MobileRead Week in Review: 02/20 - 02/27

[Alexander Turcic]

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

Current E-Books Trends
E-books - do YOU read them?

General Chat
Alex speaking from Flight LH 432
Beware of generic batteries
Editorial: Do You Need "Zippiness" in Your PDA?
First Scandinavian newspaper (1749) digitalized for download
Gadget makers ignoring elderly people
Mobile users don't keep backups of important numbers
What in the world is 'Awasu'?

iSilo/X
iSilo 4.25 and iSiloX/C 4.25 enter beta2

New Links
Announcing RSS-to-Memo
Wapedia - Wikipedia for mobile access

Other Gadgets
Paris Hilton's Sidekick hacked yet again
S101/S101K Remote Office Access Device

Palm
News on first Cobalt SmartPhone
Palm May Bundle WiFi Cards With Some PDAs
PalmOne Treo 650 in Europe not before Q2 2005
PalmOne with Steve Jobs mentality?
PalmSource abandoning HotSync
Sony to end Clie production despite all hope
Treo 650 arrives in Mexico in first week of April

Pocket PC
Mini-Mozilla available for Pocket PCs in Summer'05
NewsBreak 1.01 released
Pocket Informant 2005 in public beta soon
Tillanosoft's SmallMenu 3.15 released
WebIS Mail 2.06 out

Portable Audio/Video
Apple boosts storage capacity of iPods

Smartphones
Embedded Linux soon in every mobile device?

Sunrise
Sunrise 0.41f released
Sunrise Viewer - first details

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
US is a ready market for aerial Internet