HP’s first handheld to offer built-in GSM/GPRS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth can now be purchased. The iPAQ h6315 runs Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC on a 200 MHz TI OMAP 1510 processor.

This report from Brighthand says that Nokia is going to announce a new cellular-wireless handheld next month. The 9300 Communicator will be a scaled-down version of the company’s already-announced 9500 Communicator. While many of the details of the 9300 won’t be available until the official unveiling September 8 in New York, a few facts about it have been revealed.

Microsoft is planning a new branding campaign similar to “Intel Inside” for its Windows Media audio and video technology, hoping to highlight the near-ubiquity of its multimedia technology.

Security experts downplayed media reports that an “electronic jihad” aimed at Israeli Web sites will start Thursday. The reports came after the Russian news service RIA Novosti published comments made by Eugene Kaspersky, a noted antivirus researcher, saying that several Web sites had posted a call to arms for mass Web defacements to occur Aug. 26. Security researchers stressed that calls for Internet attacks have become a staple of extremist sites and usually amount to little.

In response to growing mainstream demand for quality processors at value prices, Newegg.com this week announced the availability of the AMD Sempron processors to its already wide selection of AMD products.

LandWare announced the availability of Leonard Maltin’s 2005 Movie Guide for Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds and smartphones. Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide includes extensive details for over 20,000 films, “top lists” as voted by over 100,000 regular filmgoers, complete tools for tracking the films you watch, rent, and own and an online calendar that keeps you abreast of DVD release dates, new releases in theaters, and film festivals.

The PlayStation Portable will come with a 333MHz processor that includes integrated graphics, a specialized core for video, a reconfigurable processing core that will enhance sound and 4 megabytes of integrated memory, said Masanobu Okabe, a Sony researcher attending the Hot Chips conference this week at Stanford University. The system will also include a 4.3-inch screen and play 1.8-gigabyte optical disks based on the Universal Media Disc standard from Sony. [But this editor still thinks the Zodiac has it whipped like the eggs in my omelet. – Ed.]

Nokia plans to work with Swedish security company Pointsec Mobile Technologies to develop an encryption tool for high-end phones. The security tool will protect data such as email, text and multimedia messages, calendar and address book entries, and information stored on memory cards.

U.S. law enforcers have arrested dozens in a crackdown on spam email, identity theft and other fraudulent online activity. The U.S. Justice Department was expected to announce details of the sweep at a press conference on Thursday and declined to comment before then.

SYWARE announced Northwind Mobile Traders, a software template that allows the quick and easy creation of data-driven mobile applications for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. Northwind Mobile Traders is modeled after Microsoft’s Northwind Traders sample database software for Windows-based systems running Access or SQL Server. SYWARE’s new, mobile edition runs in conjunction with the company’s database and forms development software, Visual CE.