Kingston Technology has released a new Mobility Kit that promises to allow mobile consumers to use a single gig of memory as an all-in-one storage solution for multiple devices leveraging four different memory formats.

The idea is to maximize value and convenience. So in addition to a 1GB microSD card, the kit bundles a USB card reader and two adapters–one for miniSD and the other for full-size SD card slots. That way you can use the microSD card not just in cell phones and smartphones that support that format, but others that otherwise wouldn’t be compatible.

Samsung’s initial foray into ultraportable personal computers elicited enough gripes–about the Q1’s steep price and its lack of a keyboard–to make some manufacturers flee the market. Instead, Samsung stood its ground and responded with the stylish Q1 Ultra.

The Q1 Ultra delivers several notable improvements over the original Q1. These include an 800-Mhz ultralow-voltage processor Relevant Products/Services from Intel, a Windows Vista operating system, the ability to connect to cellular data networks, and a built-in Webcam for videoconferencing. What’s more, Samsung has made the device lighter, about 1.5 pounds, and added a built-in keyboard and other features that simplify navigation.

The top three U.S. wireless service providers said on Friday they would start selling the successor to Motorola’s Razr phone, which includes a 2 Megapixel camera and a music player. Motorola had unveiled the Razr2, a slimmer version of its once-lauded flagship Razr, in May amid flagging market share due to a lack of advanced phones.

The company has faced criticism for cutting the price of its original Razr phone too quickly and for depending too much on the Razr, which has sold 100 million phones since late 2004, instead of coming up with new product concepts.

Call management can be broken down into three distinct areas: Incoming, During and Post-Call (after the call). YourCall 2.0 provides a comprehensive selection of actions that can be taken in all three areas–before, during and after. Photo Caller ID, City-level location information, Call blocking, ignoring, Quick Select & Ignore with Text, Quick lookups, On-The-Fly PIM Item Creation, Mapping, 411 reverse number lookups, Quick Action and Google SMS integration are just a few of the new capabilities which YourCall 2.0 makes available through the call. Most of which can also be fully automated using its all new “Auto Actions”.

Additionally, version 2.0 is available in 2 edition: Standard ($14.95) and Professional ($19.95). The first one keeps its focus on the After-Call experience, while the Professional includes incoming and ongoing call management.

It’s not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES 2006. Yet Google Video’s commercial aspirations have indeed been terminated: the company has announced that it will no longer be selling video content on the site. The news isn’t all that surprising, given that Google’s commercial video efforts were launched in rather poor shape and never managed to take off. The service seemed to only make the news when embarrassing things happened.

The popular 1950s paint-by-numbers pastime is now portable. Aficionados who are on the go can now color paint-by-numbers images without an Internet connection or even a desktop computer. Walnut Creek, California, software developer SegTech recently introduced SegPlayMobile, a hand-held paint-by-number program for Windows Mobile 5 devices supporting the Pocket PC program environment. The mobile version adds to the company’s successful launch of SegPlayPC in September, 2006.

Ascender Corporation, a provider of advanced font products for hardware and software developers, announced that the Microsoft fonts which Microsoft has recently announced as being licensed to Apple are available from Ascender for licensing to other software and hardware companies, and also directly to end users.

Microsoft and Ascender have an agreement which enables Ascender to offer Microsoft’s extensive font library, which includes multilingual fonts and fonts tuned for on-screen display and high resolution printing. These fonts include Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet and Verdana–fonts which can be found in the Apple iPhone and other Apple products. The Microsoft fonts can be integrated into a Web browser on any device or operating system to offer the best user experience.

eMobiStudio announced the release of MemoryUp Standard Edition v1.5, a powerful Java virtual machine management and RAM boosting tool specially designed for high-end smartphones and BlackBerry.

What MemoryUp exactly does is to take control of JVM for each mobile system, smartly analyze running J2ME programs (including hidden programs), automatically allocate and recover respective occupied RAM, and boost system to its best performance. In case of some applications are no longer active on a smartphone or BlackBerry, MemoryUp can reclaim lost resources and put them to better use. By reclaiming resources, the mobile system does not need to access the hard drive as frequently. This will greatly enhance mobile phone’s overall performance.

Sprite Software announced the launch of Sprite Backup 6.0, the newest edition of their Microsoft Windows Mobile backup and recovery software. Sprite Backup 6.0 adds significant new functionality to its already powerful feature-set and is the first solution of its kind to fully support Windows Mobile 6 storage card encryption. It addresses an oversight in the design by Microsoft which rendered encrypted data inaccessible after a device hard-reset. It also offers additional off-device content protection with its remote backup capability which allows backups to be sent over-the-air. Sprite Backup 6.0 also now provides smartphone owners a way to move their entire phone content to a replacement handset. Sprite Backup is designed to create a backup image of your mobile device, including contacts, calendars, data, applications, configuration and settings. This image can be quickly and easily restored to your device if ever you need to do a hard-reset, effectively allowing you to be back up and running within minutes, not hours.

As hard drive manufacturers relentlessly pursue packing greater aerial density on smaller devices, Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. may have an ace in the hole. The company is announcing that it has created ideally “ordered” alumina nanohole patterns for isolated bit-by-bit recording on a large disk area.

With that feat, Fujitsu says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to perform basic read/write capability of each individual nanohole of the patterned media using a typical flying head on a rotating disk. That breakthrough could lead the company to produce hard drives with storage capacities of up to 1.2TB on a two-platter, 2.5-in. drive as soon as 2010.