Columnist's corner: Carriers are working long and hard to forestall the coming of VoIP on cellphones, but DiVitas has opened the door with its MCA gateway device, featured this week by Oliver Rist in Enterprise Windows. And to see the future of computing, check out IBM's latest rev of its Power chip architecture in this week's Ahead of the Curve. Tom Yager argues that Power6 may be more deserving of the headlines that will likely be grabbed by AMD's Barcelona CPU.

Best of the blogs: One of the great things about blogs is being able to comment about content after the fact. Dave Linthicum expands upon the ideas in his Enterprise mashups article in today's Real World SOA blog. And in Test Center Daily we preview Business Objects' newest BI platform release, which has more than meets the eye.

The news beat: The Internet is a reflection of society, and problems of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes are more social and economic than technical, according to Google's chief Internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf. An IBM veteran has become the first woman to win the prestigious Turing Award, for her work on program optimization. Details of Sony's new digital cameras were leaked on the Internet a week ahead of schedule. And a European consumer group contends that cuts in roaming fees are a mere smokescreen that have had no effect on charges overall.

Posted by Caroline Craig on February 21, 2007 06:01 AM