Expanding the selection of Walkman digital music devices, Sony announced nine new flash media Network Walkman players. The new Network Walkman models easily play back both MP3 and ATRAC3/3plus music files, as well as support WMA and WAV formats. They are compatible with Sony’s Connect online music store and include SonicStage software to import, manage and transfer music collections.

Beginning March 10, WRAL-TV will add ACC and NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament content to its News Over Wireless mobile news application. WRAL will provide subscribers with complete tournament coverage, including updated scores, game recaps and schedules. DTV Plus, WRAL’s sister company, designed the News Over Wireless mobile application, with wireless application expertise from Air2Web.

Earthcomber new features of its freeware personal navigator that allow users to mark and share places on the map. Earthcomber Version 1.2 lets users mark their favorite places on maps, either on their Palm-powered devices or directly on the Web, and then share those places through private and public groups in the Earthcomber community. Members of each group can load the group’s locations onto their own Palms, or browse the locations on the Web.

CrystalVoice Communications announced that it will bring enhanced VoIP Solutions to enterprise customers in the Asia Pacific region with HP. HP Taiwan will integrate CrystalVoice’s Remote Extension and Click-to-Talk solutions for current and future clients throughout the region. HP Taiwan will provide design, implementation, and support to joint regional and global enterprise customers.

Sidekick users raged against their machines on Monday, as service provider Danger fought to isolate issues that disconnected the hip phones from email, instant messaging and other data services. The outages are the latest issues plaguing the mobile phone and Internet services provided by Danger and T-Mobile. Both companies have come under scrutiny as the means by which online thieves managed to steal the addresses, email messages and images from the Sidekick of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton last year, an incident that came to light last month.

Antivirus researchers are investigating a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to cell phones than Cabir. The malicious software, dubbed “CommWarrior” and described as a virus by some antivirus companies, takes aim at the version of the Symbian operating system running on Nokia Series 60 handsets. CommWarrior attempts to spread by sending messages via Bluetooth wireless connections and Multimedia Message Service–different from the Cabir virus, which only used Bluetooth to proliferate.

Mitsubishi models for 2006 and 2007 in North America will have Sirius Satellite Radio as a factory-installed option. Under the offer, Sirius will come standard with Mitsubishi’s premium audio system package as a six-month, pre-paid subscription. Activation will be free of cost.

Internet telephony software specialist SIPquest said Monday it and wireless network equipment maker Nortel Networks are adding Internet-telephony capabilities to Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Sony Ericsson’s P900 and other smart phones. The Net-phone user interface will come from Ottawa-based SIPquest, and Nortel’s MCS 5200, which is network operator equipment for video conferencing, online collaboration and other advanced telephone services.

Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen have more in common than their love of blogging: They both got fired over it. Though many companies have Internet guidelines that prohibit visiting porn sites or forwarding racist jokes, few of the policies directly cover blogs, or Web journals, particularly those written outside of work hours. With search engines making it easy to find virtually anything anyone says in a blog these days, companies are taking notice–and taking action.

SmartVideo Technologies, provider of national network programming to cellular Smartphones, has signed a partnership deal with digital content distributor OlympuSAT that will deliver content to the sizable but previously under-served Hispanic market and the audience seeking family-friendly alternative programming. Under this agreement, some 50 million current mobile phone subscribers, and millions more PDA subscribers, will have access to such OlympuSAT channels as TBN, Daystar Television, Cine Mexicano, Latin TV, B Mania TV and Colours TV. In all, OlympuSAT delivers 24 channels through its Hispanic, Digital I and Faith & Families Packs. SmartVideo will begin offering the OlympuSAT channels by April 1, 2005.