Kingston Technology has introduced a fun, easy, and colorful way to transport and share music, photos and other digital files with its new super thin DataTraveler Mini Slim USB Flash drive.

Available in black, blue, or pink with gray bottom casings, the new USB drives make a great fashion accessory by easily connecting to a keychain while storing up to 4GB of content. The new DT Mini Slim measures a mere 1.529×0.645×0.253-inches, making it one of the smallest USB drives available on the market.

Kingston’s new DataTraveler Mini Slim USB drives are available in 2GB and 4GB capacities with a suggested retail price of $11.00 and $19.00, respectively. The new DT Mini Slim is backed by a two-year warranty and Kingston’s legendary service and support.

Last week T-Mobile announced Family Allowances, a new feature that allows parents to easily manage when and how their children use their T-Mobile phones and service. Just a quick heads-up to let everyone know the feature is now available at select T-Mobile retail stores and online.

T-Mobile announced it obtained two final judgments and permanent injunctions as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to combat the unauthorized bulk purchase and resale of T-Mobile prepaid mobile phones, a practice that can be harmful and misleading to consumers. One judgment was entered against defendant Rafiq Wazir Ali, individually and doing business as Fone Xchange, in a federal lawsuit filed in Houston. The other judgment was entered against ASPAC Inc., its principals and affiliates, by a federal court in Dallas, and awards T-Mobile $6.5 million in damages in addition to a permanent injunction against the defendants.

Creative Algorithms, developer of Palm OS mobile software, announced the release of their Web application, DateWheel.net for the desktop and iPhone. Date Wheel.net brings the popular Date Wheel for Palm for use via a browser on the desktop, laptop, or iPhone. Calculate the time between dates in months, weeks, days, and business days, conveniently on your PC or Mac desktop or laptop via your Web browser or via mobile Safari on the iPhone with a custom-designed iPhone interface.

Lenovo is joining the low-cost notebook parade with a $399 laptop. On Aug. 4, Lenovo released itsfirst low-cost notebook, or “netbook,” called the IdeaPad S10, which will have a 10.2-inch wide display and use Intel’s Atom processor. Lenovo, best known for its business-class ThinkPad notebooks, first introduced the IdeaPad line in January as a way to make headway in the red-hot consumer laptop market. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 will be available in October.

A GPS device led a convoy of tourists astray, finally stranding them on the edge of a sheer cliff. With little food or water, the group of 10 children and 16 adults from California had to spend a night in their cars deep inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. They used a global positioning device to plot out a backcountry route Saturday from Bryce Canyon National Park to the Grand Canyon.

But the device couldn’t tell how rough the roads were. One vehicle got stuck in soft sand, two others ran low on fuel. And the device offered suggestions that led them onto the wrong dirt roads, which ended at a series of cliffs. [Unfortunately, they don’t tell us the brand of the device.]

Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic unveil seven new Linux-based smartphones for the LiMo Foundation. Review a sneak peek of all seven LiMo Linux smart phones in this eWEEK slide show.

Delta Air Lines officials said Aug. 5 the airline will begin introducing Wi-Fi service in fall 2008 for its entire U.S. domestic fleet, offering wireless broadband connections by summer 2009. The Wi-Fi service will be installed by Aircell, which won an exclusive frequency license from the Federal Communications Commission in 2006 to offer airline wireless services.

Known as GoGo, the service will allow passengers to connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as laptops, smartphones and other PDAs. Delta said fliers would be able to access the Internet, corporate and personal email accounts, SMS (Short Message Service) texting, and instant messaging, all of which are important as enterprise workers become more mobile.

A giant vulnerability in the Internet’s design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.

The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines that help computers find Web sites. If the trick is done properly, computer users are unlikely to detect whether they’ve landed at a legitimate site or an evil double maintained by someone bent on fraud.

Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

The data breach is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice, which said the suspects were charged with conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. Three of those charged are U.S. citizens while the others are from places such as Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus and China.