Best of the blogs: Oliver Rist is reporting live from the show floor at CES, where he is peering under the covers at a Flybook, Jawbone, a deal from Packet8, and Buffalo Technology’s new TeraStation. Columnists’ corner: Heading into the (somewhat) unexpected, IT shops have taken to altering policy themselves, without third-party technology providers in the room, explains Tom Yager in IT is calling the shots again. “Green computing, consolidation, and virtualization looked like easily co-opted missions, but IT insisted on tackling these its own way, and no two organizations are running the same playbook,” he writes. “This will be a year during which vendors adjust to the fact that convenience, risk aversion, and status quo are not permanent IT priorities.” The news beat: Microsoft confirms that the NSA helped with the security in Windows Vista, a fact that some say could be reason for concern. The One Laptop Per Child program shows off $130 notebooks at CES and maintains that it intends to sell systems for $100 by 2008. And Apple’s iPhone sends worldwide handset stocks down, including those of RIM and Palm. Technology Industry