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Users of the T-Mobile G1 know some of the pains of having to use it for business purposes: like a lack of appropriate PDF, Word Doc, email attachment, and Excel support. Recently while trying to find a New York City subway map optimized for my phone I found that a feature in Opera Mini 4.2 [...]

Following statements from Klipsch and Scosche announcing that iPod shuffle 3G-compatible earphones were in development, Etymotic, V-Moda, and Monster have all come forward to make similar statements. Etymotic said "an upcoming version of its headsets will support the new integrated control functions of Apple's third-generation iPod shuffle," without listing possible pricing or release dates, while Monster said it would be adding.

Mozilla has released its Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 web browser, intended for developers and testers for evaluation and feedback. The open-source Firefox browser, which holds a competitive position over Apple Safari and Google Chrome, but still trails the all powerful microsoft internet explorer, claims this version features a number of improvements, including increased support for new Web technologies, and is stable. - Mozilla is rolling out the 3.1 beta of its popularFirefox Web browser March 12. The new version of the open-source browser is intended fordevelopers and testers for evaluation and feedback, but Firefox nonethelessclaims that the beta release is stable. While Microsoft internet explorer ha...

Samsung has quietly announced its S7220 Lucido candybar 3G-supported cell phone, which features an attractive brushed metal design, an AMOLED display, and a 5 megapixel camera.Read the full story here.

Supplied in 2U chassis, 8-bay enterprise-grade TS-809U-RP Turbo NAS is powered by 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and features 2 GB DDRII memory. It supports 8 hot-swappable SATA HDDs and offers up to 16 TB storage, while redundant power supply and 2 Giga LAN ports aid in load balancing/failover. Along with RAID support, expansion, and level migration, features include iSCSI with thin provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, and HDD SMART.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Client, Data, File, network & Web Servers | Network Storage Systems | Data Storage & Retrieval Systems

Based on Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express Chipset with ICH7M, IB804 PC/104 Plus is suited for Internet devices and applications in automation, industrial control, data acquisition, thin client, and embedded PCs. It features Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator 950 core, 1x DDR2 SO-DIMM up to 1 GB, and supports display interfaces including VGA, CRT and single channel 18-bit LVDS displays. Interfaces include Gigabit LAN, 1 IDE port, 2 RS-232 serial ports, and 4 USB 2.0 high-speed ports.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Single Board Computers

Delivering triple display output, WADE-8046 has two 200-pin DIMMs to support dual channel DDR2 SO-DIMM up to 4 GB, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 1 expansion PCI-Express slot, and 1 Mini PCI Express socket. WADE-8065 offers 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports to provide wide bandwidth necessary for communications or network related applications, 2 COM ports and 6 USB ports, and expansion via 1 PCI slot. Intel 945GME chipset-based, low power units suit applications such as industrial automation and control.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: embedded computers | computer Boards | Motherboards

Defeat Globalism writes in with a Canadian court decision that has ordered a man suing over injuries from a car accident to answer questions about content on his private 'friends only' Facebook page. 'Lawyers for Janice Roman, the defendant in the lawsuit, believe information posted on John Leduc's private Facebook site — normally accessible only to his approved 'friends' — may be relevant to his claim an accident in Lindsay in 2004 lessened his enjoyment of life. As a result of the ruling by Justice David Brown of Ontario's Superior Court of Justice, Leduc must now submit to cross-examination by Roman's lawyers about what his Facebook page contains. Brown's Feb. 20 ruling also makes clear that lawyers must now explain to their clients 'in appropriate cases' that postings on Facebook or other networking sites — such as MySpace, LinkedIn and even blogs — may be relevant to allegations in a lawsuit, said Tariq Remtulla, a Toronto lawyer who has been following the

An anonymous reader writes 'Following the long-awaited release of FFmpeg 0.5, Phoronix has conducted an interview with three FFmpeg developers (Diego Biurrun, Baptiste Coudurier, and Robert Swain) about this project's recent release. In this interview they talk about moving to a 3/6-month release cycle, the criteria for version 1.0, Blu-Ray support on Linux, OpenCL and GPGPU acceleration, multi-threading FFmpeg, video APIs, their own video codecs, and legal challenges they have run into.' of this story at Slashdot.

Firefox has been updated adding support for HTML 5. The browsers JavaScript and rendering engines were also updated.