Best of the blogs: Now that the Fake Steve Jobs has been outed, who steps into the blazed path but a blogger posing as Larry Ellison. "I don't know who is writing this one, but I think it's even funnier than the FSJ blog," opines Zack Urlocker in this Open Sources post. After a glance, I'll second that. The cast of characters includes Jonathan Schwartz, Marten Mickos and, of course, Paris Hilton, Ellison's not-so-trusty sidekick.

Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely, as he does every Friday, offers the geek week in review. This time it's the especially odd items that roused his curiosity. Like the bullets that sparked an Internet slowdown, spies using Web 2.0 technologies, Femtocells, and the most risque robbery weapon to be used in some time.

The news beat: IBM hints that it might open source parts of Jazz, its framework for collaborative development. Spam fighters strike at criminals' weak spots in attempts to eradicate the Web sites that serve unsolicited e-mail. Via announces a 1-watt processor for mobile devices, which is called Eden ULV and is intended for mobile devices, though it can run Windows or Linux. And, following Cringe's tale of gunshot Internet outages above, Cogent says that cable was attacked by thieves with saws -- and that technicians actually swapped in replacement cable that already had those pesky bullet holes.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2007 09:49 AM