Columnists’ Corner: “When politics trumps technology, expect the worse,” writes our IT Off the Record author, in An IT project without a future. The consequences in this case involved the outsourcing of entire departments. Security: Another worm is circulating. This time, two Trojan horses are spreading through MSN Messenger and capturing passwords to Spanish banks. Telecom: NEC is looking to partner or merge with another company around its cell phone business, just not a foreign group. Technology Industry