Flowfinity Wireless announced it is launching Flowfinity Forms 5.5 at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment tradeshow. Flowfinity Forms is designed to allow businesses to build, deploy and manage the mobile forms they need for business critical data collection in the field while also making the experience easy and productive for the mobile users. With Flowfinity Forms 5.5, the ability to capture pictures using the built-in camera featured on the BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Curve series smartphones, as well as the new BlackBerry Bold smartphone from Research In Motion, combined with support for recording barcodes, recording GPS coordinates and over 25 different data field types makes this approach to mobile data collection highly comprehensive.

Hewlett-Packard is claiming that the HP EliteBook 6930p, when coupled with new features and a 12-cell lithium ion battery option, has enough battery life to last 24 hours. The HP notebook battery life claim comes a few weeks after Dell announced its Latitude E6400 corporate notebook that offers up to 19 hours of battery life with a special Dell battery feature.

iambic announced the release of Health & Diet Manager version 3.0, which in addition to the Windows Mobile (Pocket PC and Smartphone) version, is now available also for Palm OS and Windows Desktop PCs. Best of all, both the Palm OS and Windows Mobile versions synchronize with the Desktop.

Health & Diet Manager is an indispensible assistant allowing to easily track food intake, calorie consumption, and exercise regimen. The software has been designed with ease of use and mobility in mind, and at the same time allows for a through tracking of every detail surrounding the individual’s health.

The Alu-Leather Case (Samsung i900 Series) is lovingly handmade to provide a perfect, custom fit with maximum protection for your Samsung i900. Lined with aircraft grade aluminium, the cover offers the ultimate in tough screen protection to save your device from crushing and impact shocks.

Additionally for your precious device screen, you shouldn’t be without Proporta’s Advanced Screen Protector (Samsung i900 Series).

PhatWare has announced the formation of phunkware.com, a company division responsible for development of new software and adapting existing PhatWare software products such as PhatNotes and PhatPad for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The first product of phunkware.com division is a Shaker game for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Shaker, a puzzle game for iPhone and iPod Touch, features three game-play options: Classic (tap buttons that appear on the screen below the playing field), Stirred (use simple finger gestures to manipulate game pieces), and Shaken (by shaking the iPhone, falling blocks can be manipulated by moving sideways and/or rotating). The goal for each version is to complete a row of objects without gaps. Each completed row disappears from the screen. As the game progresses, the blocks fall faster, and the game ends when the stack reaches the top. As a bonus, Top 10 scores will unlock one of 101 martini recipes stored in the program. The Shaker game is available now and can be purchased via Apple AppStore for $9.99.

The new Nano is taller and thinner, the new Touch is sleeker and cheaper, and Steve Jobs looked peppy, if still a bit thin. In other words, Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event went down pretty much as expected–and frankly, it was a bit of a letdown. Tech observers and analysts had warned that today’s iPod-focused Apple event might be something of dud, short of a breathtaking “One More Thing!”-type announcement. Well, this time, there was no big surprise at the end–unless you call a pair of acoustic songs by special guest Jack Johnson a big surprise.

Instead, we pretty much got what the rumor mongers said we would: A new, tall-and-thin Nano (similar to the first two Nano models), a cheaper and slightly-tweaked version of the Touch, and a new 120GB Classic. iTunes got updated–yes, with a new song recommendation feature, dubbed Genius–and a new iPhone firmware update (with a slew of fixes) is set to arrive.

Resco announced the release of Resco Bubbles version 1.0. Resco Bubbles is an action puzzle game where the idea is to clear the grid of bubbles in order to advance to the next level. You are given a sequence of bubbles, which should be quickly and efficiently popped. Numerous explosive, speed-up, slow-down and damage bubbles keep the game play exciting and challenging.

Sony said today that it is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating.

The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008. The laptops are being recalled because improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly, causing a short circuit and overheating.

Comcast claims the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 ruling finding the cable giant violated FCC network neutrality principles by throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent. Comcast renews its contention that throttling network P2P traffic is acceptable under the FCC’s reasonable network traffic management rules.

Contributor Jorge Sosa says that while he appreciates the Prius as a sensible transportation appliance, it has absolutely none of the traits that made him fall in love with cars as a wee Gen-X toddler. Fortunately, it’s not too late to de-emasculate himself — and there’s hope for the rest of us as well. This is a smart article that’s also funny as all heck.

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