In a recent letter to current subscribers, palmOne has announced the Palm.net service is ceasing operation. The service will close and no longer be available after August 31, 2004. All wireless handheld functionality that utilizes the Palm.Net network will not be available after the closing.

Sources have told Brighthand that Toshiba will pull out of this market in the coming months. Also, customers in Europe have reported being told by Toshiba employees that the company is leaving the handheld market. Recently, however, some Toshiba executives in France told 01net that their company is going to focus entirely on the professional market, and not create any more handhelds for the general public.

This autumn, Taiwanese technology companies will unveil what they hope will be the next solid-state memory card format. Dubbed “

Another variant of the Bagle worm is now making its way across the Internet, flooding in-boxes with infected Zip files. The newest member of the Bagle family, named Bagle.AQ, arrives via an e-mail message with a spoofed sending address and no subject line. The only text in the message body is typically one or two words, either “price” or “new price.”

Samsung announced that it could squeeze seven times the resolution of a 42-inch high-definition television down to 300 pixels per inch (ppi), doubling the number of pixels once thought possible in one-inch of display real estate using the first a-Si (Amorphous Silicon) 2.6-inch TFT-LCD with VGA image quality. a-Si, along with polycrystalline silicone, are the two main silicon technologies used in the thin film transistors for LCDs.

Mitsubishi has created a fully OpenGL ES Ver. 1.0 software library for phones that runs under the company’s Z3D3 engine. The combination of this graphics engine and software library allows for up to 1 million polygons per second to be processed.

Stating that Linux is ready for mobile PC users, Hewlett-Packard is releasing a new notebook featuring Novell’s SuSE Linux operating system and the OpenOffice software suite.

Mark/Space is now shipping version 4.0 of The Missing Sync for Palm OS, their successor to PalmSource’s HotSync Manager for Mac OS X, with support for PDAs and smartphones from companies including AlphaSmart, Garmin, palmOne, Samsung, Sony and Tapwave.

BuZZone SDK makes it possible to create software using Bluetooth on mobile platforms. BuZZone SDK simplifies the development of Bluetooth applications, extends the possibilities of Bluetooth technology and makes it possible to overcome some technical limitations imposed by Bluetooth specification.

Lexar Media, known for digital media products and accessories, unveiled a new corporate identity reflecting its growing worldwide popularity, leadership in digital media technologies and expanding portfolio of innovative products.