Seagate announced at CES that the Seagate CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, with a massive 5GB capacity, begins shipping next month into retail stores across the country. The first 5GB CompactFlash media storage card ever introduced, the Seagate CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive offers unparalleled capacities at cost-effective price points for digital photography hobbyists and professional photographers that shoot and store large volumes of high-resolution digital photos.

Networking gear maker Linksys is incorporating a new technology that expands the range of its Wi-Fi products up to three times and the speed up to eight times. Linksys announced a new line of 802.11g products that includes a feature called SRX, or Speed and Range eXpansion.

Sniderware announced the launch of Eric Snider’s Blackjack for Palm OS. Eric Snider’s Blackjack features a very simple-to-use interface, smooth animations and graphics that support the latest handheld models with high-resolution screens.

PDAMill has opened their new community site, My.PDAmill.com. This new personalized site combines a more into a single interface, such as: looking up purchase information for all your previous purchases, downloading updates for products you’ve already purchased, downloading free goodies. By registering at My.PDAMill.com, you’ll instantly get Number Cruncher for free, and also get at least 10% off from your next purchase.

Trinfinity Software released an update to Time Track for Palm. Time Track for Palm was designed for consultants and freelancers to minimize the time spent logging hours and to enhance billing accuracy while away from their desktops. This update fixes a bug that caused changes made to an open log to be applied to the wrong entry.

Hitachi is looking to propel its 3.5-inch line of drives commonly used to store desktop computer files into new markets for storing massive quantities of data. The new drives can hold 200 hours — half a terabyte, or more than 500 billion bits of data, and will be available to electronics manufacturers in the first quarter.

The number of blogs and the use of blog readers rose rapidly last year — but a majority of Americans still don’t know what a blog is. A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, called the “State of Blogging,” discovered that readership of Web blogs — essentially, Web-based diaries — spiked 58 percent last year, with 27 percent of Internet users, or 32 million people, saying that they read blogs.

Leading wireless carriers and telecoms equipment makers have agreed to develop an advanced mobile phone standard capable of sending high-resolution video in an instant. Mobile phone services based on the technology will offer transmission speeds more than 10 times as fast as the current third-generation (3G) service, DoCoMo said.

The box that has become synonymous with digital recording of television programs now has a mobile companion, the TiVoToGo service, for more restless viewers. The service, announced Monday, allows subscribers to transfer programs to laptops.

NoteFix has compiled a list of the top three most fragile components of a notebook computer. Based on repairing over 20,000 laptops, NoteFix’s experience suggests that the top three fragile components are the latch, the AC port, and network card and connector ports.