AccuWeather.com announced they have partnered with Opera Software to offer a direct link from the Opera Mini start page to AccuWeather.com. The Opera Mini home page offers a link directly to AccuWeather.com, a popular source for weather information on the mobile web. The AccuWeather.com mobile web site offers free, ad-supported content such as radar and satellite images and local 10-day forecasts and current conditions for every location on Earth.

ToolboxToGo is iambic’s new title for Palm OS-based handhelds and smartphones, geared towards anyone wishing to have the ability of changing multiple contacts, meetings, tasks and memos’ data at once.

The application includes five tools allowing users to adjust contacts’ capitalization, align phone number formatting, delete data based on creation date, apply numerous changes to any of the contact, meeting and task related fields, and remove tags from the item’s note. Each facility is designed for fine grained selection of the pim items to which the changes will be applied and presents a list of records falling in the search criteria prior to moving forward with the updates.

SanDisk announced they will promote DRM-free music from more than 50 new and emerging artists on a microSD card. This U.S.-based program is the first of its kind to use microSD cards, and helps launch the new 8GB Sansa Fuze MP3 player. The “Sansa Sessions” microSD card is comprised of a collection of rock, pop, and hip hop songs, music videos, and photos from more than 30 labels.

Best Buy said Wednesday that it will send a $50 gift card to any poor soul that bought a HD-DVD player. The tally will run about $10 million in gift cards, says Best Buy in a statement. So if you bought an HD-DVD player before Feb. 23–the approximate day HD-DVD died as a format–you’ll get a gift card sent to you.

In addition to its own Silverlight multimedia technology, Microsoft will support Adobe’s competing Flash technology on Windows Mobile phones, the companies planned to announce on Monday.

Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDF documents.

The announcement means Windows Mobile phones will support both Flash and Silverlight, Microsoft’s own fledgling technology that lets developers build multimedia Internet applications that run in browsers.

Japan has decided to beat France and the United Kingdom (both who have similar proposals) to become the first country to ban file sharers from the Internet.

Oddly the agreement to do so has not come from the Japanese Government, but from Japan’s four Internet service provider organizations after pressure (not surprisingly) from the record and movie industries. According to Torrent Freak, the agreement would see copyright holders tracking down file-sharers on the Internet using “special detection software” and then notifying ISPs of alleged infringers. File sharers will initially receive a warning for a first offense, then be disconnected for subsequent offenses, eventually be disconnected from the Internet permanently.

Do you like video games? Sure you do, but what system or platform is best for you? This handy, dandy video game flow chart will tell you which system is best for you.

One Llama Media announced the launch of its Apple iPhone Web application. Apple iPhone users can now discover new music and watch music videos on-the-go using the One Llama music search service. Users access the service by simply navigating to onellama.com from the Web browser on their iPhone. Users can then search for artists and songs, find other similar songs, and watch the corresponding music videos from their phone.

India is not considering banning Research In Motion’s BlackBerry services at this point, the top official in the telecommunications ministry said Friday. Security agencies have raised concerns that the service posed a risk, as emails sent using it could not be traced or intercepted.

The success of the ActiveCaptain wiki-style Web site among the boating community begged for a truly portable way to access the abundance of knowledge provided by ActiveCaptain’s 6,000 registered users. ActiveCaptain Mobile is a native Palm OS application that combines a chart archive with free access to thousands of charts, a living electronic guidebook with access to over 30,000 marinas, boatyards, anchorages, and local knowledge markers, and a powerful, portable chartplotter.

ActiveCaptain Mobile acts as three major applications in one. On its own it’s a chart archive providing the capability to store thousands of charts on a handheld device. All of NOAA’s charts are available with ActiveCaptain Mobile for no additional charge. International charts will be added shortly for small additional charges due to licensing requirements of the respective governments.