Oh boy! Here we go again. Another senior government official has had his BlackBerry stolen by another foreign intelligence agency. But this time, it’s not an American official. According to the U.K.’s The Sunday Times a senior aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had his BlackBerry stolen by Chinese intelligence agents while on a trip to China.

Heather Wardell takes her Treo everywhere she goes, and she often wants to listen to music in coffee shops or in her car. The Treo came with a free copy of Pocket Tunes version 3 by NormSoft, which was quite functional, but Pocket Tunes Deluxe version 4 and its Internet radio and online music store access is a giant step forward. To learn all about it, you’ll want to read this review. How was support? Does Internet radio work over a Treo? The only way you’ll find out is to read Heather’s article.

Welcome back for round three of my podcasting series. My first article showed you how to plan a successful podcast. My second article suggested some digital devices for recording your podcast. Now, all you need to prepare your recording for primetime is Audacity. Not chutzpah — although possessing some never hurt anyone — but Audacity, a freeware, open-source, sound-editing program available for Macs, Windows, and Unix computers.

If you’re serious about podcasting, you’ll need to record your broadcast. In this very helpful article, Jorge Sosa discusses different podcasting recorders and which one worked best for him.

Are cable television companies purposely or inadvertently sabotaging their customers’ TiVo installations? This question came to mind a few weeks ago when our local cable company performed an "upgrade" that virtually disabled TiVo personal video recorders. In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz explores that question as the basis for a case study on industry flexibility. He also looks at specific solutions for problems being encountered, and possible solutions for the industry as a whole.

Earlier this year, Jorge Sosa decided to gingerly dip his toes into the podcasting pool. Several months into this experiment, he feels he can safely tell anyone who’s podcast-curious to come on in — the water’s fine. If you need a little help getting started, read on and he’ll share what’s worked and what hasn’t.

In this all-new book review shootout, we put two books to the test. Read on to learn how iPhone Open Application Development by Jonathan Zdziarski, and Switching to the Mac by David Pogue stand up to our editorial review.

A few months ago, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz was invited to give the Saturday afternoon keynote address at the 31st Annual Independent Computer Consultants Association National Conference in Washington, D.C. With all the work he’d done on White House email, it seemed appropriate to address some of the nation’s leading computer consultants in the cradle of our democracy. This is his trip report

How can you secure your enterprise’s mobile phones? In this interesting article, Mike Temporale discusses some options that take security responsibilities away from the end-users and give them to the IT staff.

Most Palm software is reasonably inexpensive, but you can’t get less expensive than free. Some of Heather Wardell’s favorite programs are given away by their creators, and this article will list ten of these programs in the hopes they might work for you as well.