Cisco IP Phones to Tap XML. The company announced a high-end phone with a color touch-screen and XML support, which will allow it to act as a "mini-browser." Two lower-end models also will gain support for the markup language. [eWEEK Technology News]

The downside of Sharp's new wireless TV. Guy Kewney notes that stream video over WiFi using one of those new battery-powered wireless LCD televisions from Sharp that you can carry around the house with you has one significant downside: it cuts the data capacity of the rest of your wireless network (assuming you have one) in half:The set uses Sharp's SmartLink wireless digital audio video transmission system, which operates on the 802.11b wireless standard. It allows users to connect the transmitter to a video source, such as a DVD player, and watch their favourite movie or TV show in any room of the house. Some will probably be pleased to see digital sending move from broad spectrum coverage to a WiFi channel, leaving the other channels open for data; but the reality is that streaming video over one channel will pretty much halve the data capacity of the access point.Read... [Gizmodo]

Sony's video recorder for Clies. Yet another hot gadget from Sony today that's only coming out in Japan (at least as far as we know), this one a little box that's specially designed for recording television shows for playback on a Clie handheld. The PEGA-VR100K is basically a TV tuner that digitizes programs in a format (320x240 pixels) that can be easily watched on a Clie, and then stores them onto a MemoryStick. The next logical step would be for Sony to build something like this into its line of CoCoon digital video recorders, so that you could have the option of taking a show with you to watch on your PDA if you don't have time to watch it at home. But I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that. Read... [Gizmodo]

PocketMusic now also for Smartphone [infoSync]

Alaska Air's digEplayer. Alaska Air is going to start giving its first class passengers (and renting to coach passengers) a portable handheld video and audio player to keep them entertained in-flight. Called the digEplayer, it will have nine movies (it can store up to thirty), three TV shows, and ten hours of music stored on its hard drive when it becomes available later this year. The big incentive for people not to steal the players is that it uses a proprietary battery that can't be easily recharged, and to prevent bootlegging, once the battery dies all of the music or movies or TV shows on it are encrypted so there's no way to replay any of it. We're also assuming that they're going to make the proles in coach class put down a credit card number. Read... [Gizmodo]

Pretec's 6GB CompactFlash card. From Pretec, a massive 6 gigabyte CompactFlash memory card. Let's just pause and think about that for a moment. And the price is even bigger: just one of these costs $4,499.95, which makes you wonder that someone must need to have 6 gigabytes of storage on a single card really, really badly to justify shelling out that much cash. Read... [Gizmodo]

Motorola breaks out mini-GPS module. The wireless gear maker unveil a new GPS gadget for use in cellular handsets and other location devices that’s smaller than a dime. [CNET News.com]

Cellphones That Reach Alter Egos. Whenever you slip your cellphone into the FastForward cradle, it automatically routes incoming cell calls to your home or office phone. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]

A Speedy Drive That Can Slip Into Your Pocket. Luckily for people whose file sizes have outgrown the mere megabyte or so of space on a diskette, pocket-size flash memory drives that can hold 32 megabytes or more keep getting smaller and faster. The tiny Verbatim Store 'n' Go U.S.B. Drive, equipped with a high-speed U.S.B. 2.0 connection, can copy 256 megabytes of data in 30 seconds, making it at least five times faster than drives that have the older U.S.B. 1.1 connection. By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology]