Columnists’ corner: The year ahead is already looking like it will be “one for settling unfinished business,” explains Neil McAllister in What does 2007 hold for open source? The most disruptive event of the year-to-be, he speculates, will come in the form of the GPL version 3. “All in all, expect another exciting but turbulent year.” From the Test Center: Virtualization. SaaS. SOA. Web 2.0. Networked storage. AJAX. These are the among the technologies that manifested in product reviews throughout the past 12 months. In 2006 year in reviews, a look at them all. The news beat: Panasonic claims to have created a battery that won’t overheat. Hewlett-Packard improves the security in its HP-UX operating system with a free upgrade that encrypts data as it gets stored. And Nexaweb enhances its Enterprise Web 2.0 platform with the addition of a client framework for AJAX and Java. Technology Industry