Spb Software House has released Spb Wallet 1.5, a secure and manageable storage of sensitive information. Pocket PC and Smartphone users can safely keep passport and account numbers, access and PIN codes, logins and passwords in Spb Wallet, access the data from desktop PCs, and have it synchronized among multiple mobile devices. Spb Wallet puts an end to keeping the most sensitive information exposed on SIM-cards, in address books, and in text files.

Those MP3 and AAC files that you’ve ripped from your CD collection are still “unauthorized copies” in the eyes of the recording industry. In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PC owned by a file-sharing defendant who had admitted to ripping them himself were “unauthorized copies.”

Palm and Movistar launched the Treo 750 smartphone in Peru, the first Windows Mobile based Treo smartphone to take advantage of Movistar’s network in Peru.

The Treo 750 combines a multifeatured mobile phone with email, messaging, Web browsing and organization software all in a compact design. The new smartphone has UMTS/HSDPA (High-speed Download Packet Access) capability and comes with Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for Windows Mobile 5.0, which gives users connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server fast, automatic and secure wireless updates of their email, calendar items, contacts and tasks. Also, customers that purchase the Treo 750 today can later upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.

Japanese memory chip maker Toshiba said it would make flash-based solid state drives for notebook PCs, as it seeks to create new sources of demand for flash memory chips. The maker of NAND-type flash memory said its solid state drives would range in capacity from 32 gigabytes to 128 gigabytes, and that it will mass produce the 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drives in May 2008.

Zippy, quiet, and boasting a faster boot time than hard disk drives, solid state drives are used in portable devices like tablet PCs and Ultra-Mobile PCs. But their high price has prevented them from going mainstream in the PC market.

Dell is being sued by a couple of smaller companies that claim the PC vendor violated several patents regarding technology related to tablet PCs. The lawsuit also names Motion Computing, an Austin, Texas, company that makes tablet PCs for a range of vertical markets, including government, education and health care.

The lawsuit was filed by Typhoon Touch Technologies, a Seattle company that develops touch-screen technology for PC displays, and Nova Mobility Systems, of Phoenix, which makes rugged tablet PCs and other handheld devices. Typhoon licenses its technology to Nova for use in its tablets.

Microsoft began to place ads on its U.S. MSN Mobile page, moving into the nascent mobile phone advertising business. Computer-based Web usage dwarfs mobile Internet use in the United States, but companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo see advertising tied to mobile phones as potentially more lucrative than the $40 billion online advertising market.

Resco has released Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 optimized for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 is a suite of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 controls designed specifically for mobile devices. It provides the developers with fast, responsive and Windows Mobile-standardized user interface which gives the developed applications a professional look and feel. All controls were designed with view to the small display size, low CPU performance and limited ways of user input of a mobile device.

For those of you who can’t get enough of our own David Gewirtz on the air, you’re in luck with a morning broadcast on the Boston-area airwaves of WBNW 1120 am and Southern coastal Massachusetts down through Cape Cod on WPLM 1390 am. David will be joining Lou Michaels on the Daily Bear Show at about 11:15 am this morning (Monday).

For those of you outside the Boston area with a hankering for David and the Daily Bear (and discussions ranging from email safety to national security), you can tune in online. Just tap on the Listen Live button. It looks like they stream Windows Media, so you Mac readers might be out of luck.

This has been a very exciting week for us here at ZATZ. After many long months of work, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz’ book Where Have All The Emails Gone? is now available.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

SlovoEd Express for Windows Mobile Pocket PC from Paragon Software provides multilingual translation and brings the advantages of SlovoEd dictionaries in an absolutely new way. Now you are able to choose the way you like to get exact translation. All you need is just run SlovoEd Express, choose the language pack you need and buy a one-year subscription. Enable Internet connection and get the word translated into any language you need.