Red Earth Software has announced the release of Policy Patrol version 3.0, a suite of email filtering products designed to ensure optimum usage and management of a company’s email system. New features in Policy Patrol 3 include improved spam protection through the use of Bayesian filtering, remote image detection and word pattern matching.

Microsoft invites Pocket PC and Smartphone application developers to participate in a contest with a $25,000 prize and application distribution. Developers can sign up to participate in four different areas: Pocket PC Work, Pocket PC Play, Smartphone Work, and Smartphone Play.

To celebrate the launch of their new subscription service, Pocket PC Life and FileMaker have teamed up to bring you a

Kerry Lannert has a review of the Sony TH55 Clie on PalmInfocenter.

Sean Cooper of MobileBurn.com has this review of the Siemens SX1 mobile phone.

Brighthand offers their review of the Palm powered Tapwave Zodiac portable gaming device.

Philips has applied PolyLED technology in the Philips 639’s Magic Mirror display screen on the outside of the phone’s clamshell design. With the phone in standby mode, the display provides a clear mirror, ideal for consumers who need to check their appearance on the move. As soon as the phone receives a call or a message, the mirror becomes the display.

The Bagle worm has made a new appearance with Bagle.M and Bagle.N. Like previous varieties of Bagle, also known as Beagle, the virulent email attachment is a compressed file. Bagle.N differs from earlier versions with a longer list of existing security programs to terminate, and it infects existing exe files.

Many of today’s portable gadgets and innovations had their roots in devices seen or conceptualized in television’s Star Trek franchise.

At CeBIT 2004 Philips will introduce the first PC drives and media to support the recently announced double-layer DVD+R format as well as PC drives that can burn recordable media at the ultimate speed of 16x.