The cell phone became the smartphone and started obsoleting other gadgets. The author provide an obituary list of five of the cell phone’s victims, plus a look at the cell phone’s next probable victim.

Citrix has announced plans to make its XenDesktop and XenApp client and server software for remote access to Windows applications available for the iPhone by the first half of 2009. Citrix XenApp virtualises a applications allowing users to run them on a client directly from a XenApp server.

Researchers at Symantec Corp. have discovered a new worm attempting attack on smartphones running Windows CE platform on ARM processors. Symantec said the worm mutates based on the type of traffic it encounters to evade intrusion defense systems. Once a smartphone has been compromised the worm spreads by making copies of itself.

From her standpoint of a librarian, Jessica McCurdy Crooks’ recent article, Learn the steps for creating an ebook easily, provided some useful information but was somewhat lacking in any real-world applicability. There are other ebook reader and creator programs on the market that provide a much more user-friendly experience for both reader and writer, and in this article Editor-at-Large James Booth gives you a hands-on learning approach to those applications.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Get all of your personal electronic gadgets off your belt, out of your pockets and into a gadget shoulder holster. Though you might want to beware of people mistaking this for something more sinister.

On August 27, 2008, Target settled a $6 million federal class action suit with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) over full and equal access to the target.com website. Combined with similar federal requirements it is now essentially necessary for all companies’ websites to be fully accessible to the 21.2 million sight-impaired.

Skyfire lets NFL fans get the games on the go – for free. The downloadable mobile browser delivers the PC web on the phone, so users can access streaming video content on the Internet. Skyfire users can get the games for free regardless of their carrier.

The shutdown of California-based hosting company, McColo Corp, but a crimp in the volume of spam as well as in malware-spreading botnets. While it gives our AV systems a break, it will be short-term at best as cybercriminals find new hosts.

“How to Be a Geek Goddess” shows how to sort out technology. Whether it’s buying a computer, shopping for a cell phone, trolling electronics aisles, or simply surfing the Internet, “How to Be a Geek Goddess” makes sense of it all with wit, intelligence, and attitude.

Aequitas Technologies has announced the iGala Wireless Digital Picture Frame for Microsoft Windows Live FrameIt. The new picture frame has a touch screen interface and wireless network connections allowing access to traffic, news, and weather information as well as photos.