PhatWare announced the release of PhatNet, a new network monitoring application for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs. Able to troubleshoot a wide range of packet-based networks including UDP, TCP, Ethernet, DNS, and NetBios, PhatNet brings new portability, convenience, and efficiency to the critical task of enterprise network administration.

Prominic.NET, a Lotus Domino application server provider has announced they will now be offering wireless Blackberry support.

sfr GmbH announced the release of version 2.0 of their security solution visKey for PalmOS. The program locks the computer and a graphic of your choice is displayed, only allowing access if certain previously defined spots in the picture are clicked upon in the correct order.

Sony Electronics is taking the wraps off of a new Dual RW DVD burner that can write to DVD+R discs at speeds up to 12X on certified 8X DVD+R media, allowing for a full write-once disc to be recorded in approximately six minutes.

CREDANT Technologies announced the addition of a personal firewall to its mobile security and management platform, CREDANT Mobile Guardian. The addition of a personal firewall makes CREDANT the only vendor to provide centralized, directory-integrated policy management for creating, deploying and enforcing on-device access control, encryption, application control, and firewall policies.

Astraware announced the launch of Tantric for Palm OS and Pocket PC. Tantric, formally known as Abysma, has players frantically arranging different shapes in a top down fashion to avoid leaving gaps for the impending power sapping bar.

Linksys has posted a beta firmware update for the WRT54G wireless router to close a potential remote access hole in its security.

PDA Performance has released ToDo Now version 1.0, a To Do list replacement for Palm OS handhelds. The software has many new features to manage your To Do records, including a revolutionary attachment/linking system.

Alexandria Felton logged on to her Hotmail account last month and was shocked to find that all of her saved files were gone due to “system events,” the files were gone forever, and there was nothing to be done about it. In a statement, Microsoft said “issues” have occasionally beset its Hotmail service, although the most recent case appears to have affected only Felton’s free account.

Inspired by predictions of brisk growth in the $1 billion online game market, IBM, Sun Microsystems and other companies normally not associated with dragon-slaying adventures have launched projects recently to handle the complex infrastructure needed to run online games. IBM is one of the main backers of Butterfly.net, a growing effort to apply grid supercomputing techniques to operating online games.