Everdream Corp., a desktop management company, plans to launch a service “in the near future” that can delete sensitive files on lost or stolen laptops, remotely. Pre-installed software would automatically locate and alert the machine to delete sensitive data the next time the laptop connects to Everdream’s desktop management hosting service through the Internet. Software known as an “agent,” communicates via the network every 15 minutes to Everdream’s control center looking for new patches or virus updates. The same process also would allow the software maker to delete files.

A clever piece of software allows Pocket PC Phone Edition devices to receive notifications of new emails via SMS and then pull them off of an email server. PushMail was written to allow users to be able to receive emails over the air, even without a more sophisticated infrastructure provided by a Microsoft Exchange Server. The software relies on the user mailbox’s ability to send or forward a message to a SMS gateway when a new email arrives. PushMail hooks into the SMS queue and is notified when a new SMS arrives. This will cause it to analyze the SMS and if it matches the configured sender’s id then it will perform a Send/Receive operation. This is transparent to the user, and the application doesn’t actually has to be running, since the native component will instantiate it when a SMS notification arrives.

Intel will put NAND flash chips into notebook PCs beginning next year. The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker said Tuesday that the NAND flash feature in its forthcoming notebook platform, dubbed Santa Rosa, would offer the main benefit of decreasing the time it takes to turn on a PC. The news comes roughly three months after Intel announced that it was forming a joint venture with Micron to produce NAND flash chips.

Palm users get the short end of the stick when it comes Voice over IP services. While Windows Mobile handheld owners have long had the ability to place Skype-based VoIP calls via their devices, for example, there’s been little progress toward “quality” Internet calling on the Palm OS front. A new MantraGroup mobiVoIP service may soon change this, however. Currently in closed beta, mobiVoIP purports to deliver to the Palm community what has long been missing, a decent VoIP experience–similar to Skype for Pocket PC.

QUALCOMM announced an initiative to help increase the likelihood of recovering abducted children. The AMBER Alert Highway Network, through a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, redistributes AMBER Alerts directly to truck drivers, significantly broadening the audience of those who can watch for abducted children. The new initiative has the support of the American Trucking Associations, and the potential to add thousands of trucks and drivers to the AMBER Alert Highway Network. Secondary methods of distribution such as QUALCOMM’s initiative, which delivers Alerts through the OmniTRACS mobile communications solution, assist in achieving the overall goal of the AMBER Alert program–to notify as many people as possible about a recent child abduction, and provide information that can help in the search for the abducted child, suspected abductor, and/or suspected vehicle and in the safer return of the child. For drivers to receive Alerts through on-board communications solutions, transportation carriers must be enrolled in the AMBER Alert Highway Network.

Electric Pocket’s Ringo Mobile ringtone manager is now available for users of the Treo 700w smartphone devices based on Windows Mobile 5.0. Ringo has long been the best-selling ringtone manager for Treo smartphones based on the Palm OS–and more recently devices based on Pocket PC Phone Edition. Ringo Mobile enables users to easily assign MP3, WMA, or WAV format ringtones to every incoming call they receive on their Treo or Pocket PC phone. Ringtones can be assigned to individual callers or to groups of callers–such as business, family, or friends.

Federal regulators have spent much of the past year prodding Internet phone providers to link their customers to the enhanced 911 system, but accomplishing that goal is no small feat, industry representatives said Tuesday. The enhanced 911, or E911, system is a step up from the basic 911 system in that it supplies emergency call operators with the caller’s geographical location and callback phone number. The Federal Communications Commission has decreed that such E911 service must be mandatory and new customers will be denied the option of choosing VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service without it.

The EZ Laptop Riser offers more features and better design than other laptop stands. EZ Laptop Riser raises the display and angles the keyboard for more ergonomic viewing and typing. Perfect for use with a separate keyboard or mouse at the highest setting or use your notebook’s built-in keyboard at the low and medium settings. Three adjustable angles at 15-degrees, 25-degrees, and 35-degrees raise the screen by 2-1/2, 4, and 5 inches.

SnapStream Media announced the launch of the Firefly Mini PC Remote. The Firefly Mini PC Remote features a small form factor and fewer buttons, IR technology, driver-free installation, and seamless integration with SnapStream Media’s Beyond TV and Beyond Media. The Firefly Mini PC remote features easy setup and fewer buttons, for a smaller and simpler PC remote control. Driver-free installation allows the user to simply plug the USB PC remote receiver into his PC and instantly start using the remote.

Here’s a real caffeine jolt–heart attacks might be a risk for coffee drinkers with a common genetic trait that makes caffeine linger in their bodies, a study suggests. Research on more than 4,000 people in Costa Rica found that about half had the trait and were considered “slow caffeine metabolizers.” The other half had the opposite trait, which caused their bodies to rapidly break down or metabolize caffeine, and coffee-drinking in this group appeared to reduce heart attack risks. Among slow-metabolizers, those who drank two or more cups of coffee daily were at least 36% more likely to have a non-fatal heart attack than those who drank little or no coffee. Even higher risks were found for younger slow metabolizers–those under 50. They were up to four times more likely to have a heart attack than slow metabolizers in their age group who drank little or no coffee.