I wish I’d had this excuse when I was in school – it seems that playing the “Brain Training Game” on the Nintendo DS every day can increase children’s concentration, reading, and math skills.

I wonder if it works for adults too?

Turning the tables, the victim monitors the thief’s computer use remotely and provides police with the thief’s address.

Kevin Mitnick, free for 8 years after doing time for breaking into computer networks, was stopped by authorities on his arrival in Atlanta, GA for a computer conference. While he was being searched at the Atlanta airport, Columbian police were going through a package he’d mailed in Bogota apparently looking for drugs.

Microsoft plans to continue charging licensing fees from handset makers for using its mobile operating system and not follow the free offerings of Google and Nokia, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.

The pressure on Microsoft’s high licensing fees has increased over 2008 with Google rolling out free Android technology and Nokia offering to buy out others from Symbian and also make its software royalty-free.

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that will be offered as a subscription add-on to IronKey’s USB device management software, said David Jevans, IronKey’s CEO.

An IronKey USB stick uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to securely store data, which is used by the U.S. government for sensitive material. Nonetheless, some customers have requested more features in order to destroy data, Jevans said.

Newly introduced from GPS Golf Guru, the GPS Golf Color Guru is the color GPS Golf Digital Assistant (GDA) of choice for the serious golfer. The Color Guru integrates advanced GPS technology with scoring and game tracking. Using the Guru, players can determine the distance to the pin, traps, hazards and greens. The golfer can also track the distance they hit their clubs, track statistics and much more.

Corsair has expanded their Flash Voyager USB family with a new 64GB capacity offering. The new 64GB USB Flash Voyager has enough capacity for a library of DVD-length movies and tens of thousands of high-resolution digital images.

Thanks to the 64GB USB Flash Voyager, users now have the ultimate solution for storing, transporting and backing up large amounts of personal and professional data. With storage capacity that just a year ago could only be found in hard drives, the 64GB USB Flash Voyager drive also provides the added ruggedness, water resistance and performance not found in storage drives utilizing rotating media.

Agendus for Windows provides a comprehensive way to simplify schedule management, information entry, contact history, and the customization of how information appears. By taking advantage of its streamlined, intuitive, yet fully personalizable set of views and related functionalities, users can breeze through their day with a trustworthy companion whose only goal is to keep them on the top of their schedule.

Version 5.4 is a maintenance release improving stability in specific areas and bringing in a number of refinements through the application. Included in this version are improvements to daily journal editing/creation, calendar views, and multifunction panel, among various others.

Proporta is made up of a friendly bunch who enjoy making new friends. As well as having their very own Web site, Proporta also hosts a page with the popular networking site Facebook.

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few years you’ll know that Facebook is a great way of interacting with people. It’s also a fantastic tool for Proporta to inform their fans of promotions, latest products and industry news, and for their customers to write on the Proporta wall with any comments they fancy sharing with Proporta and their fellow Facebookers.

Because Proporta values a good friendship, they’re offering a 12% discount on all of their very new cases for the latest members of the iPod family (2G iPod touch, 2G iPod classic and 4G iPod nano). However, this offer is exclusive to friends of the Proporta Facebook page and only available until the 31st October 2008. To find out how to receive your discount, become a friend and all will be revealed.

Resco, a supplier of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices, announced a release of MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 3. The new version of this suite of Visual Studio components designed specifically for mobile devices will be released on October 27, 2008. The main improvements in Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 3 are in the area of data input into the mobile devices with touch screen.