Cebit America 2005 canceled

Although the Cebit America Web site continues to enthusiastically suggest that visitors “Save the date!” for the 2005 edition of the IT trade show next June in New York, organizers Monday announced that the event has been canceled.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Worm spreads via Yahoo

Antivirus firms are calling it both Mydoom-Q and Evaman-C, and agree it packs little punch. But like last week’s Mydoom-M outbreak, the worm is using a high-profile search engine to gain traction; leaving security experts worried that attackers are quickly perfecting ways to send a damaging payload to many more users.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Danger’s all-in-one

Start-up company Danger introduced a new version of its wireless all-in-one device, claiming improved cell phone capabilities. T-Mobile USA will start selling the device, which it will call SideKick II, later this year, according to Danger.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Wireless spam

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to outlaw spam sent to mobile devices, but warned that unsolicited text messages would not be covered by the ban.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Viwal Interactive AccuHash

Viwal Interactive has released version 2.0.10 of AccuHash, a PC-utility that allows you to easily verify the integrity of your data files. AccuHash scan the specified folder and create list of checksum values for files in this folder, which can then be used to verify the archived files.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Backdoor in PDA security

The first Trojan Horse for Pocket PCs has been discovered by a number of anti-virus companies. The Trojan Horse, called Backdoor.Bardor.A and WinCE.Brador, would most likely be received as a disguised e-mail attachment.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

palmPSone

An ingenious engineer has hacked a PSone, the smaller version of Sony’s PlayStation, to create a rather large handheld version of a Playstation. Check out the product site for further information and pics.

Posted on: August 6, 2004 9:00 am

Handheld video-based security

A natural application for wireless networks is live video streaming to a handheld or mobile handset, especially for security purposes. ComCam and Inetcam today announced separate solutions that tackle streaming live video to handhelds.

Posted on: August 5, 2004 9:00 am

Robots in Fukuoka

Tokku, one of Japan’s special deregulation zones, allow companies to test public interaction with humanoid robot prototypes, and are part of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s structural reform initiatives.

Posted on: August 5, 2004 9:00 am

AcidImage update

Red Mercury announced three major new releases of its Palm OS image viewer AcidImage 3.0. The new AcidImage 3.0 versions (AcidImage Basic, AcidImage and AcidImage Pro) are full of new features, such as full 5-way nav support, complete send/receive (Bluetooth, IR, email), and even image resizing options.

Posted on: August 5, 2004 9:00 am