Apple unveiled a new computer mouse that offers four-button functionality, but because it’s touch-sensitive, it acts like the traditional one-button mouse. It also offers a small scroll ball that allows a user to scroll in any direction through documents and photos.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

You wouldn’t think that playing an audio file or a short video clip on your PC could infect your machine with a virus or spyware. But the growing popularity of podcasts can do just that. Brian Livingston shows you how to protect your computer.

This article from Information Week is about wireless email. The challenge for IT is determining which users really need it, how best to manage and secure it, and what delivery architecture and devices to use.

Sony Ericsson is compiling The Walkman phones 100, the world’s favorite songs of all time, to coincide with the launch of its new family of Walkman phones. The Sony Ericsson Walkman phone W800 and gives 30 hours of battery life in music mode or 15 hours of battery life if the phone is also being used to receive calls. Complete with a two megapixel, auto-focus camera with picture light and digital still camera interface, the Walkman phone weighs less than a 100 grams.

HP has decided to stop shipping HP branded iPod media players. HP started selling its own branded iPods in August 2004. The devices on average accounted for 5 percent of overall iPod sales, according to data from Apple.

Ever wonder about how CTRL-ALT-DEL came to be? In this short video clip, CTRL-ALT-DEL inventor David Bradley (yeah, there was an inventor — after all, someone had to code it), explains how this sequence came to be. Bill Gates was not entirely amused, as you’ll also see in the clip.

Zultys Technologies announced a wireless IP phone aimed at users of the company’s SIP-based IP PBX and other gear based on the VoIP standard. The WIP 2 handset is an 802.11b-based IP telephone that features push-to-talk, instant messaging and other applications that could appeal to mobile workers in a campus or warehouse environment with widespread wireless LAN coverage.

Silicon.com has this case study about how Britain’s Labour Party upgraded its communications infrastructure in the run up to this year’s general election. During the run up to the election, 250 Labour Party staffers who were out campaigning around the country were able to remotely access email and files from headquarters.