DataViz announced that RoadSync, its Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client now supports mailbox subfolders and select Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 mobile enhancements. These new features include online mailbox search, email flags, SharePoint and UNC (Universal Naming Convention) file access and faster email message and attachment retrieval. Based on the Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of email, calendar, contacts and attachments. The RoadSync version 3.0 update is the only solution available to support mailbox subfolders and Exchange 2007 mobile enhancements for S60 3rd Edition devices on Symbian OS V9 such as the popular Nokia E-Series and N-Series and newly released E90, E65 and E61i phones.

The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials. MySpace is licensing technology from Audible Magic, which late last year obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors–such as a unique digital fingerprint–to compare with vectors stored in a database.

DataWind Net Access Corporation, “DataWind,” a provider of wireless Web access products and services, unveiled the new version of PocketSurfer, the world’s fastest handheld Internet device. PocketSurfer is an ultra thin, sleek mobile device, the first of its kind to actually deliver the full power and original graphic intensity of the desktop Web, rapidly and wirelessly–to the palm of your hand. PocketSurfer downloads Web pages at the speedy rate of 7-9 seconds per page, the fastest way to view the Web on any cellular network. PocketSurfer is the only handheld Internet device in its size category able to render Web pages in their original layout, with full graphic functionality.

24access, a provider of solutions that enable a two way connection between a PC and a mobile device, announced the launch of Mobile Media Center. Mobile Media Center is a totally new product that for the first time allows consumers to access all the content stored on their PC through their mobile phone. MMC is available immediately for consumers to download for free. Mobile Media Center has been designed and created to allow consumers the opportunity to access content from any mobile handset through any provider. Now saved content such as photos, music and films can be viewed, listened to and watched using a mobile phone.

Research In Motion introduced the highly anticipated BlackBerry 8800–a feature-rich and finely tuned smartphone that is both functionally and visually inspiring. The BlackBerry 8800 is the thinnest BlackBerry handset yet and is designed to satisfy the most demanding mobile professionals. Equipped with a full, highly tactile QWERTY keyboard and RIM’s user-friendly trackball navigation system, it also includes built-in GPS, multimedia features and a microSD expandable memory slot.

A pair of tickets to some tropical place as a Valentine’s Day surprise has its appeal. Unfortunately, time, money, and reality may preclude it. In lieu of that getaway, there’s always the latest tech goodies–sexy yet practical, stylish and built to last. Don’t neglect the card, flowers, chocolates, or candlelit dinner, but he or she will still be enjoying the right gadget when the perishable gifts are fond but distant memories.

With Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft set a skilled handyman to work on the creakier joists of its mobile operating system, but stopped well short of a gut renovation. The new OS is really more of an honorable Version 5.5 than a true 6–an accumulation of new, useful features that doesn’t disturb the operating system’s underpinnings or solve some of its deeper problems. The biggest change with Windows Mobile 6, in fact, is probably the names. Say goodbye to Pocket PC and Smartphone. Say hello to Professional, which means former Pocket PC phones, with touch-screens; Standard, which are former Smartphones, without touch-screens; and Classic, for those few remaining touch-screen PDAs without phone capability. Windows Mobile 5 users won’t be wowed when they boot up a Windows Mobile 6 device. Devices still take 40 seconds or so to start up, and performance is roughly the same as measured by Spb Benchmark and TCPMP video tests. On the other hand, the new version doesn’t break most third-party software; all of the software eWeek tried, including Opera Mobile, Spb Benchmark, Skype, TCPMP and StyleTap, still worked.

Among the most intriguing technologies being shown off at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco is a mobile penetration testing application made by Miami Beach-based Immunity that allows people to scan networks for vulnerabilities on the go. Dubbed Silica, the sleek handheld, based on a Nokia tablet device, claims the ability to test wireless network security using Wi-Fi technology–with other form factors and support for Bluetooth and wired Ethernet connectivity planned for delivery by Immunity soon.

Apparently, if you exceed an arbitrary usage level, [[http://techbasic.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=1|Comcast shuts you down]]. What’s sad is they advertise unlimited bandwidth and while they shut you down for exceeding certain restrictions, they don’t specify those restrictions. Odd.

BoxWave announced they have released their ClearTouch Screen Protectors for the LG VX8500/8600 Chocolate, and the FlexiSkin case for the Motorola K1m.