Skyscape announced the release of an important Emergency Medicine reference–Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine–formatted specially for use by healthcare providers on PDAs and smart phones. This popular Handbook provides practical, accessible guidelines on a huge range of situations that present to the A & E department, and is the essential guide for junior doctors (including candidates for examinations in Accident and Emergency Medicine), specialist nurses, paramedics, and general practitioners. The text is deliberately precise and prescriptive. It gives up-to-date step-by-step advice on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment and further referral for adult and pediatrics patients, important practical procedures are covered in stepwise, easy-to-follow format with line diagrams illustrating anatomical landmarks.

Skyscape announced the release of an important Emergency Medicine reference–Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine–formatted specially for use by healthcare providers on PDAs and smart phones. The Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine is an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive guide to the management of the acutely ill patient. The reference relates pathophysiology to clinical features to help the reader make the diagnosis quickly. It identifies priorities for treatment and leads the reader, step-by-step, through the management of the patient while awaiting specialist help.

All future San Francisco wireless network users will be able to play free Miniclip.com multiplayer games directly against other area game players. Miniclip games play in a Web browser, so they can be played anywhere, anytime, from an Internet connection. You could be playing a free Miniclip game in Starbucks against a game player in McDonalds across town. In addition Miniclip will be supplying free game services to all other future city wireless networks including Chicago, Denver, and Miami Beach.

AZO Technologies announced a new release of its wireless LAN site survey product, VisiWave Site Survey v1.4. VisiWave Site Survey is an advanced site survey tool that provides data collection and visualization capabilities not found in any other existing product. Many features were added to our Windows and Pocket PC wireless network site survey tool. In addition to providing in-depth coverage information on the associated access points, you can now track the wireless coverage of neighboring networks and rogue access points. While analyzing the results, you can also create many views of the coverage by focusing on individual access points or related groups of access points. We have also given you the ability to perform initial site surveys with a single, temporary access point.

Go Test Go announced the availability of a new service enabling mobile phone and BlackBerry users to browse and buy mobile test preparation tools and quizzes directly from their phone. The company secured agreements with market leaders such as Thomson Peterson’s for SAT/ACT test preparation and Reader’s Digest Canada for Mobile Word Power Challenge. The service already features a wide selection of tests covering many subjects. Tests and quizzes can make use of text and graphic exhibits, question or answer level detailed feedback, automated scoring and analysis.

Active Ink Software, a Microsoft Tablet PC Premier Partner announced the availability of the Active ClipBoard, which allows you to store words, phrases, files and images in a clipboard for later insertion into other applications. The Active ClipBoard can store an unlimited number of text items and can be alphabetized for easy retrieval. Text can be input using a digital pen and includes 13 different handwriting recognizers for improved results.

Boxwave has released a bevy of accessories for the new Palm TX, including their Crystal and Anti-Glare screen protectors, mini- and DirectSync cords, Flexiskin and ActiveCase, and more.

MIT’s newly upgraded wireless network–extended this month to cover the entire school–doesn’t merely get you online in study halls, stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus. It also provides information on exactly how many people are logged on at any given location at any given time. It even reveals a user’s identity if the individual has opted to make that data public. MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the network, whether they’re laptops, wireless PDAs or even Wi-Fi equipped cell phones.

Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Weblog after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday. The blog, titled Wang Yi’s Microphone, dealt with “sensitive subjects” and was maintained by a teacher from Sichuan province. China’s communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, but blocks material deemed subversive or pornographic. Dissidents have been arrested under vaguely worded national security laws for posting items critical of the government. One of Wang’s most recent posts dealt with a campaign by peasants in the southeastern province of Guangdong to remove a village chief accused of corruption.

Recently, researcher Andrey Bayora revealed that it is possible to fool antivirus scanners into thinking that a file under scan is one kind, when it is in actuality something entirely different. The exploit prepends a header byte that convinces the scanner the file is not the type the suffix averred it was. Because routine prepended data can be of variable length it is extremely difficult (or impossible) to locate the original start offset of a file. It would seem the only way out of this is to scan the entire file for headers, which would greatly decrease the throughput of the virus scanner. There seems to be no workaround, save a total redesign of how scanning engines work.