Gadget Accessories has released an iPod External Battery Pack featuring a dock connection for 3rd generation iPods, On/Off switch, LED power indicator, and uses four AA batteries. It also charges the iPod’s internal battery while connected to the battery pack.

MobiMate has announced new and improved versions of WorldMate 2004 Standard Edition for Palm and Windows Mobile Pocket PC. WorldMate 2004 Standard Edition now includes better support for wireless access, and will be available in most European languages: German, Italian, French and Spanish.

Seidio has a new version of their G2500 Powered Mount for the Garmin iQUE 3600 in which they have eliminated the need for a separate audio cable to connect to the built-in speaker.

Sony has a launched a new Select Series line of digital audio players aimed at the “discerning male listener.” [I for one don’t see what is especially “male” about the products, women listen to music too.-Ed.]

PDAparts.com in collaboration with Mugen Power have developed a Treo 600 internal battery upgrade. The battery can be installed in less than 5 minutes and they claim will result in a 25%-30% increase in battery life.

An Internet scam that exploits Internet Explorer to steal personal data from users has been thwarted by shutting down a Russian Web site that is suspected of launching the malicious effort, Microsoft says. Download.Ject directed users to a site where their machines could then be infected with a trojan.

Scientists say prolonged exposure to cell phones could reduce sperm count by nearly 30%, Hungarian scientists say, in a study that fertility experts dismissed Monday as inconclusive.

Hewlett-Packard has discovered a memory flaw that could be in as many as 900,000 of its notebook computers and is offering customers free memory modules as a remedy. The computer giant said Friday that through tests, it discovered a circuit design flaw in some notebook memory modules that could cause Windows operating system “blue screens,” intermittent lockups or memory corruption.

Macromedia announced that Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1, the Flash Player profile for mobile phones, is now available for service providers and handset manufacturers around the world. Flash Lite 1.1 is a significant update to 1.0, first used in the NTT DoCoMo 505i handsets introduced last year.

ScorePAD Sports announced the release of ScorePAD version 5.0. ScorePAD, the Palm-based baseball and softball scoring system, has made scoring and tracking statistics easier than ever before.