Round Up Edited by Jennifer and Sammy

According to 4WinMobile, McAfee and F-Secure are squaring up with competing mobile antivirus offerings. McAfee released VirusScan Mobile, its first antivirus product for mobile phones because, it says, the number of mobile malware incidents is set to grow. F-Secure launched F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus 2.1 for Windows Mobile, on Monday, an application that updates virus definitions on a device.

MobileWhack is reporting on the Sony MEX-BT5000, which is a car audio head unit which features Bluetooth® wireless technology. Designed specifically for the mobile lifestyle, the MEX-BT5000 automatically links to any Bluetooth mobile phone and provides handsfree calls with crystal clear sound. What’s more, with a high visibility screen you can make and receive calls during a journey without even bothering to take your mobile out from your pocket.

According to DailyTech, Micron Technology has announced that it has acquired Lexar Media in a stock-for-stock merger. The merger will give the company a better foothold in the ultra-competitive NAND flash market.

DailyTech is reporting that Intel announced that its next generation ultra-mobile processor, Monahans, will introduce significant technologies for the hand-held market. The devices include mobile phones, and pocket PCs. Intel also noted that Monahans will be introduced at speeds up to 1GHz and faster grades will come later.

According to ubergizmo, Earthcomber’s GPS-enabled maps comes with ‘Look Lists’ and ‘Community’ features that are 100% free - a refreshing change in today’s capitalistic world. You can even set up and automate your search list to constantly look for points-of-interest that will pique your curiosity as you move around the U.S. Earthcomber is one cool app for any Windows Mobile-based handhelds.

Ubergizmo is reporting that the Nokia E62 was found on the FCC page and seems to have gotten approval a few months back. Virtually identical to its sister E61, differences would be a miniUSB port to replace the Pop-Up port and 2.5mm jack instead of stereo output and the slight difference in the QWERTY keyboard layout.

The BBC talks about the Handheld PC dominates Cebit start today, Handheld PC dominates Cebit start.

Origami unveiled: See Microsoft's new micro-PC in action in this BBC video.

One of my favorite Palm games is Thieves and Kings and if you have never read Jan's review then you should because it really gives you a good background to what Thieves and Kinds is all about.

Hands-on with the HTC Hermes / T-Mobile MDA Vario II is new at Engadget.

1GB SD Card for $19.99 after rebate sounds like a good offer and the MobileRead is carrying the details.

TamsPalm lets us know that starting to program the Palm OS is a rather difficult task(especially if you don’t know C, altough this can help you). After having overcome the walls of C, however, new skills await you. You need to get a grasp on an entirely new set of API’s, a new aproach to data storage,… .SDK documentation CAN be helpful, but one always wishes for a tutorial at some point in time. PalmSource has its sample code dump, yeah, but Eric Poncet wrote up a nice bunch of examples.

TreoCentral have reviewed Earthcomber. "With winter winding down and the warmer months fast approaching, many of us are beginning to think about planning vacations, or just getting out of work or school for a while and goofing off. Take a break from the daily grind, the stressful commute. Whether your intention is to get as far away as possible or to stick close to home and just take it easy, Earthcomber's free mobile navigation software can help turn your downtime into exploring just for the fun of it time. "

According to Pocket PC Thoughts, Intel and NVIDIA have joined forces to help deliver new Monahans/GoForce-powered handheld devices. Intel announced the Monahans in August 2005 by demonstrating a new PXA29x processor clocked at 1.25GHz. Furthermore, NVIDIA announced the GoForce 5500 last month, with some very impressive power to go with it. With these two combined, we could be looking at a new wave of Pocket PCs (and other handhelds) that may potentially leave the Dell Axim X50v/X51v out to dry.

MobileWhack reports that Sandisk today introduced the SanDisk Ultra II Mobile line of flash memory cards for multimedia-enabled mobile phones, at the CeBIT Hannover, Germany. Exclusively designed for Mobile phones with memory card slots, the Ultra II Mobile memory cards have faster read and write speeds than standard flash memory cards, as well as longer warranty periods.