Proporta has released a new Wireless FM Transmitter that allows you to listen to your music directly from your MP3 player through your car stereo or any source with a radio frequency.

Just replace your headphones by plugging in the Proporta Wireless FM Transmitter. It then transmits your music from your personal MP3 player to your stereo clearly and powerfully, using a selected stereo frequency that is clearly labeled on the front.

Sprint customers will soon get GPS-enabled navigation service for free as part of certain data packages.

The service will be available to customers with Power Vision data plans starting at $20 a month, and it comes in a package that also includes Internet browsing, digital radio and streaming video.

Navigation services are enabled by global positioning satellite, or GPS, technology. Phones are embedded with GPS chips, which receive signals from low orbiting satellites. The satellites then track the location of these devices.

The Video Game Decency Act of 2006 was one of a handful of pieces of proposed federal legislation that failed to get traction in Congress last year. But it is by no means an abandoned issue.

Much as Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., did with the recently resurrected Truth in Video Game Rating Act, the legislator behind the Video Game Decency Act is taking a second crack at the idea by resubmitting a functionally identical version of the bill to Congress.

GenieView announced that it has successfully implemented near-real-time video streaming to a BlackBerry Pearl smartphone. Depending on the cellular network in use, time of day, and network traffic, video delay can be as low as one second. GenieView has been working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Explosive Disposal and Technology Section on streaming near-real-time video over the cellular network to a computer or a handheld device.

PORTA, the leading wireless telecommunications company in Ecuador, and Palm, announced the availability of the Treo 680 smartphone, a blend of elegance and functionality aimed at technology-conscious people looking for a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized.

Proporta has released their Alu-Leather Case in both Book and Flip style, as well as their Advanced Screen Protector, for the HTC P4350, also known as the Herald.

3CX, a developer of a software-based IP PBX for Windows, announced that it will give away 100,000 free phone systems. Companies are encouraged to take advantage of this offer to experience firsthand the benefits of an IP PBX when compared with traditional proprietary hardware PBX.

3CX Phone System is a complete software-based office phone system that replaces a traditional hardware PBX. It liberates companies from cumbersome phone wiring and solves the management headaches associated with proprietary PBXs. Since 3CX Phone System is based on the open SIP standard it works with any SIP-based VOIP provider, VOIP gateway or phone. The product integrates easily with most business networks because it runs on Windows.

Nothing, well almost nothing, is more compelling to boys of any age than destroying things, especially if you know you’re not going to get in trouble doing it. With that in mind, you can begin to understand our excitement when the Unotron Washable Wireless Keyboard showed up for review. To us, the word “washable” doesn’t mean what it means to normal people. To us, the word “washable” means “OK to sink and drown”. Read this review to find out if the Unotron Washable Keyboard managed to swim…or sink.

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PhatWare’s PenCommander 2.0 application has successfully completed certification testing at VeriTest for the Microsoft Certified for Windows Vista logo program.

The “Certified for Windows Vista” logo is a compatibility designation for applications and devices that have passed a rigorous testing program on computers that are running Windows Vista. The technical requirements for this designation target four core areas: reliability, security, compatibility with Windows Vista and future operating systems, and installation and removal.

PenCommander for Tablet PC features a new powerful technology which allows you to use your pen to call up commands that can control your computer in almost limitless ways, such as editing documents, inserting often-repeated text into documents, and launching applications.

As worldwide desktop shipments continue to slow, notebooks are expected to represent more than half of all client PCs by 2011, according to an IDC report released Tuesday.

Desktop shipments grew an anemic 2 percent to 138.3 million in 2006, while portables–a category that doesn’t include handhelds–jumped 26.3 percent to 82.4 million, according to the report.