PDAs to track Olympic VIPs in Beijing (ZDNet)

Foreign dignitaries, guests of major sponsors, and Olympic officials alike will be given a modified PDA at this year's Beijing Olympics, which will allow organizers to track their movements and make it easier to arrange a cab.

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Voices of Africa honoured by Webby Awards (AfricaNews)

The mobile project Voices of Africa is recognized as an Official Honoree by the Webby Awards 2008, the leading international honor for the Web. Voices of Africa gives African reporters the opportunity to report with mobile phones about events in their country.

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Muni Wireless Is Dead. Here Comes a New Way to Connect (Wired)

U.S. cities that once trumpeted their free public WiFi plans are muting their fanfare, as project after project stumbles. Now nonprofits have a plan to succeed where city governments have failed.

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Symantec: Malware Tops 1 Million (Digital Trends)

In its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec says the number of malicious programs it knows about now tops 1.1 million...and almost two third of them appeared in 2007.

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Storing data in three dimensions with racetrack memory (Ars Technica)

New work from IBM's Almaden Research Lab published in this week's edition of Science discusses the creation of a single nanowire that functions as a racetrack memory device. The result is memory that extends physical storage into the third dimension.

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Blu-ray players to connect with iPod, iPhone (TG Daily)

Interactive media company Netblender has reportedly created a new program for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to connect to their Blu-ray players via an Internet link.

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