A contender enters the ring: Will Windows Mobile 6 really give BlackBerry a fight in the wireless OS world? Senior Contributing Editor and Hawaii lab guru Brian Chee says it might, based on what he's seen over the past few weeks while experimenting with a slew of mobile devices, including the new Dash (HTC S620). Check out his lists of pros and cons to find out the verdict so far. Hardware heaven: Senior Contrib A contender enters the ring: Will Windows Mobile 6 really give BlackBerry a fight in the wireless OS world? Senior Contributing Editor and Hawaii lab guru Brian Chee says it might, based on what he’s seen over the past few weeks while experimenting with a slew of mobile devices, including the new Dash (HTC S620). Check out his lists of pros and cons to find out the verdict so far.Hardware heaven: Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia is enthralled by the power and performance he’s seeing in the combination of a Sun Ultra 40 M2 and a 3Ware 9650SE SATA RAID controller: “I’ve been beating up the 9650SE and the Ultra 40 M2 with my normal brand of workstation torture — cyclic MD5 sums on multi-gigabit files, kernel recompilations, DVD ripping, MP3 encoding, and two virtual systems running under VMware Workstation 6, all while playing movies from NFS shares and running Beryl with all the widgets enabled.” So far, he says, the system still purrs. Today’s blog post details the setup and configuration process; stay tuned for more.Security on my mind: Roger Grimes has been busy of late (a security maven never sleeps), and he’s sharing several resources that could help with your own data security efforts. First, the Honeyd honeypot has been updated and ported to Windows for your intruder-trapping pleasure; second, a new report on anti-virus testing and malware collection; third, a site that recommends the best cryptography key sizes for various applications. That fits nicely with the most recent Security Adviser column and the news that the second of three password hash challenges has been cracked. One more to go… Technology Industry