ACCESS announced that the newest version of its embedded browser, NetFront v3.1, supports Intel’s next-generation PXA270 processor family. MontaVista Japan, which recently teamed with ACCESS to provide a Linux-based development platform and embedded browser solution, also supports the Intel PXA270 processor family.

SanDisk announced that it has opened its first distribution center in China, in the Futian Free Trade Zone of Shenzhen near Hong Kong. The facility, located in a five-floor, 59,203-square-foot building, will house packaging and shipping operations for Asia and the Pacific Rim.

Cingular Wireless and Eastman Kodak Company announced they are looking for America’s cheeriest smiles as part of a national photo contest: Share a Smile.

We’re testing news posting after doing a systems upgrade, and so we had to use something as a news item. And this, well, this is wrong on so many levels!

Ten years after a couple of lawyers sent what is believed to be the first spam e-mail, intrusive online marketing has ballooned into an epidemic of massive proportions.

Memory Experts International has a biometric hard drive capable of delivering the storage power of a PC in a pocket-sized data device. The fingerprint secured hard drive will come in a 20GB version priced at $450, and a 60MB model priced at $650 and is ruggedized to withstand a ten-yard drop.

Kingston Technology has announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro card featuring the latest in high-density flash components.

iAnywhere Solutions is introducing a new version of its remote-access software. M-Business Anywhere version 5.5 adds support for Microsoft’s Tablet PC and Windows PC operating systems.

The Xerox Phaser 6100 prints at 21 pages per minute in black and 5 ppm in color, with a choice of native 600 by 600 dpi or enhanced 1,200 dpi mode resolution; 64MB of memory and both parallel and USB 2.0 interfaces are standard.

Intel’s new XScale processors, known by the code name “Bulverde,” have been officially named the PXA270 series and will be available with clock speeds of 624 MHz, 520 MHz, 416 MHz, and 312 MHz.