No, this isn’t about malware, this is securing against old-fashioned theft. Orbicule’s Undercover, Gadgettrak’s MacTrak, and Absolute Software’s LoJack for Laptops each make it possible for you to track and, hopefully, recover a stolen Mac.

Microsoft released a bar-code-reader app for the iPhone. But. Since no one has implemented bar-codes for the uses they described, what do you test it against?

The Mac Box Set, priced at just US$169, will ship at the end of January. It’s a combo pack of Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, iLife ’09, and iWork ’09.

Agendus Version 1.12, despite the minor version number, contains several new features, including the Agenda View and keyboard shortcuts support. A number of enhancements, device specific improvements, and stability improvements are included as well.

Zilog, Inc. and tvCompass Inc. have introduced a mobile software solution enabling remote control capability on the Apple iPhone and other popular mobile smart phones to provide customized control of devices via either an infrared (IR) database or INSTEON or Z-Wave technology.

To help you keep that New Year’s promise, Dietician is a new diet and weight loss application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that generates a personalized meal plan based on a series of diet settings and restrictions.

By year’s end free, over-the-air television should be available on cellphones, PDAs and other portable digital devices as the result of initiatives to be unveiled Thursday.

In this all-new product review, we put Revell Vexplorer Robotics System from Revell-Monogram to the test.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM) announced that T-Mobile will offer the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone, the thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone. Availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is anticipated in February.

These new IntelliScanners organize everything in your home or business with barcode technology. Just scan the barcode to instantly manage, search and share your collections or business inventories.