DataViz announced Documents To Go 9 for the Palm OS platform. Documents To Go is a mobile office suite which allows users to create, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as view Adobe PDF files on a mobile device. Version 9 has many new enhancements with the most significant being the addition of InTact Technology which ensures that all file formatting is kept intact when editing and emailing office files on a handheld or smartphone. Other new features include: An integrated file explorer, a new user interface, updates to Word To Go, Sheet To Go and Slideshow To Go.

Apple Computer warned that some of its latest iPods have shipped with a Windows virus. The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer than 25 reports of the problem, which it said does not affect other models of the media player, nor does it affect Macs. The company apologized on its Web site for the problem, but also used the opportunity to jab at Microsoft, its operating system rival.

Storage makers keep driving forward with plans for bigger and bigger hard disks. They say bigger is better. But can it be that sometimes bigger drives are too much of a good thing?

Have you ever wished for a backup brain–a device that could remember everything in your life from the smallest of details to your most memorable moments? Computer engineer Gordon Bell, a researcher for Microsoft Corp., is working on just such a mechanism. He’s trying to devise what amounts to a digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions of nearly everything in his life. There are two parts to the project. The first is Bell’s experiment with life storage — capturing his papers, faxes, phone calls, photographs and home movies in digitalized form. The second part focuses on developing software that would support this type of lifetime library on anyone’s computer.

Owners of the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone can now enjoy their favourite local TV shows on their phones wherever they are in the world. LocationFree from Sony redirects TV shows from your home television to target devices such as your P990, so you can keep up with your favourite programmes whether you’re on the beach, in an airport or just in your local park. You can watch live TV, playback recorded programmes and even set up future recordings, all on your P990.

Nordic communications provider Trigcom and global wireless innovator Research In Motion announced the launch of BlackBerry to customers in Norway. Trigcom is the first carrier to introduce the BlackBerry wireless platform in Norway. TrigCom will initially offer BlackBerry service on the BlackBerry 8700g handset, providing support for email, phone, text messaging, Internet, organizer and corporate data applications. The BlackBerry 8700g will operate on Trigcom’s GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks.

Orange Slovensko and Research In Motion have launched the BlackBerry in Slovakia. The BlackBerry solution allows both individual and business customers to stay connected to people and information while on the move. BlackBerry enables wireless access to email, phone, Internet, text messaging, organizer and corporate data applications from a single device with advanced security features and exceptional ease-of-use. Orange Slovensko is now offering the BlackBerry 8700f, a powerful quad-band handset that operates on the Orange Slovensko GSM/GPRS/EDGE network and delivers fast performance for Web browsing and other mobile applications.

Yahoo will begin showing news clips supplied by 16 CBS television stations scattered across the country, providing the Internet’s most trafficked Web site with another online video magnet. The deal with the CBS-owned stations comes a week after Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube. That 20-month-old startup has become a pop culture sensation by serving up a mix of homemade and copyrighted clips.

You can send a text message to cast your vote for an American Idol. You can send one to get registration forms to vote for president. Many teens and young adults “text” as a way to flirt or chat through a boring lecture. But there’s another side to the ubiquitous technology. A 14-year-old South Carolina girl used a text message to rescue herself from an earthen dungeon. And a 16-year-old used the cell phone she’d recently received as a birthday present to send a parting message to her family before a gunman in her Colorado school fatally shot her. A disgraced former lawmaker used IMs to flirt with underage congressional pages. Every day, millions of short messages fly through the ether cell-to-cell or between computers and cell phones. We use them to do our banking, to enter sweepstakes, answer polls, donate to charity. And as recent events have shown us, they can save lives–or do harm.

Transferring Internet content from a PC to your cell phone or PDA is about to get a whole lot easier. On Thursday, at Ziff Davis’ Digital Life consumer electronics trade show in New York, the Bluetooth SIG–a group that develops and approves various wireless technologies for the specification–announced the release of a new version of the technology, called “TransSend.” According to Michael Foley, executive director of Bluetooth SIG, the free client/server application will allow content such as maps, phone numbers, address cards or other text and image-based data from the Web to be transmitted directly to a specific user’s phone or PDA with one click.