MobileRead Week in Review: 01/16 - 01/23

[Alexander Turcic]

Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week:

Announcements
Customize your MR frontpage (reminder)
Individual feeds at MobileRead (reminder)

Avantgo
Avantgo'05 receives positive review

Browsers
WebToGo 4.3 released

Current E-Books Trends
German library allowed to crack copy protection
Pirates publish e-books on copyright theft

E-Book Readers
Bookeen Cybook review at ZDNet UK

E-Book Webstores
Diesel eBooks adds mobile browser support
Fictionwise Nebula Nominee freebie: Aloha

General Chat
Consumer-electronics firms join to develop new DRM
On time management with PDAs
Paris Hilton's Blackberry hacked
This week's Handango freebies for Palm, PPC, etc.

Other Gadgets
Universal wireless charging: the Splashpower solution

Other Readers
RefToGo.com Concise Oxford English Dictionary announced
Wikipedia for TomeRaider updated 12/2004

Palm
FontSmoother 1.0 for Palm OS released
Fool.com's advice on palmOne stock
Landscape mode for Sony Clie NX/NZ/TH devices
No New Zodiac Until 2006
Palm OS soon in the lead with VGA devices?

Pocket PC
Axim X50 WEP key exposure: bad, yet not that bad
Dell Axim X50v review: "Best PDA ever."
Fitaly 3.5 for WM2003 SE released
NetFront V3.3 mobile browser with PDF support
Run Other PCs from your PPC

Portable Audio/Video
In a Fool's view: the Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle
iPod2PC makes backups of your iPod songs
Next generation iPod mini and iPod: "Q22B" and "Q98"