Kano Technologies has introduced its SureFIRE800, an ultra-small, super-fast external hard drive that fits in your pocket and can store up to 80GB of data. Its high-performance, 5400 RPM 8MB cache hard drives and FireWire 800 data connection, give the SureFIRE800 speeds matching those of drives three times its size.

palmOne announced it has promoted Ed Colligan, former palmOne senior vice president and general manager of the Wireless Business Unit, to the position of president, reporting to Todd Bradley, chief executive officer.

Infinity Softworks released version 5 of its powerOne Finance financial calculator software and its Finance Pack add-on for powerOne Graph graphing-scientific calculator software. Templates are included for calculating loans, leases, amortizations, net present value, and internal rate of return in TVM and Cash Flows.

Metalink announced the North American demonstration of it’s Long Reach Total-VDSL at the upcoming SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago. Total-VDSL delivers up to 18 kft of xDSL service capability, and automatically scales performance from 18 kft to an ultra-fast 50Mbps at short distances.

In a step toward making ultra-powerful computers, scientists have transferred physical characteristics between atoms by using a phenomenon so bizarre that even Albert Einstein called it spooky. Quantum teleportation of characteristics has been demonstrated before between beams of light.

The first ever computer virus that can infect mobile phones has been discovered, anti-virus software developers said, adding that up until now it has had no harmful effect. The French unit of the Russian security software developer Kaspersky Labs said the virus, called Cabir, appears to have been developed by an international group specializing in creating viruses, showing no technology is reliable and safe from attacks.

The Bush administration will not immediately create a national do-not-spam registry to discourage unwanted emails, saying using current technology to do so might generate even more unsolicited sales pitches across the Internet.

Software start-up Stata Labs released the first major revision of its Bloomba email software, adding calendar features and the ability to swap data with Palm devices. Stata unveiled the initial version of Bloomba about a year ago, positioning the software as an alternative to Microsoft’s widespread Outlook for people who need to manage huge libraries of saved messages.

Absolutist has released their Mahjong on four different platforms: Windows, Mac, Pocket PC, and Palm. With Absolutist Mahjong, you can play a Classic or Shuffle game, Word Mahjongg or Math Mahjongg.

NormSoft announced that version 3.0 of their Pocket Tunes audio player for the Palm OS, is now available. Included in this latest version are support for WMA files, Windows Media Player Integration, tag-based song selection and enhanced support for new audio formats using plugins.