The Sept. 20 edition of Fortune states that Korea will replace the United States as the world’s most influential nation, at least in the digital world . The magazine cites as reasons: government policies, competition between companies, and Korea’s particular culture.
Specific reasons for Korea’s digital success include the following:

Government stated & sponsored [...]

Sonance just announced the iPort, which is an in-wall docking station for the Apple iPod that integrates it seamlessly into any multi-room audio system as a source component.

The product announcement, which is available here, states that one can “just walk over to the iPort, drop in your iPod and your entire music library [...]

Sony has stopped selling PDAs on this side of the ocean, so its unlikely that you will ever see this nice new Clié PEG-VZ90 multimedia handheld. The device has Wi-Fi and a 3.8in 480 x 320 Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) screen.
The VZ90 supports MPEG4, MPEG1, ATRAC3 and MP3 audio/video formats. The device [...]

JVC has just announced (2 a.m. today) their brand new world’s first 1in hard disk based camcorders. The “Everio” comes in 2 flavors: the GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200, referred to as the “pocket style” and the “grip style” respectively.

Both models record to a 1inch 4GB hard disk. The unit can capture approximately 60 minutes [...]

SeatGuru.com provides information on which are the best and worst seats by airline and aircraft model number.

Trusted Reviews has a very favorable review of the new A117S notebook from Sony.

TR states that while the A117S is one of the largest notebooks, “this machine has the best screen I have ever seen on a notebook”.
They go on to say “The screen in question is a 17in (1,920 x 1,200) widescreen affair, complete [...]

Silk Webware Ltd has developed some interesting software for your phone. The first application turns your Smartphone into a mosquito repeller …

Mellow Mosquito, shown above, operates on the theory is that female mosquitoes bite humans during their breeding period. During that time females try to avoid male mosquitoes, and Mellow Mosquito emulates the sound [...]

A new study out of the University of California, indicates that reading your newspaper electronically, rather than on paper, leaves a much smaller footprint on the environment.

Specifically, when compared to reading a newspaper, receiving the news on a PDA wirelessly results in the release of 32-140 times less CO2, several orders of magnitude less NOx [...]

Samsung has introduced the first cellphone with a hard drive. The new SPH-V5400 has a 1.5 GB 1-inch hard drive in the phone for storing pictures and MP3 files. The phone also has an FM radio transmitter for sending music files from the phone to a radio.

The phone is equipped with a 2.2” [...]

The ViewSonic WMG120 is an interesting device, combining an 802.11g router, wireless access point, 4-port switch, print server, NAS device and 120gb hard drive into one device.

Supports many of the main A/V decoding formats. Seems like a great idea.