Jack or 100 Ways To Barbecue (also known as Jack BBQ) is a platform game which brings to you the fun of “jump & run” and a lot of brain exercise while solving delicate logical problems. Your aim is to find the exit from each level, which is well hidden by doors and guarded by unfriendly monsters whose only desire is to meet you and break your bones well for disturbing their domestic living area. The new version of Jack BBQ runs in full-screen on Palm’s LifeDrive, Palm TX, and Tungsten T5 devices. Controls in the game have been improved, the game pauses when focus is lost or the screen turned off.

The long-running BlackBerry saga appears to be over. Research In Motion and NTP have agreed to settle the patent dispute over the BlackBerry device for $612.5 million, the companies announced in a press release on Friday. Under the agreement, RIM will receive a license to NTP’s patents going forward, they said. The agreement involves a one-time payment to NTP, said RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie in a Friday afternoon conference call. Even if the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office eventually overturns NTP’s patents, NTP will not have to repay the $612.5 million. “There is no provision for the PTO re-exam. This is a full and final settlement,” he said. RIM was feeling the effects of enterprise customers that were waiting for some resolution in the case before expanding their current BlackBerry usage or upgrading to new hardware and software, said Dennis Kavelman, RIM’s chief financial officer. The agreement comes one week after the companies argued over whether Judge Spencer should impose an injunction on the sale and support of BlackBerry devices in the U.S. During that hearing, Spencer expressed his frustration that the companies hadn’t settled their dispute, and promised to rule promptly on the injunction. Patent lawyers agreed that strong words from Judge Spencer last week hinted at an injunction in RIM’s future and played a major role in the speedy resolution.

Looks like you’ll be able to use your CrackBerries into the foreseeable future. Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry, has apparently settled the lawsuit that was scaring the berries out of everyone for a mere $625 million. Thanks to Jason Perlow for quickly sending us the link to this breaking news. We’ll cover this development more extensively in the next few days.

Microsoft updated the Web site for its secretive Origami Project on Thursday, offering a more elaborate tease, but also confirming key details about the Windows-based mini tablet. Right-clicking outside the flash animation of the main Web page and viewing the source code provides this: ##”Origami Project: the Mobile PC running Windows XP.”## Although Microsoft continues to play somewhat coy, sources have provided a pretty clear picture of the mini-tablet devices. They will carry Microsoft’s software, but be made by several other companies, sources have said. They will also be larger than a typical handheld computer, with at least some of the devices using a roughly 7-inch screen.

A security hole in a common technology used to manage prepaid store cards could let malicious hackers and other criminal groups bilk FedEx Kinko’s stores, according to a recently published report. ExpressPay is a system developed by EnTrac Technologies, of Toronto. The system uses smart cards from Infineon, but does not secure data on the cards. A security hole could allow hackers to clone legitimate cards or change the value of a card to any amount, according to Strom Carlson, a hardware security researcher at Secure Science in San Diego. The report is just the latest warning about vulnerabilities in cash card technology, which is becoming a popular tool for money laundering.

If a federal judge orders an injunction that shuts down BlackBerry email service in the United States, business customers have the option to switch to another wireless email platform. But migrating to another platform won’t come cheap, according to two consultancies that have analyzed the costs of such a move. Switching from BlackBerry devices and servers to a competitive platform will cost as much as $844 per client, according to a report to be issued on March 1 by the telecom consulting firm Telwares Communications.

Movistar and Palm are offering Colombian business people an innovative tool to support their work lives while better managing their personal time: movistar Mail on the Palm Treo 650 smartphone. The Treo 650 with movistar Mail provides business users with a mobile office that updates corporate email, contact lists, schedules and task lists in real time and provides a mobile phone with messaging and web access. With carrier activation, the Treo 650 combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging and web access, allowing users to organize and simplify their business and personal lives all in one place.

Users of Windows Mobile-based handhelds now have a new way to shop, travel and comb the surrounding area for anything they want, anywhere they are. Earthcomber is introducing itself to users of Windows-powered PDAs and smartphones. This free service has already generated substantial buzz among Palm-powered loyalists. Users can specify exact types of restaurants, shops, ATMs, hotels, landmarks and plot them on a map–as well as join or create groups that let them share or discover spots like where movies were shot, where crimes occurred, sites of public art or places to spot wildlife or enjoy dog parks, pictures, picnics, or freebies. The new Windows Mobile version of Earthcomber includes a point-to-point direction feature that requires a phone or Internet connection.

Demand for PC support services is booming even as retailers and PC vendors pare down their standard warranties. Fed up with pleasant but unsatisfying support answers, PC users are increasingly willing to pay for support from those companies. Third-party PC support is becoming big business, with Best Buy aggressively promoting the services of the Geek Squad and vendors like Dell jumping to provide their own touch. The overall market for Windows support last year was $7.8 billion, which includes everything from corporate server support to consumer PCs.

Antivirus companies are warning of new malicious software that can infect any cell phone capable of running Java applications, not just feature-rich smartphones. The Trojan horse was first spotted by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which calls it RedBrowser. The malicious code poses as an application that promises people the ability to visit mobile Internet sites using text messages instead of an actual Net connection, Kaspersky said in a statement Tuesday. Instead, the Trojan sends messages to certain premium rate numbers that charge between $5 and $6 per message, Kaspersky said. That could drive up the text message bill for mobile phone users in Russia on the Beeline, MTS, and Megafon networks.