Light Affection turns your favorite photos into glowing works of art. Each piece is custom designed using a process inspired by the French tradition known as lithophanes, a porcelain engraving that comes alive when illuminated from behind. Unlit, the unfinished piece looks like a beautiful marble carving. Turn the lamp or nightlight on and the image gently glows, creating a stunning one-of-a-kind piece of illuminated art. There is no actual photo in the lamp, just a highly detailed illusion that will not fade away.

T-Mobile said it will start to sell a mobile phone with computer-like features and WiFi. The phone, from Taiwan’s HTC, runs on a Microsoft operating system and has a minicomputer-like keyboard designed to make it easier for consumers to use the phone for emailing. The phone, branded the T-Mobile Dash, will go on sale on October 25 for $199 after rebates to people who sign two-year contracts. It is part of T-Mobile’s bid to boost revenues by getting more customers to use phones for more than talking.

PalmSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of mobile-software maker Access, announced plans on Thursday to change its name. The company, which develops an operating system that runs on Palm devices, will soon go by its owner’s name, Access. The name change transition for PalmSource comes more than a year after it entered an agreement with PalmOne, in which the mobile-device hardware maker would retain the rights to the Palm name. The deal allowed PalmOne to drop the “One” from its name, while PalmSource would have certain Palm trademark rights up to four years.

The Proporta site has been completely re-designed–the same quality Proporta products, but in a fresh and tidy environment. If you’re feeling in a playful mood, search for the animal hiding behind one of Proporta’s products for the chance to enter into the prize draw for a FREE Proporta Mobility Bundle of your choice. There are a total of 5 bundles to give away.

Cingular Wireless said it filed three lawsuits in a U.S. federal court against telemarketers to stop them from making unsolicited and illegal calls to Cingular customers. Cingular is seeking injunctions and damages in all the three lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. In recent months U.S. telecom providers have filed multiple lawsuits against companies they believe are infringing on their customers privacy. Other cases include the sale of customer call records by investigators.

Palm announced that it expects to bring online 20 carriers for its fourth new smartphone platform. The four platforms enable a significant expansion of Palm’s customer base and geographic reach. The fourth new smartphone–the Treo 680 smartphone–was announced at DigitalLife. It is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone that delivers the Palm experience on Palm OS and in a new design that features an internal antenna and slimmer body.

For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm announced the Treo 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone. Customers will find the Treo 680 smartphone easy to use, slim and compact, yet packed full of features beyond its stellar phone capability, such as email, Web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts and more. In the coming weeks and months, carriers around the world will announce additional product details, availability and exact pricing. Palm’s U.S. retail and online stores will sell exclusively an unlocked GSM version in four new cool colors–crimson, copper, arctic and graphite. For a limited time, they will come complete with a music bundle from Yahoo!, which includes a 30-day free trial to its music service.

Sony Ericsson has announced an online promotional space for breaking new and developing artists called M-BUZZ. Music fans will have access to artwork, ringtones and artist information using the PlayNow over-the-air download service on Sony Ericsson mobile phones and the M-BUZZ Web site in over 20 markets globally. M-BUZZ will initially showcase a limited number of artists and bands from Sony ATV Music publishing each month, hand picked from a worldwide roster starting with Kish Mauve, Embassy, Dirty Perfect, FKLV, Iggy, The Head Set and Bobby Kray.

If you don’t like what your favorite Internet search engine or e-commerce site does with information it collects about you, your options are limited to living with it or logging off. Major search engines, for instance, all keep records of your searches for weeks, months or even years, often tied to your computer’s Internet address or more. Retailers, meanwhile, generally presume the right to send marketing emails. Although online companies have become better at disclosing data practices, privacy advocates say the services’ stated policies generally don’t give consumers real choice.

YouTube’s enormous popularity has created a big headache for another “utube”–a company that sells used machines that make tubes. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment’s Web site, utube.com, was inaccessible for most of the week, overwhelmed by millions of people looking for the popular online video site. The confusion took off a couple of months ago, said Ralph Girkins, Universal Tube’s president.