Here are Eric Lundquist’s new rules of being the techie gentleman or lady.

Looks like our own David Gewirtz was right in his concerns. Here’s a breaking news report on the subject:

ZATZ Publishing today announces that national security concerns published by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? have been proven true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate example.

Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

That’s the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that’s per BlackBerry. Given today’s incident, that’s seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels.

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Due to better support for Java, Microsoft’s Tellme subsidiary is offering its voice search for Blackberry devices before it goes live on Windows Mobile handsets. Tellme keeps track of where you are through your phone’s GPS radio so your search results are local to where you are. Device owners can tap a button and speak their search query; in return, Tellme will offer local results using the Microsoft Live Search engine.

Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard, with its 133 tiny OLED display keys, is finally available to the general public (or more likely, photo-shopping enthusiasts) on ThinkGeek.com. The keyboard was only previously available through a limited pre-ordered list at the Lebedev Web site. Each key can be individually programmed to display different tasks, like playing tiny movies, HTML codes, or your favorite Web sites.

But if you thought that the price might have come down to bring in the curious consumer, you’re wrong. And endearingly naive. At $1,600, it costs more than a few iPhones, most quality laptops, and even a couple of Danny Dumas or Brian Lam haircuts. Heck, you could even take a round trip to see Lebedev himself in Europe–why don’t you buy him a beer in Russia’s most expensive pub for coming up with such a cool and crazy-cracky product? Or you can stare at tiny screens and see your own fonts come to life, which is its own type of fun.

The release of Syware’s Visual CE 11.0 is right around the corner and here’s your chance to get a sneak peek at it. Those of you who are already Personal, Professional or Mobile 360 licensees can purchase an upgrade to Visual CE 11.0 beta in advance of the production release. You will be sent the production release at no additional charge, as soon as it is available. Those who do not yet have a Visual CE license of any type can buy the 11.0 beta now to get started and will also receive the production release at no additional charge, as soon as it is available.

Comcast is throttling more traffic than it has previously admitted, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told a U.S. Senate panel April 22. Martin also told lawmakers it appears Comcast broadband customers are not free to access all content on the Internet, including the ability to fully use peer-to-peer networks.

Martin’s comments come after two FCC hearings on charges that the nation’s largest cable provider deliberately throttles P2P applications such as BitTorrent during peak network hours, a practice that Comcast admits to. Comcast says its policy not only falls within the FCC’s reasonable network management exception to the FCC’s network neutrality rules, but it is also “imperceptible to the customer.”

Martin refuted Comcast’s claims, telling the Senate Commerce Committee, “It does not appear that this technique [throttling] was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time.” According to Martin, the testimony so far presented to the FCC indicates Comcast’s efforts at managing P2P traffic “is typically deployed over a wider geographic or system area and would therefore have impacted nodes within a system simultaneously.”

Comcast’s technology, Martin added, “blocks the uploads of at least a large portion of subscribers in that part of the network, regardless of the actual levels of congestion at that particular time.”

Martin also said he had no fix on when Comcast will actually stop using its current approach, although Comcast said it plans to move to a “content-agnostic” platform available for up to 20 percent of Comcast’s customers by the end of the year. One of the primary network neutrality complaints against Comcast is that it singles out one program over another.

GoTreo Software is now offering live tech support in conjunction with its recently released SafeGuard utility. SafeGuard is an application designed to troubleshoot, prevent and help diagnose software problems and misbehaving 3rd party applications on Palm OS devices. The company is now offering a new SafeGuard Live service to help frustrated users diagnose and solve their crashing or locked device issues via live phone help, instant messenger or email. The company aims to remedy and stabilize any software issue no matter the offending application.

V2R PhotoViewer allows you to quickly generate your own photo album gallery to quickly watch all the photos and images in your selected albums. You can easily add and remove albums to your gallery and then easily finger navigate through your albums and galleries.

Buffalo Technology announced the latest addition to its line of external hard drives, the 1TB DriveStation Combo4. Built with universal connectivity and speed in mind, the new DriveStation Combo4 comes equipped with four interfaces–eSATA, FireWire 400/800, and USB 2.0.

DriveStation Combo4 is a stylish yet powerful addition to your work space or home office, designed for Mac or PC users who need a flexible connection and fast data transfer and throughput speeds. Backing-up and transferring larger files is quick and seamless, especially since the device is enhanced with Buffalo’s TurboUSB software, which offers 20% faster transfer rates than most other USB drives on the market. It also incorporates a blazing fast 7200-RPM SATA drive.

IBM today announced that it will team with the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) to develop a new industry framework for the defense and security industries which will help military and security organizations better integrate their command, control, communications and computing (C4) systems across different service branches.

This framework, which will address government network centric operations (NCO), will be powered by a service oriented architecture (SOA) that fully exploits the capabilities of Information on Demand to develop a more efficient use of existing operational resources based on real time information and the sharing of information across organizations thus ensuring flexible and interoperable, effect-based operations.[Skynet anyone?]