Agendus (personal information manager) for BlackBerry includes an at-a-glance view of the day ahead that shows Meetings, Tasks, recent calls, and messages. There are views for a day, week, or month as well as views for Tasks and Contact information – each fully customizable.

Without too much effort, hackers could spoil the little confidence remaining in the internet.

Cyber-criminals are already exploiting the Domain Name System hack uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky this summer – while ICANN and VeriSign contend for control of the new security protocol, DNSSEC.

Companies using text messages for airline updates, online auction tracking, sports scores, and answers on the go will see higher fees from Verizon beginning November 1. Content and messaging companies face a 3 cent per mobile terminated (MT) message charge to send mobile messages to Verizon customers.

Yoggie Security Systems has announced the Gatekeeper Pico and Gatekeeper Card Pro for Mac, dedicated hardware devices that feature security software.

The Gatekeeper Pico is a Linux “mini computer” on a USB stick with 12 built-in security functions. It boots up with the Mac and includes a low-level driver that “hijacks” all network connections through the device before they reach the Mac.

T-Mobile’s upcoming G1 may not be the best-looking iPhone rival, it may not have the most complete feature set and T-Mobile may have undersold the device at the recent launch event. But it seems that the device is already selling like hotcakes.

1.5 million phones have been snapped up by T-Mobile customers so far.

According to iTWire, you simply choose a gender and a starting letter, then give the iPhone a shake at which point your iPhone will make a sound like a baby’s rattle and throw up a scrollable list of baby names, complete with origins and descriptions (although maybe “throwup” isn’t a good choice of words when talking about babies). If you don’t like any of those, give it another shake and it will throw up more choices.

What will they think of next?

Start with an 8-inch wide plastic film sealed with a layer of metal foil, apply electric current, and watch it light up with a blue-white glow.

The process uses compounds known as organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs and it’s already being used in cell-phone displays but it might be used to light up rooms in the future.

We’ve had C, C++, D, J, and now Microsoft is offering M as part of its new Oslo development strategy. M is for building textual domain-specific languages (DSLs) and software models with XAML this time, not for murder.

On eWeek, Eric Lundquist offers ten steps you can employ to help you keep that bill-paying job in the face of floundering fiscal fiascoes.

With the NDA gone, iPhone-related books can be published, and conferences can be much more detailed, leading to better education.