Jason Dunn walked into his office recently to find his Samsung Jack laying, facedown, on the floor. Though it didn’t seem to be damaged, he noticed it vibrating its way towards the edge of his desk again later in the day. He wonders if he’s the only person who thinks the vibration-mode is, perhaps, too energetic on these phones.

Terrence Russell feels 2008 has been a letdown. Especially in the gadget department. His biggest gripe, cellphones. In this article Terrence lists the hype and the letdown of 5 devices.

Didiom and CD Baby joined forces to allow music fans to sample, buy, and download music from CD Baby artists through Didiom’s newly redesigned mobile music service.

In the past few days Apple has made two changes regarding iPhone development.

Last weekend the company limited App Store reviews to those who had actually downloaded the product. And Wednesday the company lifted the blanket secrecy agreement on iPhone development.

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. released a new version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery. The new release reaches the recovery speed of one billion passwords per second by employing several NVIDIA video accelerators.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can recover a variety of system passwords such as NTLM and startup passwords, crack MD5 hashes, unlock password-protected documents created by Microsoft Office 97-2007, PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat, as well as PGP and UNIX and Oracle user passwords.

Version 2.0.05.6 of iTookThisOnMyPhone features Unified Access, a convenient way to send photos and videos from smartphones to many popular social networking websites. Users simply take a photo and the photos are automatically uploaded to the sites they’ve selected including facebook, Snapfish, YouTube, Flickr, Webshots, and Picasa.

The University of Southern California (USC) calls its security-operations randomness software, an app to make sure spot checks are done a random basis, ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring Over Routes).

The exact details of ARMOR haven’t been revealed, but we think it could feature a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson brain, sub-atomic vector plotter and a really hot cup of tea, though this American version might require coffee.

No, not the yoga pose, Lotus Notes. Lotus iNotes ultralite is now available free to iPhone users with a Lotus Notes software license.

Aiko Solutions announced the release of SecuWipe, a data erasure utility for PDAs and Smartphones. Smartphones pose a risk due to corporate and personal information stored on the devices. Standard deletion, and even a hard reset, do not completely erase the data leaving sensitive information vulnerable to recovery software. SecuWipe overwrites data with U.S. DoD (Department of Defense) compliant methods making data unrecoverable.

Software developers Coolgorilla announced the release of six Free Talking Phrase Books for Windows Mobile devices for travel and leisure pioneers lastminute.com