Buffalo has introduced the latest addition to its line of sophisticated LinkTheater multimedia devices, the Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless-A&G Media Player. The new LinkTheater is amongst the first multimedia devices designed to work with Intel Viiv technology–an innovative new PC platform. Powered by Mediabolic’s Media Player software and the Philips Nexperia media processor, the Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless-A&G Media Player enables consumers to unlock and stream personal and premium content from their Intel Viiv technology-based PCs to other rooms in the house. Its intuitive TV-based user interface lets consumers browse their favorite music, photo, and video files, and access a wide variety of Internet-driven applications via a remote control.

Amena and Research In Motion have introduced the BlackBerry 8700g in Spain. The BlackBerry 8700g features a highly optimized device platform with 64 MB of flash memory, 16 MB of SDRAM and an Intel XScale cellular processor to enable significantly faster Web browsing, application performance and attachment viewing as well as larger application and data storage. The BlackBerry 8700g is ideal for customers who want a lightweight, all-in-one device with best-in-class performance for email, phone, Web browsing, organizer and other corporate data applications.

Scientific Component has released GPS ToolKit.NET Mobile, bringing a ..NET Compact Framework version of its GPS ToolKit.NET product to Pocket PC and Windows Mobile applications. GPS ToolKit.NET Mobile provides software developers with an API for communicating with many types of GPS units, including RS232 and Bluetooth devices. It provides access to real-time position, speed, course, satellite, navigation data and more. Additionally, GPS ToolKit.NET Mobile provides the ability to automatically detect GPS units, transfer waypoints, add routes, and download tracks from many Garmin GPS devices, including the eTrex and GPS III series.

Here’s some news that might get you to sit straight up in your chair: along with the majority of the computer-facing population, you could be well on your way to developing a series of unsavory repetitive stress ailments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, postural syndrome, tendonitis and eye strain. In the worst-case scenario, you could lose the ability to tell hot from cold, find yourself dropping things or develop a syndrome known as “foot drop,” in which pressure on the sciatic nerve can cause a foot to drag while you walk. eWEEK picked the brains of a slew of ergonomics and other posture professionals, who all voiced the sobering truth that human beings were not designed to fold themselves into computer workstations each day. But, they weren’t all gloom and doom–they also suggested simple adjustments workers can make to save themselves from a lifetime of aching backs and sore necks.

When a small group crowds around a personal computer to work on a project, there’s often considerable shuffling for a good view of the monitor and control of the mouse or keyboard. A new technology from Mitsubishi aims to make such collaboration easier by borrowing some ideas from a common piece of furniture: the table. Mitsubishi’s DiamondTouch displays a PC screen on a high-tech tabletop. People sitting around it use their fingers to create and manipulate projected virtual objects, with the system knowing whose fingers did what thanks to small currents of electricity that flow through the chairs.

O2 and Research In Motion announced the first launch of the new BlackBerry 7130g in the UK. The BlackBerry 7130g provides the perfect balance of performance, design and function for users who prefer traditional phone-style designs. Building on the popularity of the BlackBerry 7100x from O2, the BlackBerry 7130g is a slim, lightweight handset that elegantly integrates some of the industry’s most advanced hardware and software in a stylish candy bar form factor, providing support for push-based email, phone, text messaging, web functionality, intranet access and organizer applications.

Six Apart is set to start letting users test a new blogging platform named Vox. Vox, currently known by its code name “Comet,” is a free, hosted blogging service. It is Six Apart’s fourth blogging platform, following Moveable Type, LiveJournal and TypePad, which combined have over 30 million users worldwide, according to the company.

NewsGator announced the availability of NewsGator Enterprise Server 1.3, the latest version of its RSS aggregation and distribution platform. The new server offers SharePoint Team Portal integration, group clippings, better article and feed searching, and feed creation from email.

Six European mobile phone operators have decided to halve wholesale roaming fees in a move that will lead to substantial cuts in costs for end-users, T-Mobile, the mobile phone arm of Deutsche Telekom has announced. T-Mobile, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telenor, TeliaSonera and Wind, which together have around 200 million mobile phone customers, “have agreed to cap the average wholesale rates they offer each other for providing roaming services… by around half,” T-Mobile said in a statement.

A sneak peek suggests ultraportables from HP and Lenovo may challenge earlier thin notebook offerings. Hewlett-Packard’s new ultraportable, the $1,599 HP Compaq nc2400, boasts a bright, 12.1-inch screen and weighs 3.6 pounds. Meanwhile, the Lenovo 3000 v100 laptop could provide serious competition to Lenovo’s own ThinkPad X60s in some markets. Sporting a 12-inch wide screen and weighing in at 4.4 pounds, the $1,649 Lenovo 3000 v100 has a six-cell extended battery and a built-in DVD+R dual-layer DVD burner.