A ROM update has been posted to allow owners of Motorola’s Q9h to reap the benefits of Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (smartphones without touch screens). The upgrade includes an update to Internet Explorer Mobile, better wireless connectivity, and the addition of a sliding panel interface to the Windows Mobile today screen. There are also new timesaving features, easier phone navigation and management, stronger security safeguards, and support for Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008.

HyperOffice is now available by download from Apple’s new App Store, putting the business collaboration suite within easy reach of any iPhone user. HyperOffice transforms the iPhone into a tool for mobile business. Users connect to secure corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes–and share documents and data without Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint.

The Webware makes it easier for owners, employees, clients, partners and suppliers of growing businesses to collaborate, communicate, plan projects, share documents, schedule meetings and tasks, and manage information, anytime, from work, from home, while traveling.

CBS announced the launch of the CBS Mobile News Hurricane Center, a made-for-mobile severe weather resource that allows users to view late-breaking and targeted thunderstorm and hurricane updates from their handheld device, anytime and anywhere. Starting today, mobile users will be able to access detailed statistics such as hurricane positions, projected storm paths and the latest category rating for storms in their area. The “CBS Mobile News Hurricane Center” is housed on the CBS News Mobile Web site.

CBS Mobile has teamed up with two partners for this service–AccuWeather.com and Quattro Wireless. Through AccuWeather.com all weather updates are available in near real-time, allowing mobile Web and iPhone users the ability to access live radar updates and storm tracker information 24/7 from AccuWeather.com meteorologists.

It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. The same technology that lets you stay in touch on-the-go can now let others tap into your private world–without you ever even suspecting something is awry. Long gone are the days of simple wiretapping, when the worst your phone could do was let someone listen in to your conversations. The new generation of cell phone spying tools provides a lot more power.

Eavesdropping is easy. All it takes is a two-minute software install and someone can record your calls and monitor your text messages. They can even set up systems to be automatically alerted when you dial a certain number, then instantly patched into your conversation. Anyone who can perform a basic Internet search can find the tools and figure out how to do it in no time. But the scarier stuff is what your phone can do when you aren’t even using it.

If you’ve got a Blackberry, you can now read The Wall Street Journal for free. In a nice reversal for a newspaper that seems to pride itself on hiding its best stuff behind a pay wall, the WSJ has worked up a simple and useful app for Blackberry users that quickly lets readers scan article blurbs, read full-length articles, and even save favorites for offline reading.

Momail and FlexMail are cooperating to ease and enhance the use of mobile email in Windows Mobile devices. Users get push mail, spam and virus protection, as well as mobile data traffic lowered up to 99.9 percent.

The cooperation between Momail and FlexMail makes mobile email in Windows mobiles easier to use and more flexible, with add-on’s like push mail and enhanced email folder handling. Using Momail as carrier of all emails and FlexMail as the email reader makes it much easier to get started and to use mobile email. Momail users can now enjoy push email for all of their email including popular Webmail accounts like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail plus most other Web mail accounts.

High end features, such as an auto-focus camera and GPS navigation, are just a couple of the characteristics that make up the Asus P527 Windows Mobile Smartphone. The Asus P320 however, with its exceptional elegance, is designed for fashion-conscious consumers who strive to accessorise–especially where their handheld choices are concerned.

Proporta’s traditional Alu-Leather Case and Advanced Screen Protector are a must if you want to keep your device in immaculate condition. Proporta offer this style of case and screen protection both for the Asus P527 and Asus P320. The Alu-Leather Case (Asus P527) and Alu-Leather Case (Asus P320), like many of Proporta’s cases, are hand crafted to meet the exact specifications of your device and features their “Screen Saver System” using a sheet of rigid, lightweight aircraft grade aluminium to protect your Asus against crushing and impact shocks.

A Proporta Advanced Screen Protector is also a must-have if you want the precious screen of your Asus P527 or Asus P320 to stay in pristine condition. Proporta have been able to improve the thickness of the high-clarity plastic that they’re manufactured from, without impairing screen brightness or quality.

The XPJ Personal Entertainment Projector (PEP) from Olens Technology is a portable and affordable digital video projector designed for use with all gaming systems, computers, DVD players, cameras and many other devices. The XPJ PEP projects an image as large as 70-inches and can be connected to any Xbox, PlayStation, Wii, iPod, DVD player, computer, or just about any video system. That versatility allows it to be used for entertainment in homes, as well as in businesses, schools, churches, and anywhere a movie viewer or gamer wants to “go big.”

The XPJ sports a resolution of 640×480 pixels (VGA), projects images from 40- to 70-inches, and includes a proprietary 270 watt lamp, with one installed lamp AND one back-up lamp at no extra charge. Each XPJ projector comes with a VGA connector, AV Composite & S-Video ports, built-in stereo speakers, a RCA audio/video cable and even a remote control. The XPJ Personal Entertainment Projector’s suggested retail price is $279.

Apple said that batteries from a single supplier are to blame for the meltdown of some models of its tiny iPod Nano digital music player. The company’s written statement came in response to a Japanese government report that two iPod Nanos overheated in Tokyo, scorching nearby paper and a woven straw mat.

Apple said the flaw affected first-generation Nanos, sold between September 2005 and December 2006, in very rare instances. The company’s statement added that “There have been no reports of serious injuries or property damage, and no reports of incidents for any other iPod Nano model.”

Hewlett-Packard has announced a line of portable lightweight computers aimed at business travelers to compete with a product range announced by rival Dell last week. HP said on Monday that the lineup included the EliteBook 2530p, which is the smallest and lightest of its computers with a weight of just more than 3 pounds and an extended battery life.

The company said its EliteBook 2730p is an ultra-thin computer that converts to a touch-screen, pen-based tablet computer with a twist of its screen and weighs 3.7 pounds. HP said it expected the HP EliteBook 2530p and HP EliteBook 2730p to become available by early September, with estimated prices of $1,499 and $1,670, respectively.