DiVitas handless wireless hand-offs: Getting cut off in the middle of a phone call isn't just annoying; it's not good for business. DiVitas has devised a wireless solution, its Mobile Convergence Appliance, lets a mobile-phone user seamlessly move from cellular to Wi-Fi to Bluetooth, and Senior Contributing Editors Brian Chee and Oliver Rist had a chance to give it a try. Their conclusion: "It delivers better co DiVitas handless wireless hand-offs: Getting cut off in the middle of a phone call isn’t just annoying; it’s not good for business. DiVitas has devised a wireless solution, its Mobile Convergence Appliance, lets a mobile-phone user seamlessly move from cellular to Wi-Fi to Bluetooth, and Senior Contributing Editors Brian Chee and Oliver Rist had a chance to give it a try. Their conclusion: “It delivers better connectivity for your users, but considerable cost savings for organizations with lots of road warriors.” (Check out our video of the wireless-to-wired rollover, too.)The SOA way: Over in the Real World SOA blog, Dave Linthicum offers a recap of a discussion from InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum in the Big Apple. The topic was linking processes to services, and some of the points included the fact that “SOA has always included business processes … [though] many people think it’s new,” and “processes are able to abstract distributed services turning them into solutions within a SOA.” Microsoft to pad patch previews: Surprises can be fun, but not if you’re, say, an IT admin bracing for a patch to an undefined problem. Yet every month, admins at Windows shops have had to endure several days of waiting and wondering specifically what was coming the pike on Patch Tuesday. Well, Redmond has announced that it’s improving the process, the IDG News Service reports, letting you know not just what apps will be patched and how important the patches are — but also offering a summary of the problem. Technology Industry