DontForget is an easy-to-use and highly customizable Windows Mobile application that can repeatedly remind you of unread SMS text messages, unread MMS multimedia messages, missed calls, unread emails and missed calendar events by sound, vibration, notification window or hardware LED.

TripTracker is a convenient way to carry along trip essentials (such as flight, hotel and rental car information) and track all the trip-related activities (frequent flyer miles, expenses & more) at the desktop as well as on the go. Whether for business or pleasure, TripTracker provides peace of mind and a handy way to store details of all frequent flyer programs, such as account numbers, PIN numbers, balances, elite status, and recent activity.

The application allows users to record expenses and to create expense reports. International currencies are fully supported, and also embedded are a currency converter, customizable world time clocks, and travel phone book. The Windows Desktop and the Windows Mobile Pocket PC applications are available standalone, as well as part of a bundle, for users wishing to take advantage of the integrated two-way desktop to mobile synchronization, made possible by the included Active Sync Provider.

E-TEN’s M810 and M750 Pocket PC Phones harness the latest mobile hardware technologies with innovations in software to create a pair of portable, multi-connected devices, designed to help the new breed of bloggers, podcasters, video makers, and chatters, stay online and updated wherever they are. The Glofiish M810 and M750 support quad-band GSM, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS. Further specifications include a Samsung S3C processor at 500MHz and 256MB Flash ROM running on the Windows Mobile 6 platform, while dimensions of the handsets are a sleek 109.5 x 59 x 17.5mm.

In this all-new book review shootout, we put three books to the test. Read on to learn how The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor’s Guide by David J. Perdue, The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design Invent and Build by Martijn Boogaarts (and friends), and The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide by Allan Bedford stand up to our editorial review.

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Our own Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz has a new article out, Are political journalists falling prey to technological misdirection?. This time, though, it’s not in a ZATZ magazine. Instead, it’s running in the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Here’s more interesting news on David and his analysis of the White House email mess. He was just interviewed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The interview will be broadcast to 60 terrestrial stations, XM satellite radio, and on the Web sometime during the weekend of April 26th. We’ll have more details as we get closer to the broadcast day.

Tech Trader Daily points out two especially pessimistic and negative research notes on Palm. Needham’s Charlie Wolf, who has covered the company for a long time, remarks that Palm has “lost its way.” He goes on to say “it’s an open question whether they’ll be successful” in reference to the new operating system.

Nomura’s Andrew Beswick is even gloomier, writing today that “all the signs are there that Palm may not be long for this world.” He says Palm does not offer enough devices or distinguishable variants, and asserts that the features of its phones are not upgraded fast enough. [This editor wholeheartedly agrees. Palm needs to change it up, and fast, if they want to remain a viable entity in the mobile device market.]

German scientists have cracked the KeeLoq system, which is the cryptography used in RFID-based remote devices, including car remotes from Volvo, Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen.

At first glance this seems like a catastrophe for owners of those cars. And make no mistake, if the report is true, it exposes great failings of both U.S.-based Microchip Technology, which designed the security system in those devices, and the automobile companies that implemented it and trusted Microchip Technology.

This isn’t a new phenomenon, by the way. A similar crack happened a couple years ago.

Western Digital has introduced 10 fresh new colors for its My Passport Essential Portable USB Drives. Weighing in at less than 5 ounces, My Passport Essential USB Drives put almost a third of a terabyte of digital storage in the palm of your hand and are available now at select retailers.

My Passport Essential Drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter–they are powered directly through the USB cable. Equipped with sync and encryption software for easy file transfer, the mega-capacity of the My Passport Essential Portable USB Drive makes it simple to securely carry thousands of songs, videos or photos.

Agendus for Palm OS Version 12 includes powerful journaling capabilities, a personal project manager, all new “at-a-glance” or Card views now more colorfully organized and streamlined, a new Contact View “Photo Dialer” mode, support for attaching items (documents, images, etc.) to meetings, tasks, memos and contacts and standalone alarms, just to name a few.

Version 12.07 is a maintenance release which reflects the feedback received through our user community. In particular, it contains stability improvements and addresses a few recently discovered problems centered around alarms using intl. date formats, vivid agenda rules, and event repeat confirmations.

Buffalo Technology announced the latest addition to its high performance line of storage devices: the dual drive LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1). With its sleek, compact and light form factor, the new LinkStation Mini puts a massive 1TB in the palm of your hand while offering the same great features and protection that Buffalo’s NAS devices are known for. Buffalo will also soon offer a 500GB version of the LinkStation Mini.