PalmarySoft has released new versions of their Palmary Clock application. PalmaryClock is now up to v3.5, while Palmary Clock Wireless Edition is updated to v1.3. Both apps feature stylish and comprehensive clock and alarm functionality with the ability to add custom skins and backgrounds, stopwatches, world map views, sunrise/sunset times, moon phases and much more.

The wireless edition includes Treo specific enhancements, weather information, atomic time synchronization and an online currency converter. Updates include a new alarm manager, a revised world time window, bugfixes and support for the latest devices.

Mark/Space has released The Missing Sync for Palm OS, v6.0.3. This minor update incorporates a number of fixes and updates. Details include Call Log and SMS Log applications now allow deletion of individual items, Yojimbo 1.5 now synchronizes and fixes to a few iTunes and contact sync issues.

The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides enhanced Mac OS synchronization for most Palm OS devices. It works as a replacement to the Palm desktop application and HotSync Manager and includes a number of additional tools and services including iTunes & iPhoto syncing and a video conduit and encoder.

Consumer-grade wireless routers–your standard Linksyses or Belkins–do their job well enough much of the time. But there are some juicy features offered by high-end commercial routers that just don’t come with the home package. We’re talking features like quality of service (QoS) management, adjustable transmission power, and support for IPv6.

If you need (or just geekily crave) these features, you can shell out cash for a pro-grade router, or you can get them for free by installing new firmware on a cheap home router.

Samsung plans to double the capacity of solid state disks every 12 months. The company said it will deliver samples of 128GB SSDs by mid-year and a 256GB drive sometime in 2009, according to several reports from a Samsung press conference yesterday. At the same time, Samsung is boosting the capacity and speed of its standard hard disk drives for laptops.

Researchers find ways to exploit outdated and vulnerable open-source image processing libraries in the Google Android software development kit. Google’s Android software development kit is using several outdated and vulnerable open-source image processing libraries, according to an alert from Core Security, a company that specializes in penetration-testing software.

In an advisory released Mar. 4, Core Security identified several exploitable heap overflows and integer overflows haunting Android, Google’s software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.

Yahoo may be down but it’s far from out when it comes to innovation on the Web. At the Cebit conference Yahoo launched a major new addition to its mobile phone platform that provides users with a contextual search capability that appears to be significantly more advanced than anything currently offered by Google or Microsoft.

Called Yahoo One Place, the new service allows users to aggregate all their favorite information sources inside one service that then treats each of those items as a distinct dynamic object. This means that each of those objects will then kick off a search that automatically updates Yahoo One Space so the user always has the latest information available about that object.

Dell is making its Latitude laptop line a little tougher. The PC vendor is launching a fully rugged notebook called the Latitude XFR D630, which goes on sale March 4 and looks to compete with other rugged models from Panasonic and General Dynamics Itronix.

The Latitude D630 follows Dell’s Latitude ATG D620, a semi-rugged notebook the company launched about a year ago after hearing customer demands for a more-robust line of laptops. The D630 meets the Department of Defense’s MIL-STD 810F standards, which means the notebook can continue to function in extreme temperatures and is resistant to moisture and altitude, said Brett McAnally, director of Dell’s Product Group.

Sony said it would add a Skype Web phone function to its PlayStation Portable later this month in Japan in a bid to boost the appeal of the handheld machine, which is running behind Nintendo’s DS in sales.

It’s easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.

But could the temptation for stealing iPods be so strong that they’re behind an increase in the crime rate? Researchers at a public policy institute say yes.

GyPSii, the geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, is now available on the iPhone–Apple’s high-end mobile device. The iPhone has shipped more than five million units worldwide since its launch in 2007.

The new Web-based GyPSii iPhone application integrates its multiple services into a single interface, making it easy for users to enjoy a wide range of new and exciting location-based features and services, along with social networking–all using the fluid, intuitive touch-screen user interface of the iPhone.