Football Director for Pocket PC is a football (what we Yanks call soccer) management game that allows you to manage everything from front office, to player selection, to game strategies. Players can make decisions about pre-season, match and cup play, attacking play styles, defensive strategies, formations, and levels of aggression. Create teams with hundreds of real players using 2003-2004 season stats from over 90 real clubs in four divisions.

In an effort to help promote the Tapwave Zodiac, some members over at Zodiac Gamer (www.zodiacgamer.com) are holding an advertising contest aimed at designing a print ad for the Zodiac. The contest ends on September 12th, so you still have plenty of time to slide on over, check out the requirements and prizes, and get your submission in. In addition to the contest, Zodiac Gamer and its community is an excellent source of Palm OS as well Zodiac information and encompasses a lot more than just gaming.

A SanDisk CompactFlash memory card survived the blast that destroyed the camera it was in, and records the moment of impact.

funSMS, the text messages manager for Palm OS, is now available for the palmOne Treo 600. funSMS 4 for the palmOne Treo 600 is a complete solution for managing text messages, with integrated address functionality and 5-way navigation button support.

Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec said Monday. The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems mainly to be an experiment to test the concept of a 64-bit infecter and is not actively spread, said Alfred Huger, senior director of security at Symantec.

Business travelers will be able to surf the Web securely on long-distance flights by combining services from Boeing and iPass. iPass, which makes software that connects travelers to their offices from remote locations, said corporate customers will be able to connect to the Web on planes within six months using wireless links from Boeing. The companies are betting that business travelers, who already connect their laptop computers wirelessly in hotels, cafes and airports around the world, want to stay connected on the plane.

Sony’s new updated Memory Stick PRO media features capacities of up to 2GB in the standard-size media and 1GB in the Memory Stick PRO Duo media size and are designed to support both read and write speeds of up to 80Mbps (10MB/s).

Cardmedia, the official UK distributor for the manufacturer Vosonic, has announced the availability of the IC Drive VP3610, a new Portable Storage Device with enhanced LCD display and MP3 player. The Vosonic IC Drive is a compact version of the X’S-Drive Pro VP300 and provides the same features: copy from any memory card all the files to the internal Hard Drive, fast USB 2.0 compatible interface, LCD panel to indicate detailed Working status, File transfer and battery power level, and MP3 Music player.

Tapland reports that David Wenning, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Tapwave, announced at at the New England Palm User Group monthly meeting last week that Tapwave will be expanding sales to include international markets starting this fall with English-speaking countries in Europe first and Asia to follow. Tapwave will also be present at three major events throughout Europe next month. Tapland has a full report on Tapwave’s visit to last week’s meeting.

Crazysoft is offering a $4 discount for 4 days on Crazy Athletics II in celebration of the Olympic Games currently taking place in their homeland of Greece. To take advantage of the discount, enter code “Athens2004” when checking out.