Glendale, CA police have arrested Ara Gabrielyan, 32, a man they say tracked his ex-girlfriend’s whereabouts by attaching a global positioning system to her car. Police said Gabrielyan attached a cellular phone to the woman’s car on August 16 with a motion switch that turned on when the car moved, transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite. Information was then sent to a Web site that allowed Gabrielyan to monitor the woman’s location.

Security firm MessageLabs has reported a 10 per cent fall in the amount of spam it has seen hitting mailboxes in August, and that the proportion of emails carrying viruses dropped about half a per cent during the same month. They suggested that, while some of the fall could be attributed to the cyclical nature of spam and viruses, which often drops during the summer months, the US Operation Web Snare initiative could have a bearing.

Being good may not always be good enough, especially for companies in the fast-moving world of technology. In 2004, there are five innovators that appear to be at turning points: Netflix, PalmSource, Research In Motion, TiVo and Vonage. Each sells a product or service considered brilliant, and each has drawn raves from consumers. But that’s not always enough.

TealPoint Software announced the release of TealDoc version 6.42 for Palm OS handhelds. The new release is a significant upgrade for the program adding document editing, full screen support on newer devices, high resolution FontBucket and tiny fonts, dictionary lookup thru BDicty.

TealPoint Software announced the release of TealPhone version 4.00 for Palm OS handhelds. TealPhone is the contacts replacement that includes enhanced display, search, phone-dialing, groups, and linking options for all your contacts.

The Media Reader and Writer lets you transfer files from one media card to another, or transfer files from all four media cards simultaneously at transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps. It features four dedicated slots to accommodate all popular types of media including: xD Picture Card, CompactFlash I, CompactFlash II, SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Mini Secure Digital (Mini SD), MultiMediaCard, RSMMC, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Memory Stick MagicGate, and Memory Stick MagicGate Duo.

Samsung has shown what it claims is the world’s first mobile phone that incorporates a hard drive. The SPH-V5400, unveiled in Japan, includes 1.5GB of hard disk storage.

As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers are upping the ante in the war on spam and registering their own SPF records. Email security company MX Logic will report that 10 percent of all spam includes such SPF records, which are used to authenticate IP addresses of email senders and stop spammers from forging return email addresses. As a result, enterprises will need to increase their reliance on a form of white-listing called reputation analysis as a chief method of blocking spam.

NSC introduced ShareIt FTP Pro 1.7, the next major release of their FTP server software. ShareIt FTP is a secure and easy-to-use file sharing solution that enables home, academic, government, industrial and corporate users to transfer and manage files on their handheld devices over the Internet. Fine-tuned for Microsoft Pocket PC devices, ShareIt FTP Pro 1.7 includes 168-bit 3DES SSL/TLS support, certificate creation tools and performance enhancements to make transferring information across wireless and public networks safe and reliable.

Samsung Electronics announced the newest model in their optical disc drive family, the Writemaster TS-H552B 16X DVD ReWritable drive. The double-layer TS-H552B supports all the popular DVD recordable/rewritable formats, and provides computer users with greater storage power and even more flexibility to enjoy favorite movies and music, and archive data without regard to format variations.