America Online may face a hard sell with its AOL Enterprise Federation Partner program, a new effort unveiled Thursday that’s designed to link IM users at work. Converting free consumer products like AOL’s Instant Messenger, or AIM, into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks. While AOL estimates 14 million of its AIM users trade messages with each other at work, it and other Web titans have found themselves on the sidelines when it came time to sell their products to professional IT managers.

You can still buy a PlayStation Portable if you look in the right places, but good luck snagging a memory card for it. High-capacity versions of the Memory Stick cards that the new gadget uses to store video, photos and music have been in short supply almost since the handheld game player went on sale. Flash memory specialist SanDisk is scrambling to get more in stores.

PN Technologies announced Tungsten E2 support with the PDCT5-M9-6 serial cable, which also works with the Tungsten T5 and Treo 650 handhelds. The PDCT5-M9-6 cable works properly with the Tungsten E2/Tungsten T5/Treo 650 in order to implement either True RS232 (PDCT5-M9-6) or quasi-RS232.

CNET has put together a list of the 10 must-have gadgets you can find on the shelves right now. They’ve rounded up the latest and greatest gear for work and play, then narrowed down our list to the top 10 devices you shouldn’t go without.

Sales of digital-music players will continue to grow rapidly, according to a new research report, with flash memory-based gadgets dominating the market in a few years. The “U.S. Portable Music Device Forecast”, published by Jupiter Research, foresees digital-music player sales in the United States growing 35 percent this year to 18.2 million units. Growth will remain above 10 percent for the next few years, according to Jupiter.

Two-thirds of U.S. households now have at least one cell phone, and for many, one isn’t enough, according to a study from Forrester Research. The number of households with four or more phones has grown by 57 percent over the last year. The embrace of mobile phones shouldn’t be confused with enthusiasm for service providers, however. Though carriers are working to improve their networks and customer service, customer satisfaction has declined over the past three years and hovers around 50 percent in key categories.

Reuters has shut down its instant messaging system after suffering an onslaught from a new Kelvir worm, the company confirmed Thursday. The London-based international media company decided to take its Reuters Messaging system completely offline after noticing the attack on its network earlier on Thursday, a Reuters representative said. The new variant attempted to spread by sending fake instant messages to people in contact lists on infected systems, a technique used by earlier Kelvir strains.

Whether it’s a cell phone, iPod, or Blackberry, students and adults have seen information transformed from a destination into a companion. Much of what millions of us rely on within those devices was made possible because of the Internet. Inventor and software designer Dan Bricklin says the Internet changed the way technology had been approached for decades.

Cellcom Israel and Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to offer BlackBerry to mobile customers in Israel. BlackBerry will operate on Cellcom’s GSM/GPRS network in Israel and international roaming will be supported in countries where Cellcom has GPRS roaming agreements in place.

3 Hong Kong has introduced the Siemens SK65 handset with BlackBerry Built-In technology developed by Research In Motion (RIM). The Siemens SK65 features BlackBerry Email, BlackBerry Calendar and BlackBerry Browser applications. 3 Hong Kong’s customers will be able to benefit from a full BlackBerry experience with “always-on”, push-based access to email and calendar on the stylish Siemens SK65. The Siemens SK65 will be able to connect to BlackBerry services via both BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.