Giving photo enthusiasts the freedom to take more pictures and shoot more video, SanDisk increased both capacities and speeds in its SanDisk Ultra II line with the introduction of 32- and 16-GB SDHC cards and an 8GB SDHC Plus card. Ideal for today’s camcorders and point-and-shoot digital cameras that can record both video and still images, the cards offer faster read and write speeds of 15 megabytes per second (15MB/sec), up from previous speeds of 10MB/sec read and 9MB/sec write in the SanDisk Ultra II line.

AccuWeather.com announced the launch of the AccuWeather.com Forums, a place for threaded discussion on a variety of topics. The Forums attracted thousands of users while still in Beta testing and is already proving to be a very popular element for the AccuWeather.com online community.

The European Court of Justice ruled on a dispute between Spanish music rights holders association Promusicae and Spain’s top telecommunications operator, Telefonica.

Telefonica argued that, under a national law based on EU rules, it had to disclose the name of an Internet subscriber only for criminal actions, not civil ones.

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi said analysis of sales numbers from Apple and AT&T revealed about 1.45 million phones were “missing in action ” at the end of 2007.

About 480,000 of those iPhones were believed to be held by AT&T as inventory, leaving another 1 million phones, or 27 percent of the total, that Sacconaghi said were “unlocked” so they could work on non-AT&T networks.

KoolSpan is offering up an encryption solution for cell phones, PDAs, smartphones and the like for end-to-end security. For mission critical applications, say government or defense contract work, a simple and convenient security system for cell phones is serious business. KoolSpan has made encrypted cell phones simple. With any device that has microSD support the KoolSpan system will work. The solution is simple–just dial the number. If the other phone is KoolSpan enabled, then both phones automatically go [256bit] secure.

Skyfire says its mobile browser makes the Web experience like on Apple’s iPhone–on Windows Mobile smartphones. Unveiled at DEMO 08, Skyfire says its mobile browser can even use Flash, Ajax or Java technologies thanks to pages reformatted by Skyfire’s servers. Skyfire says the technology for Windows Mobile provides “real Web” support.

Google said it has fixed a problem that was causing Windows Mobile phone users to receive blank Gmail messages. In October, Google began supporting IMAP for Gmail. That means messages that mobile users send or receive from their phones are synced with their Gmail accounts, appearing the next time users access their accounts from a computer. But shortly after the announcement, Windows Mobile users began complaining in online forums about problems.

In some cases, Windows Mobile users said that HTML email messages showed up blank on their phones. Others said that while they could read message headers, all messages appeared blank.

Proporta’sAlu-Leather Case is custom made to fit the exact specifications of your HTC S730 device. A layer of rigid, yet lightweight aircraft grade aluminium is built into the leather, which subtly protects your screen against crushing and impact shocks. And furthermore, there’s no need for you to have to remove your device from its case as it includes all the necessary cut outs allowing you access to all ports and controls. For those of you who wish to keep your device close at hand, a removable belt-clip is also available for quick and easy access to your mobile device.

For extra protection, Proporta has produced an AdvancedScreen Protector to protect your HTC S730’s delicate screen from scratches, scrapes and dust evasion. With an improved thickness made from a new ultra high-clarity plastic that doesn’t impair screen brightness and clarity, this protector is also fully washable and replaceable.

PhatWare announced the availability of CalliGrapher 8.6, the updated version of the handwriting recognition software for Windows Mobile based devices. The new version of CalliGrapher features improved performance and addresses compatibility issues with some latest Windows Mobile devices. CalliGrapher 8.6 has additional improvements for speed and quality of recognition. The software supports touch-screen devices powered by Windows Mobile 2003, 5.0, 6.0 or 6.1.

Iambic’s GoogHelper isa snappy utility that helps quickly launch various Internet searches using mobile friendly sites such as Google, Yahoo!Finance, Amazon, Wikipedia and many more. It has an intuitive, space efficient and elegantly designed interface, packed with enough power to search 12 different categories.

Tipper is a split tipcalculator which comes extremely handy when dining out by saving time and effort by calculating the total and displaying the actual tip amount. Until today available for Palm OS and Windows Mobile, and now also for BlackBerry.