Amacom Technologies has launched even greater capacities of its pocket-sized portable storage devices, Flip2disk and IOdisk. Typically, ##the new 100GB capacity## will store the equivalent of 25000 songs or 200000 photos of family and friends or over 100 hours of home made or Hollywood video, making it an ideal partner for an MP3 player, digi-cam or portable DVD device.

Symbian is questioning whether the Skulls program that disrupts some cell phones running its software is actually malicious. The mobile operating system developer said on Monday that the Trojan horse, which breaks links to applications and replaces display icons with images of skulls, could be legitimate.

On Monday, PalmOne launched a Silicon Valley shop for its Treo family of smart phones. The store, located at the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, Calif., will stockpile PalmOne’s Treo 600 and its recently launched Treo 650 smart phones, as well as accessories and software.

In Taipei, Wi-Fi access points that will link computers to the Web will be attached to traffic and street lights, creating a network that will cover 90 percent of the city by the end of 2005. Taipei city planners hope to build what they say will be the world’s biggest Wi-Fi network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost everywhere in the Taiwan capital.

Mobile data firm Intellisync has released a new version of its synchronization platform for wireless devices, and outlined its plans to position itself as an alternative to BlackBerry maker RIM for mobile enterprise systems. Intellisync’s Mobile Suite 6 supports more types of mobile device than any other wireless solution, the firm said, and can also link to nearly every groupware server used by large organizations, including Lotus Domino running on AIX or AS/400 systems.

Radicaltek-mobile.co.uk has released the first group in a series of e-books covering nightlife, gambling and adult entertainment in 46 cities worldwide. Mobile e-book readers can download guides for bars, strip clubs, world-class casinos, racecourses, dog tracks, motor speedways, and other entertainment and services. [Please note, although this link does not go to an adult site, some of the material could be considered of an adult nature i.e. gambling and other adult entertainment. If this bothers you, then don’t follow the link. And remember, we’ve covered religious material as well because we provide impartial, unpartisan news. — Ed.]

MSNbroadcast.com, in cooperation with Absolutist.com, has launched a new game series

Blue Nomad has announced the launch of BackupBuddyVFS v. 3.0. The new version is designed to make it easier than ever to protect data on handhelds by automatically saving back-up copies of data to memory cards. BackupBuddyVFS is designed to work with organizers that support the Virtual File System (VFS), such as PalmOne Treo, Palm Tungsten and Zire, and Sony CLIE devices. BackupBuddyVFS can be used with virtually any Palm OS device with a memory card.

Sony Electronics is introducing the Sony Microdrive, a one-inch removable hard disk drive that will meet the increasing storage needs of many portable digital devices such as digital cameras and PDAs. Sony Microdrive will be available in 2 GB and 4 GB capacities, both compatible to the Compact Flash+ Type II Standard. With a PC adapter, the Microdrive can also be used in devices that have a PC card type II slot.

Brutally long hours are nothing new in the software business, where programmers are used to demanding schedules. But employees at EA and other game publishers are speaking out. They’re saying, in essence, that the game industry is crossing the line when it comes to reasonable work hours and are challenging it to change its ways.