WebIS Money is a mid-level finance application for the Pocket PC. Its purpose is to be simple, easy to use, and accurate for everyday checkbook activities. It does all the basics, including multiple accounts, categorized transactions, and transaction reconciliation as well as more advanced functions like Pie charts and Bar charts of your expenses. Furthermore with version 2.2, Money now provides multiple wallets, multiple currencies, and support for Windows Mobile 5.0.

The new release of Handmark Pocket Express now offers free news, sports, and weather to smartphone and handheld users. The service still offers movie showtimes, 411 directory search, street level maps and turn-by-turn driving directions for an additional subscription fee. Thanks to its intuitive PageOne interface, users can access content using a fraction of the clicks required by mobile browsing. The new version of Pocket Express more than doubles the available content for the same monthly subscription of $6.99.

Relief may be on the way to mobile phone users frustrated with viewing poorly structured Web pages on their handsets and companies annoyed with the high-content development costs. In a move to drive uptake of mobile Internet services, mTLD Top Level Domain will begin to issue Internet domain names geared toward mobile devices, coupled with a set of design standards. The .mobi domain name, which has been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is reserved for Web sites specifically designed to work with mobile handsets.

SanDisk has hired Morgan Stanley to help it consider a possible bid for rival memory card maker Lexar Media, which agreed last month to be bought by Micron Technology. Micron’s deal to buy Lexar currently values the company at $8.46 per share, or nearly $700 million. But Lexar’s Nasdaq stock closed above that price on Thursday, at $9.17, after rallying 4.32 percent as investors wagered that the company would receive a better offer.

Product shootout articles are more difficult to do than a single product review. It can often take a huge amount of coordination among manufacturers, PR reps, and our editorial team to get all the devices in and compare them side-by-side. Fortunately, we’ve managed to assemble an interesting collection of portable drives. Among our contenders is a drive that could have been great, but’s a terrible failure do to a stupid marketing decision and two drives that rate perfect 5 out of 5 scores.

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Increased usage of BroadbandAccess is starting to raise warning flags for Verizon Wireless, which is threatening to implement a tiered pricing structure to punish the service’s heaviest users of bandwidth. Verizon would prefer its customers limit their BroadbandAccess usage to checking email and non-bandwidth-intensive web browsing.

BoxWave announced FlexiSkin for Dopod 818 Pro. BoxWave’s newly designed FlexiSkin for Dopod 818 Pro comes in your choice of six colors: Frosted Clear, Future Blue, Coral Pink, Aluminum Grey, Jet Black and Smoke Grey. This lets you customize the color of your Dopod 818 Pro. FlexiSkin is durable, soft to the touch, and it can stretch and flex to help cushion your Dopod 818 Pro from bumps, hard knocks, and everyday wear and tear. FlexiSkin for Dopod 818 Pro is enhanced with new SmoothTexture. SmoothTexture makes the FlexiSkin feel softer to the touch and reduces surface dust.

BoxWave announced the Desktop Cradle for the Cingular 8125. Desktop Cradle is a USB cradle that is specifically designed for your Cingular 8125. It’s everything you need to synchronize and charge your Cingular 8125 to your computer and supports Hi-Speed USB 2.0 data transfers. Desktop Cradle also includes an A/C adapter cable for quicker charging time.

With O&O FormatRecovery, files and folders lost through deletion or virus attack can be recovered from all Windows recognized storage media. Formatted and newly partitioned hard disks can be recovered with consummate ease. O&O FormatRecovery fits in seamlessly between O&O UnErase and O&O DiskRecovery and users now have the luxury of being able to select the ideal product best qualified to solve each respective data recovery problem. O&O FormatRecovery enables the recovery of formatted storage media, including all file system information. This means systems can be used again immediately upon completion of the recovery session.

Spb Finance is a financial manager that you can carry in your pocket. You don’t have to write down all your day’s expenses and transfer them to your desktop PC financial manager later. Enter your expenses into Spb Finance on the spot and forget about them, Spb Finance will remember them for you. Entering a transaction is a two-click business, since Spb Finance has a built-in autocompletion feature. Do you use Microsoft Money or Quicken at your desktop? Spb Finance has special features for synchronization with these products.