Mascot Metropolitan announced the newly re-designed PDA Skins line. ergonomic design and patent pending strap system allows a user to access their handheld without removing it from the case. It can be used on the waist, slung over the shoulder, or even hanging from the neck for GPS or other field operations.

SMC Networks announced the availability of a new range of ADSL2/2+ compliant routers for the Internet service provider (ISP) and TELCO markets: two new 4-port routers and the company’s first integrated Voice over IP gateway. The newest members of the Barricade family of routers bring the faster data rates and increased reach offered by ADSL2/2+ for North American ISPs to offer their customers.

The brick weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Motorola’s new Razr is “really a cut above” anything that was done in the past but still represents only “the tip of the iceberg” of what phone designers will be able to do.

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P910i smartphone to SingTel customers in Singapore. BlackBerry Connect enables the P910i to connect to push-based BlackBerry services, operating on an efficient and reliable communications platform that automatically delivers email and other data to and from the smartphone. Customers will be able to access BlackBerry services on the P910i while maintaining the existing P910i experience and functionality.

The United Arab Emirates says it will use robots as jockeys for camel races from next season. The move comes after widespread international criticism of the use of young children to ride camels during the long and often hazardous races. Officials say a prototype of the robot was successfully tested on Saturday.

Chemical giant DuPont is licensing technology from a small Ohio company that could make industrial paint a thing of the past. Akron, Ohio-based Ecology Coatings has developed a family of “liquid solids” that are cured by exposure to ultraviolet light for a few seconds. Made up of nano-size particles (molecules measuring less than 1 billionth of a meter), the liquid solids developed by the company could possibly eliminate a lot of the expense involved in applying protective coatings to electronic gadgets or patio furniture. It also doesn’t give off hazardous fumes.

Chapura had released Pocket Favorites, the first application that makes use of Palm Powered handhelds to synchronize the list of Web sites in Internet Explorer Favorites between multiple computers and lets customers launch these favorite Web sites automatically in their mobile Web browsers. The reliable synchronization of Pocket Favorites makes it easy to maintain a single list of favorite Web sites in several places, and the seamless integration with built-in browsers on Web-enabled devices adds usability to this list on the handheld.

Purdue University students won the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday by proving that changing the batteries in a flashlight isn’t always simple. Students from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers devised the most whimsically complex method of taking two batteries out of a flashlight, replacing them and turning the flashlight on.

Orange Switzerland and Research In Motion (RIM) have introduced the new BlackBerry 7290 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 to Orange Switzerland’s corporate customers. The BlackBerry 7290 is a quad band mobile handset (850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz), which integrates email, phone, organizer as well as Internet browser and text messaging functions.

Yahoo plans to add functionality to Yahoo Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia, the community-based encyclopedia. The links to Wikipedia content will be displayed above search results, said Yahoo and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that is parent to Wikipedia, on Thursday. The feature will be added sometime during the next several weeks in the United States and in some European, Asian and Latin American markets, Yahoo said. In addition, Yahoo will provide hardware and resources to Wikipedia.