Best of the blogs: Readers are understandably frustrated about advertised features that are missing in action on the actual products. In today’s Gripe Line, Ed Foster reveals a long-promised feature from Sprint that has yet to materialize: A reader complains of plunking down $350 for what he was told was an EVDO-capable smartphone, only to have two years go by (and his phone contract lapse) with nary a sign of Sprint enabling EVDO capability in its 6600 phone. Get the full story here. In the news: Intel unleashes another round of cuts in its price battles with AMD. The tit-for-tat price war has been painful for both companies, but great for users. An IEEE group agrees to work on a single Ethernet standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. A standard for the faster Ethernet may be completed by mid-2010. The FBI reports that a series of raids and arrests in China has ended what is estimated to be the world’s largest software piracy syndicate. The gang has been in operation for more than six years, producing fraudulent copies of software from Microsoft and Symantec.Enterprise computing: What’s an IT staff to do if the CEO gets an iPhone? While IT managers are likely skeptical of letting iPhones on their networks, there are a few easy steps they can take to make their lives easier (and their boss ecstatic). Find out the full story here. Technology Industry