PixSense recently announced the launch of its new solution that allows users to manage rich media created on their phone, directly from the handset. The solution simplifies the process of managing the media files created with camera phones–photos, videos, audio and text. PixSense offers consumers an inexpensive mobile media solution without the loss of quality. With just one click, users get automated photo and video-uploading, smart categorization, automatic memory management, intelligent image quality enhancement, personal publishing and sharing services (including phone-to-phone and phone-to-Web), storage, and full-featured galleries on both the Web and the phone.

Toshiba’s digital product division introduced the one-pound TDP-FF1AU digital light processing palm-sized multimedia projector for business and entertainment. The TDP-FF1AU projector is compatible with many mobile devices, such as mobile phones, portable DVD players, digital cameras, laptops, game consoles and USB memory sticks. About the size of a paperback book, the TDP-FF1AU is Toshiba’s first battery powered and portable projection system. The unit sells for about $699, and aims to provide mobile professionals, trainers, gamers, businesses and digital entertainment with a small enough unit to take on the road.

There have been many HMDs (Head Mounted Display) and video glasses and eyewear released for use with the iPod video but many are too expensive for the average consumer. 22Moo has partnered with one of the world’s largest HMD manufacturers to provide a sub $200 HMD dubbed the HMD800. The HMD800 provides a virtual 30-inch theater-like image with clear and exquisite detail. The 2.1-track Dolby surround-sound stereo earphone completes the experience of being at the theater. Designed by renowned experts in the field of ergonomics, the HMD800 can be easily adjusted to any head shape and size easily and comfortably.

Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he’d seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan–a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer. The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner–a level of complexity and sophistication that rivals some commercial software.

SplashID is a password manager with a built-in password generator. The developer claims it’s the #1 password manager, but we’re not big on hyperbole. How does it stand up to the tough standards of Contributing Editor Heather Wardell? You’ll have to read the article to find out.

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Reliable data transportation in an Internet-based mobile ad-hoc network is gaining importance because of the growing demands of mobile computing. In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht examines how you can maintain a reliable mobile ad-hoc network.

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Samsung Electronics has quietly launched two new versions of its Q1 ultra-mobile PC. One of the models has a faster processor and more hard-disk storage space than the model offered at launch, while the other is based on a processor from Via Technologies rather than Intel. Samsung didn’t make a formal announcement about the machines’ availability, but they were noted in its third-quarter earnings report released earlier this week.

Not only does Proporta provide cases and accessories–but also GPS technology–to turn your PDA/Smartphone into a satellite navigation system. Most worthy of note is the Proporta Solar Bluetooth GPS Receiver, which can pinpoint your exact location anywhere in the world–and send a wireless signal to your PDA/Smartphone or other mobile computer.

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before–to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. In this first successful experiment, researchers from the United States and England were able to cloak a copper cylinder. It’s like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

LG Electronics unveiled a new handset model aimed at repeating the success of its premium Chocolate phone. The company said on Tuesday it sold 16.5 million mobile phones in the third quarter, up from 15.3 million in the second, with margins in handset also swinging back into the black.