A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday reversed a lower court decision and allowed a class-action lawsuit against Cingular Wireless to go ahead. The ruling relates to a case filed in February 2006 by cell phone user Kennith Shroyer, who complained about how Cingular, now part of AT&T Inc., dealt with customers after it bought AT&T Wireless in 2004.

When AT&T Wireless customers complained about problems related to their service Cingular told them it would give them a chip to improve service if they signed a contract with Cingular, according to an Appeals Court document.

But in doing this, Cingular told the class action members that they would not be able to keep the same rates they had from AT&T Wireless, according to the document.

The functionality of Agendus for Palm OS Version 12 has been expanded to include 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 12.02 is a maintenance release which reflects the feedback received through our user community, bringing a number of stability improvements and functionality refinements.

Hydrogen is a better source of energy than you think, according to Fujitsu. The Japanese electronics giant inaugurated a 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell from UTC on Friday that will provide electricity as well as heat to the buildings on its campus here.

The fuel cell–which sits in the parking lot and looks like a pair of giant green dumpsters–provides two types of energy to the facility. First, a unit heats methane with steam to create hydrogen. The hydrogen is passed through a proton exchange membrane. The electricity produced by the reaction with the PEM runs lights, computers and other equipment.

Lenmar Enterprises’ new PowerPort (PPU2100) is the essential power accessory for Apple’s hot new iPhone. The slim, pocket-sized PowerPort is a powerful cordless charger that can recharge the iPhone in about two hours. As an external battery, it can double iPhone usage time between charges, for up to 16 hours of talk time or 12 hours of Internet use. It is ideal for use during long flights, car trips and outdoor activities when you don’t want to run out of power for calls, email, music, video and games.

The PowerPort will power or charge any cell phone, PDA, media player or game device using a USB connection, including such popular portable devices as the iPhone, iPod, PSP, Motorola RAZR/KRZR and Blackberry. A fully-charged PowerPort can provide up to five complete recharges for these devices or up to 50 hours of instant back-up power.

Paramount and Dreamworks announce exclusive support for HD DVD. If you want Shrek the Third (why???) or Transformers, or any of the other randomly bad movies they put out, you’ll need an HD DVD player.

Instant analysis: So, Universal, Paramount, and Dreamworks for HD DVD. Sony for Blue-ray. And, well it’s just not a good thing for consumers. This format war needs to be over soon. The reason DVD was such a hit was that there was clarity and an easy buy. HD is very confusing for the average consumer and now, with a format war, no one will win.

Oiy.

A second class-action lawsuit argues that Apple and AT&T failed to tell early buyers of the iPhone that annual fees of more than US$100 would be needed to replace the iPhone battery and maintain service.

Filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Sydney Leung on behalf of a group that could reach into hundreds of thousands of iPhone users, the suit seeks more than $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. A court conference on the matter was set for Nov. 28.

Ilium Software has released ListPro v5.0 for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. ListPro is an organization tool that allows you to arrange and use your information just how you want to. The program is useful for maintaining lists for shopping, inventory or assignments. It includes a Windows bases application for desktop synchronization and management. New in this version is support for pictures, rich text formatting in the notes pane, html and xml/rss export options and an updated interface.

Optimize your device and storage for peak performance, clean up system junk and free up precious memory occupied by unwanted files and OS objects, maintain the system integrity and prevent possible problems, ensure your privacy and protect your investments in storage cards and mobile device hardware by using a simple and descriptive user interface yet offering robust arsenal of powerful Pocket PC maintenance tools, this is what Pocket Mechanic Professional does well.

This software helps you connect to free wireless access points with a single mouseclick. It’s WiFi for Dummies. Get your mail and browse the Web without being charged. The ideal WiFi-tool for frequent travelers and mobile professionals. Pocket WiFi Radar will connect to open hotspots automatically and shows you exactly what it is doing in a cool animated radar screen.

This page contains more than 60 variations of Support Codes that start with 85 (85XXXXXX). When an error occurs on your smartphone, be sure to write down the exact text, especially any Support Code or other distinguishing number that appears. This makes it easier to search for a specific solution to your issue.