Sony announced the new line-up of lithium ion batteries, with the industry’s highest level of energy density, responding to the needs for high capacity and large current in secondary batteries for mobile products. Shipment will start from December 2004 onwards.

Mozilla is hoping to move on from its success in the browser desktop market to tackle browsers on consumer devices such as phones, PDAs and television set-top boxes. Doug Turner, the project leader of Minimo, the slimmed-down Mozilla browser, said Mozilla hopes to build on the success of Firefox.

Kadena Systems announced it has signed an expanded agreement with SanDisk to include Kadena’s Cruzer PocketCache backup and archiving software on all SanDisk USB flash drives. The unique combination of Cruzer PocketCache’s patent-pending backup software and SanDisk’s flash drives gives users a powerful, easy-to-manage PC backup solution that can be carried on a key chain.

For the puzzle game lovers, Crazysoft has collected almost all of their puzzle games and are offering them as a Mega Pack. Together, Frutakia, PaintBall, Yammy Yammy, The Wall, and Robot Panic would normally cost nearly $65.00, but CrazySoft is offering them in the Mega Pack for only $29.95.

The city of Chicago officially unveiled its free wireless network in the city’s libraries today. Now any Chicago resident with a valid Public Library card can access all of the city’s digital library resources wirelessly while on-site at any of the 79 branches.

LaCie introduced a new series of external hard drives for the Mac and PC, the d2 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive that is capable of reaching transfer rates of 1.5Gbps. With the new external SATA, or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment interface, people can achieve transfer rates faster than most internal Parallel ATA hard drives in capacities of up to 400GB.

PalmSource looks to have the open-source community in its corner as it comes out swinging at established contenders for a share of the growing mobile handset market. But analysts were unclear on how PalmSource’s Linux move will shake out for the operating system and for its customers, including sibling palmOne Inc.

As if the increasing number of dangerous counterfeit batteries weren’t enough of a worry for cell-phone owners, now comes a warning about tight pants. A survey of 300 retailers in Sweden found that squeezing handsets into snug-fitting pants is the second leading cause of broken phones. Apparently, the phones simply can’t handle the pressure, and screens break or covers bend or crack.

Research In Motion (RIM) and Radiomovil Dipsa, S.A. de C.V. (“Telcel”), the leading wireless carrier in Mexico, announced the availability of the BlackBerry 7280 wireless handheld to mobile professionals in Mexico. BlackBerry will operate on Telcel’s nationwide GSM/GPRS network. For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to email and calendar and provides a robust platform for wireless enterprise applications.

Trend Micro announced the first available antivirus product specifically designed for data-centric smartphones running on MSFT Windows Mobile 2003 and Symbian 7.0. As a holiday gift to its customers, Trend Micro will be giving away the antivirus solution for FREE through June 30th!