ATP Electronics announced the release of the SD Trio Professional Plus flash card, the world’s most consumer friendly flash storage product allowing for full high speed compatibility with all three SecureDigital formats (microSD, miniSD, and SD) and USB in a single package. The ATP SD Trio Professional Plus gives consumers the freedom to use a single memory storage device for all their SD devices, along with the convenience of a USB interface for direct data transfer to and from a PC.

Mobile phones costing less than $15 will be available in developing countries by 2008, Motorola Chairman David Brown has predicted. If handsets can be delivered that cheaply, it could lead to another 100 million people a year getting their first phones, he said. The thrifty price tag on the handsets is partly because of chip manufacturers’ commitments to supply inexpensive silicon components, Brown said.

Sony said it plans to start selling the world’s lightest notebook computer in December in Japan, in a bid to boost its presence among business users. Weighing 898 grams, Sony’s “type G” Vaio computer will be the lightest laptop PC, and comes with a 12.1-inch liquid crystal display screen.

Microsoft on Wednesday released Windows Embedded CE 6.0, a new version of the operating system geared for computing devices such as mobile phones or consumer electronics. The new version supports voice and data networking using cell phone networks, something the company believes will be useful for building networking abilities into parking meters, vending machines or GPS navigation devices. The new version also is well suited to networked video projectors and set-top boxes, Microsoft said. In addition, the Platform Builder programming tools for creating embedded software now have a plug-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 Professional software.

In a decision viewed as a boost for wireless networks even beyond airports, federal regulators on Wednesday ruled that the Massachusetts Port Authority cannot block a Wi-Fi access point in the Continental Airlines lounge at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The Federal Communications Commission concluded that under a decade-old set of rules governing over-the-air reception devices, or OTARD, the world’s No. 5 airline was well within its bounds to provide the free service.

Palm announced the Treo 750v smartphone in New Zealand, the first Treo smartphone to take advantage of Vodafone’s 3G/UMTS network. The Treo 750v offers the Palm experience on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0.

It appears that Dell is ready to start offering an AMD-based notebook. Although no formal announcement was made Nov. 1 by the PC maker, Dell’s Web site displayed the Inspiron 1501 notebook, offering customers a chance to order the notebook with Advanced Micro Devices’ Turion 64 X2 dual-core processors. Dell also offers notebooks with AMD’s Sempron processor. Two of the Inspiron notebooks offer AMD’s Turion 64 MK-36 processor–a single-core chip that runs at 2.0GHz.

Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. “Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million,” he said.

Apple Computer said that though it missed its originally planned October launch date for its second-generation iPod shuffle, it will release the product on Nov. 3. At half the size and weight of the original iPod shuffle, the 1GB, aluminum-bodied device is the smallest iPod Apple offers. It doesn’t have a screen for viewing content, but it does include a clip for attaching to belts or other pieces of clothing, as well as an increase in battery life to 12 hours.

A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and not where prosecutors claim he was. After a stormy divorce between Erin McRae and Everett Eugene Russell, a judge granted McRae a protective order requiring her ex-husband to stay away from her residence. Upon being accused of violating that protection order, Russell claimed he was surfing the Web that morning, checking on an IRS income tax return and shopping online at Home Depot’s and Lowe’s Web sites. He made a disk showing the Web sites that he had visited on Feb. 26, 2005, and the cookies on the disk indicated that he was on the IRS Web site at 10:29 am CST. The disk also indicated that Russell was online from 10:29 am to 11 am and again at 1:04 pm. But prosecutors argued that the cookie file could have been altered, and a jury agreed.