Verbatim Europe Limited announced plans to release 1-16X-speed DataLifePlus DVD+R media. With the ability to record at about 21 MB/sec, the discs will take about five minutes to store 4.7GB of video, photos, music or data files.

Another version of the Bagle virus is on the loose, and some security experts and administrators say it is among the more persistent viruses they’ve seen all year. Bill Franklin, president of Miami-based Zero Spam Network said his company’s servers have been bombarded by copies of the new variant all day stating, “This is by far the worst one of the year.”

Sony Electronics announced price cuts for its Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards. The reductions range from $10 to $50 depending on the card.

PdaMill has released the fourth alpha demo of Flux Challenge, their futuristic space racing game for Pocket PC.

Proporta has released three of their cases for palmOne’s new Zire 72. Now available are Proporta’s Aluminum, Alu-Leather Flip Type, and Alu-Leather Book Type cases for the Zire 72.

Nomadix announced that BestComm Networks has selected the Nomadix HotSpot Gateway to provide Best Western hotels with guest-access networks that offer Best Western travelers both hard-wired and wireless high-speed Internet access.

For those who care, and apparently there are a lot of you, there’s a new iPod. This one looks just like the others (again, those who care would scream that it’s totally different), except the buttons are now on the wheel, and the headset connection moved to the middle of the device’s top from the side of the device’s top, a move of about a centimeter. Oh yeah, in a surprise from Apple, this one’s somewhat cheaper. Yes, we know many of you (including our own BMW-driving, iPod-everywhere-she-goes managing editor) are rabid iPod fans. I’m writing this, however, and if it ain’t the History Channel or Monster Garage, I just can’t get that excited. — DG

Fujitsu’s latest version of its LifeBook P Series notebooks includes a fingerprint scanner, enabling users to swipe their finger to access the machine’s data instead of remembering a password.

Blue Fang is a new freeware utility that has been created to simplify the control of your handheld’s Bluetooth radio. Blue Fang shows you the current status of the Bluetooth radio in the command bar, and allows you to switch it on or off by tapping on the status button.

The buzz around a new variant of the Atak worm, initially dubbed Atak.B, with its reported connection to the terrorist group Al Qaeda, may be greater than the threat itself, security professionals observed. Security researchers generally categorized the threat level of this new variant as low, thanks in part to the minimal risk presented by the original Atak.A worm.