to keeping the most sensitive information exposed on SIM-cards, in address books, and in text files.

Those MP3 and AAC files that you’ve ripped from your CD collection are still “unauthorized copies” in the eyes of the recording industry. In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PC owned by a file-sharing defendant who had admitted to ripping them himself were “unauthorized copies.”

Palm and Movistar launched the Treo 750 smartphone in Peru, the first Windows Mobile based Treo smartphone to take advantage of Movistar’s network in Peru.

The Treo 750 combines a multifeatured mobile phone with email, messaging, Web browsing and organization software all in a compact design. The new smartphone has UMTS/HSDPA (High-speed Download Packet Access) capability and comes with Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for Windows Mobile 5.0, which gives users connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server fast, automatic and secure wireless updates of their email, calendar items, contacts and tasks. Also, customers that purchase the Treo 750 today can later upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.