Proporta has announced its latest accessories for the highly anticipated HP iPAQ hw6900 series. These products are ready to ship and so could even beat your device to your doorstep. First up is the Proporta Aluminum-lined Leather Case, featuring a unique “Screen Saver System,” consisting of a sheet of rigid, lightweight aluminum embedded within the leather offering the ultimate protection to the screen of your device. The Proporta Aluminum Case is precision molded from aircraft grade aluminum and has a protective lining of neoprene to ensure a snug fit for your device. The hard case provides a protective covering for your device whilst keeping its sleek and stylish looks. A removable belt clip is included. Proporta’s Crystal Case is the ideal case for those who want to protect their device without covering it up. The clear case allows your device to remain visible at all times, yet your device is still given the high level of protection it needs. The screen of your device is even accessible in the case, simply lift the screen covering up to allow you to use the stylus without removing the device from the case. The Proporta Silicone Case acts as a second skin to protect your device from damage caused from impact and scratching. The rubberized case helps you to grip the iPAQ hw6900 and is slim enough to fit in your pocket.

WuYuYo is a downloadable travel guide and interpreter software for Pocket PC, meant to ease oral exchanges between foreign and Chinese speakers during business or tourism trips to or from China, and more specifically when staying in Beijing. WuYuYo offers more than 900 useful phrases and sentences and additional facilities so as to make communication in a foreign language swift and easy.

Optus and Research In Motion introduced the BlackBerry 7130g, a sleek and stylish BlackBerry device in a traditional phone form factor, and announced enhancements to Optus’ offering of the BlackBerry Internet Service in Australia. Available through Optus distribution channels at the end of June, the BlackBerry 7130g features an optimized device platform with an Intel processor and 64 MB of flash memory. The new handset gives users a fast and responsive experience when browsing the web or running mobile applications.

Taiwan Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch BlackBerry in Taiwan during the summer. For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise, and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.

Telstra and Research In Motion announced plans to launch the latest BlackBerry handset in Australia. Operating on Telstra’s powerful network, the quad-band EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 7130g is a stylish, slim and light device that integrates some of the industry’s most advanced hardware and software in a traditional phone form factor. The BlackBerry 7130g incorporates RIM’s SureType keyboard technology, which merges a phone keypad with a familiar QWERTY keyboard to allow a narrower design and enable users to quickly and accurately type messages without needing to learn a new keyboard layout.

BoxWave’s Armor Case is a form-fitting, aluminum metal case that is designed to protect your Acer n35 from everyday wear and tear. Its exterior is made of anodized aluminum that is strong yet lightweight while the interior is padded with a layer of foam for optimal security. Armor Case has accessible openings that give quick access to headphone jack, memory slot, and charging/synchronization port. Armor Case is also designed with one SD card holder.

A private security company has found a way to nuke the controversial callback component in Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool. Firewall Leak Tester, a company that provides tools to test the quality of personal firewall software, has released a utility called RemoveWGA that blocks Microsoft from “phoning home” from Windows PCs on a daily basis. “Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot,” the company said in a note explaining its motive for releasing the tool.

DataViz announced that RoadSync, its Exchange ActiveSync client, is now available for S60 3rd Edition devices, including Nokia’s new E-Series and N-Series smartphones. Based on the Exchange ActiveSync protocol licensed from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 for a variety of mobile devices. With the addition of this newly supported platform, DataViz’ RoadSync is now available for five of the most popular mobile platforms: S60 3rd Edition, UIQ, Series 80, Palm OS and Java MIDP 2.0. Support for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition is also planned for later this year.

Royal Philips Electronics will begin making mobile personal navigation systems to tap into the growing popularity of the devices, the Dutch technology conglomerate said Tuesday. Three Philips devices, to launch from September to October and start at $500, will compete directly with those of Dutch navigation device maker TomTom International. Philips said in a statement that the devices will weigh 160 grams. They will obtain map data from former Philips subsidiary Navteq.

In the past week, the count of high-profile Microsoft veterans who are either leaving the Redmond software coop (or being pushed involuntarily) has been mounting. The latest addition to the departure list is Ted Hase, one of the four original Xbox team members and co-creator of the Microsoft Media Center PC concept.