Contec Innovations, a global provider of mobile data infrastructure, announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Hong Kong Wireless Development Center for the deployment of Contec’s Hornet DE mobile services delivery platform. The Hornet will be installed in HKWDC’s facility at Cyberport in Hong Kong SAR and will be connected to all six mobile operators in Hong Kong.

Infinite Ventures announced the worldwide release of Battle Dwarves, a strategy-action game for Microsoft Smartphones including the Motorola MPx200, Orange SPV, and Samsung i600. Players are challenged to take on the tactics and weapons of the six unique teams of Battle Dwarves.

Security portal SecuriTeam published an exploit that could allow hackers and other nasty people to remotely sniff traffic passing through the router, and also crash the device. The article says it all comes down to a “memory leak”, causing a flaw in the way the Linksys routers’ DHCP server returns BOOTP protocol packets.

Cartsten Blum has released version 1.3.6 of Exif Untrasher, a Mac OS X application to unerase files from flash storage media. The new version fixes a bug which caused the list of volume names to hide the vertical scroll bar, making it appear as if some volumes were missing.

Microsoft is set to offer for download a “public preview” beta release of its Windows Media Player 10 technology. The biggest enhancement will be the new DRM (digital-rights-management) technology, code-named “Janus,” that will be embedded inside.

ATP Electronics announced that it will introduce the first 512MB miniSD at Computex 2004. ATP miniSD cards mainly target the next-generation smart mobile phones with built-in cameras, video recorders, MP3 players, video games, personal information management (PIM), email and voicemail functions that require intensive storage.

Sony announced that it will no longer develop and sell Clie handheld models to the United States market, primarily due to flat overall sales in handhelds for the past two years. Brighthand has more complete information on Sony’s announcement.

While Wi-Fi is hot, security is not. Experts say that while Wi-Fi hardware makers have made initial setup easy, the enabling of security is anything but.

NEC is showing its entry into the lightweight but powerful portable computing category with a hybrid phone and personal digital assistant. Power Handheld, developed by Bsquare, is about to be released in the United Kingdom bundled with a wireless phone and Internet service from a wireless carrier.

Pretec Electronics is demonstrating the world’s first USB card reader supporting MMC 4.0 4-bit mode, which can possibly reach the access speed of up to 26MB/s, the highest speed flash memory card reader in the world today.