Shortly after debuting the Treo 600 smartphone on its network, Verizon Wireless has unveiled a new mobile email offering that immediately forwards emails sent to a customer’s PC to their Treo 600. The service is compatible with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

We’ve now got a great new feature, accessible from the home page of this magazine, that lists articles by category. So far, we’ve categorized all the OutlookPower articles, but are still in the process for Computing Unplugged (which has 875 articles we need to sort and structure). In the meantime, definitely take a look at the Articles by Category feature and we’ll let you know when all the articles are online. After these two magazines are done, we’ll tackle the other three. DominoPower has nearly 600 we need to categorize, but that’s a lot of great information!

Another version of the Bagle virus is on the loose, and some security experts and administrators say it is among the more persistent viruses they’ve seen all year. Bill Franklin, president of Miami-based Zero Spam Network said his company’s servers have been bombarded by copies of the new variant all day stating, "This is by far the worst one of the year."

Microsoft has created a new business unit dedicated to strengthening its relationships with the media and entertainment industry. The software maker said it hopes the unit, which it calls the Media/Entertainment & Technology Convergence Group, will help it tap new opportunities created by the cross-fertilization of personal computers with other electronic devices.

Microsoft said that it is expanding a program to give its Most Valuable Professionals access to Windows source code. Last October, it launched the Source Licensing Program for MVPs, who are technology enthusiasts outside of Microsoft recognized for their contributions to the company’s online support community.

Microsoft will pay Linux seller Lindows $20 million to settle a long-running trademark dispute. In exchange for the payment, Lindows, which recently renamed most of its products "Linspire" to work around European trademark suits, will give up the Lindows name and assign related Web domains to Microsoft.

The University of California hit back at Microsoft in its pitched patent battle over fundamental Web browsing technology. UC and its one-man software spinoff Eolas on July 16 filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit, in Washington, D.C., to counter Microsoft’s request for an appeal in a patent infringement case that has rattled the Web.

The buzz around a new variant of the Atak worm, initially dubbed Atak.B, with its reported connection to the terrorist group Al Qaeda, may be greater than the threat itself, security professionals observed. Security researchers generally categorized the threat level of this new variant as low, thanks in part to the minimal risk presented by the original Atak.A worm.

In a keynote during his company’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the software giant believes there is currently a great opportunity to lure Lotus Notes users away from IBM’s software, saying that he and Notes customers "don’t know what the heck IBM is doing" and that IBM has offered mixed messages about the future of the messaging client.

A federal court has ordered a California man to pay $4 million to Microsoft for allegedly using the software giant’s product names fraudulently as part of a spam scheme. Microsoft announced that Judge Manuel Real of the US Central District Court of California had issued a summary judgment against Daniel Khoshnood of Canoga Park, Calif., and his businesses, Pointcom and Joshuathan Investments.