A spokesperson for ASUS has recently said that the company will introduce a new Pocket PC with a 480-by-640-pixel VGA screen.

A federal district court has ruled that a patent held by E-Pass Technologies covers more than just credit card-sized handhelds, and therefore HP, maker of the iPAQ line of Pocket PCs, may owe E-Pass millions in licensing fees.

The Hermosa Beach City Council has voted to allocate $35,000 to fund the first phase of installation of a Wi-Fi system that will constitute the first steps in transforming the entire city into a completely wireless town that will provide Internet access to users anywhere in the city.

Verizon Wireless is activating a service today that will let its 38 million subscribers redirect their incoming cellular calls to seat-back phones on airplanes with Verizon Airfone service, at a deep discount to normal Airfone rates.

A trucking firm is using Aether Systems’ wireless communications product in nearly 200 big rigs because it provides constant connectivity.

Microsoft Portrait is a research prototype for mobile video communication. It supports .NET Messenger Service, Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Locator Service on PCs, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs and Smartphone.

PalmSource has released a preview of the new Palm OS Developer Suite. The suite is a new tool from PalmSource that provides software developers a means to develop Palm OS applications for Palm OS 4 and all other versions up to Cobalt.

SanDisk introduced the world’s smallest removable flash memory storage format. About the size of a fingernail, T-Flash is designed for new mobile phones, digital cameras, video capture, MP3 players, and video games.

The password as we know it will fade from use due to its limitations, says Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Instead, Gates says, Microsoft will promote “smart cards” and “tamper resistant” biometric ID-card software.

Security experts have argued that the recent vulnerability in the ASN.1 parser library common to several versions of Windows may be the biggest Microsoft flaw ever.