Columnist’s corner: Even though Apple messed up the iPhone, Oliver Rist writes, “much of the device’s problems aren’t technical, but just bad business.” Not so for Windows Mobile, which is plagued by troubled technology, including ActiveSync issues, Wi-Fi woes, application incompatibility, and worse, its very own Blue Screen of Death. “Microsoft has all the advantages that count in this space right now,” Rist adds in Windows Mobile needs fixing fast. “The company really has the chance to win one based on functionality and capability rather than just marketing.” The news beat: Sources say that a beta of Vista SP1 is due this week, though Microsoft remains quiet about what will be included. Google is building a black box fuzzing application, dubbed Lemon, and built to target dangerous Web applications flaws. Lenovo retakes the number 3 spot for PC vendors thereby knocking rival Acer down a notch. And the hacker who posted a Mac worm disappears from the blogosphere. Green IT: Calling it “something of a chameleon that appeals to different users on different levels,” Computerworld’s Bruce Hoard wonders is Green IT a marketing ploy or new technology? In the one corner are those who say that vendors are merely ‘greenwashing’ the market; in the other, folks insist it’s a sincere effort and use terms such as ‘higher calling’ and ‘corporate morality.’ As hard as it is to make definitive statements, one truth is that the bottom line rules. Software Development