Keyspan’s USB 2.0 Server lets multiple users share USB devices on a network and extends a USB connection–between a host PC and the USB device–over any distance, including printers, scanners, digital cameras and flash-drive memory sticks over Ethernet and WiFi. The USB 2.0 Server eliminates the need to dedicate a PC as a host for a USB device. Students, wireless office workers and road-warriors alike can access USB devices from a laptop via WiFi.

For a limited time only, all major PhatWare software titles will be discounted by 25-40% and will be sold exclusively from the PhatWare Online Software store. This offer will expire on August 19, 2007. After which, prices will go back to normal. This is a rare opportunity to purchase any PhatWare software product at significantly reduced prices.

This offer also includes a 40% discount on PhatNotes 4.7.2 Professional and Smartphone Editions. Since the new major version of PhatNotes 5.0 is scheduled for release within a month, you will get a free upgrade if you purchase PhatNotes now. This is a unique opportunity to save 40% on the upcoming version of PhatNotes, as this offer will expire before the new version is released.

Ever wonder how you’d go about creating an index for those big Adobe InDesign files? You’ve gathered your photos, written your chapters, presented everything beautifully and now you’ve got a big, dirty project ahead of you: creating an index.

Virginia Systems has announced a new series of plug-ins for InDesign that will automatically create complete book and document indexes. They’ve offered this capability for InDesign CS2, but have now made it available for the Adobe CS3 product.

We’re going to go hands-on with this product in the next few months, so we’ll have a in-depth performance review when we’re finished. Stay tuned.

The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said on Saturday.

“The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn’t work,” a hospital spokesman, whose name was not given, told TN television news station.

“The surgeons and anesthetists were in the dark… A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light,” he said.

Mobile phone companies have until Tuesday to cut by up to 70% the amount they charge customers for making and receiving calls between EU countries.

Under the new EU rules, the companies have a deadline of the end of July to offer customers anew pricing structure, with cheaper “roaming” fees.

Chapura, provider of mobile personal information management synchronization technology, has released FolderMirror 1.0. FolderMirror offers all mobile device owners, including the iPhone, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian device owners, the ability to carry and stay connected to any Outlook Calendar and Contacts folders. Wireless or wired.

LTB Audio Systems has began shipping the new Magnum 5.1 True surround sound headphone system with Microphone for PC’s with analog Hi-Definition sound cards. In addition, LTB launched the wireless Q-Bass USB headphones with a true 2.1 audio with built in subwoofers and Microphone.

Fans of Lost got a first peek at a related game under development by Ubisoft. Thirty seconds of the upcoming game were shown at the Comic-Con International conference in San Diego.

The first-person action game for the Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and PCs will be released in February to coincide with the debut of the fourth Lost season. Gamers will be able to play as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, exploring familiar locations, unraveling mysteries and puzzles, and interacting with the main characters on the show.

Like Germany’s aerial assault on England in World War II, Apple’s media campaign for the iPhone was a blitzkrieg. A revolution, it was to be the first mobile phone/handheld computer that operated solely by touch-interface; only it wasn’t the first. Weeks before the iPhone’s release, HTC quietly launched their Touch mobile phone.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

iPhone. Whether enterprises are prepared or not, it has arrived. Less than a month into its release, Apple’s multimedia, Internet-enabled phone has already received criticism regarding security, highlighted by attempts to unlock the iPhone for networks other than AT&T and a well-publicized exploit crafted by Independent Security Evaluators, Baltimore-based security testers.

It is only natural that IT organizations shiver at the thought of the iPhone endangering their networks, but they will have few options to block its entrance to the enterprise and no recourse but to prepare for it, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst at Yankee Group.