Owners of recent iPods will now be able to set how loud their digital music players can go. Apple Computer, facing complaints and a lawsuit claiming the popular player can cause hearing loss, made the setting available as part of a new software update. The free download applies to the iPod Nano and the iPod models with video-playback capabilities.

iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, announced the AvantGo Windows Mobile Smartphone beta. Windows Mobile Smartphone users can now take advantage of the free AvantGo mobile Internet service with access to over a thousand Web sites optimized for reading on their phone, including news, weather, sports, and more from the world’s leading media brands. AvantGo provides always-available access to mobile content via wireless or desktop synchronization.

SOYO Group announced its FreeStyler Bluetooth Headset, a stylish and lightweight 2.4 GHz headset for mobiles phones and PDAs. The SOYO FreeStyler Bluetooth Headset has a sleek design and a comfortable fit for all day use. It is among the smallest and lightest headsets available. It weighs about half an ounce and measures about 2.3-inches in length. The headset fits neatly over the ear, or users can opt for an ear plug or clip, which are both included. The FreeStyler has a rechargeable battery that provides up to five hours of talk time and up to 120 hours of standby time.

BoxWave announced the Styra-Ballpoint Pen for Palm Treo 700w. Styra provides both a ballpoint pen and reset pin for a great multi-functional stylus. All of these additional functionalities fit perfectly into your handheld’s built-in stylus holder. Styra-Ballpoint Pen comes in black ink and is refillable for continued use with Styra-Ballpoint Pen Refills.

SanDisk announced that it plans to expand retail sales in Mexico and introduced a variety of new products for the digital photography, personal portable storage device, digital audio and game console markets.

For all of you fans of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is coming out with a new game. Heh.

If you’re using a Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone, odds are very good that you’re using some version of Outlook. The data file for Outlook is a format called PST, which is a surprisingly reliable and robust file, but Outlook isn’t the most stable program in the world. You’ll want to protect that PST file from data loss, unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t make this easy for you.

Fizz Weather is a full-featured application & home screen plug-in. Supporting over 58,000 cities world wide it’s one of the best, most comprehensive weather reporting tools for your mobile device. Supporting Window Mobile 2003SE, VGA modes and TrueVGA & Windows Mobile 5.

The latest in computer security is a throwback to old-fashioned safety. Recent thefts of laptops with sensitive corporate data have prompted more companies and individuals to snap up everything from locks to tracking software to protect data from PC snatchers. They’re buying hardware and software to “create layers of deterrence,” says John Livingston, CEO of Absolute Software. It makes software that tracks a computer’s location when it’s logged onto the Internet. Laptop heists are among a wave of computer-security breaches in the past year, leaving thousands of people vulnerable to ID theft.

A new telecommunications reform bill in the U.S. Congress would kill the Internet because it does not protect users against decisions by broadband providers to discriminate against some types of Internet traffic, consumer advocacy groups said. The draft bill, released late Monday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, would gut so-called Net neutrality rules prohibiting large broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to Web content and services from competitors, the advocates said. The House committee included net neutrality provisions in earlier drafts.