Back in August, Samsung released the first Windows Mobile ROM update for its SGH-i900 Omnia smartphone which Samsung initially made available to Singaporean customers only. And as mentioned, it's worth to keep an eye on Samsung's Omnia update page since Samsung has released a couple of more updates for other countries as well now. While it's not yet clear what the new ROM improves or enhances, the 108 MB download is now available for i900 users in Italy, France, Malaysia, the Philippines as well as Singapore. Unfortunately Samsung hasn't released any release notes nor is it known which languages the ROM updates are (most likely the country languages) and therefore a cross-update isn't suggested.

It became somewhat silent about Mozilla's Firefox Mobile (code-named "Fennec"), development and except some concept studies, the Mozilla Foundation hasn't unveiled too much about its upcoming/planned Firefox version for smartphones which will also supports Windows Mobile. However, John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla unveiled in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News that the development team might be ready to release a first working prototype soon: "The first thing is to bring Firefox to mobile devices. We're working on that, and we'll see some alphas in a few weeks".

The bad news reached us yesterday night via Twitter, HTC America has currently no plans to launch its upcoming flagship Windows Mobile Professional smartphone, the HTC Touch HD, in North America. The HTC spokesperson said "sad news, US. we looked into it- by the time we could bring Touch HD to the states, it would be old news". Nevertheless, it was also mentioned that HTC has "other cool stuff coming", while it's not yet clear if this means new, yet unknown, Windows Mobile smartphones or devices like the T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone which is manufactured by HTC.

Sling Media has launched the Slingbox in the UK and Sweden some time ago already but now it comes to more countries across Europe, including Germany. Founded in 2004, Sling Media, Inc. invented a new product category called place-shift and Sling Media is a different kind of consumer electronics company - one that's working to demystify convergence technologies and to create empowering experiences for the digital media consumer. The focus of Sling Media is to embrace - not replace - existing products and standards by enhancing them with hardware and software that make divergent technologies compatible and greatly improve the consumer experience. Because, after all, can't we all just get along?!

Since LG released its LG KS20 roughly 1.5 years ago, LG became pretty silent in terms of Windows Mobile but both, the FCC as well as the GCF recently approved a new device called the LG KS500. If you follow LG's naming scheme, there is a good chance that the KS500 might be the Windows Mobile follower of the KS200 (while it could also be LG's Android device). Not too much is known yet but the GCF unveiled that the KS500 is a triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE device and singleband UMTS/HSDPA  mobile phone while the FCC confirmed that the KS500 features Bluetooth as well.