Notes from the field: Cringely reports that another Apple special event is coming. “Tomorrow, Apple will unveil … something. Smart money is on a new iPod that looks a lot like the iPhone, runs the Mac OS, and updates via Wi-Fi,” he writes. Either that or a “new, less stratospherically priced iPhone Nano with a smaller form factor but limited Internet chops.” Then again, Jobs might just speak the words “iTunes,” and “Meet the Beatles” in the same sentence. From the feature well: Leon Urlanger asks are unified communications here at last? “Today IP telephony and UC are moving toward a more IT-centric software architecture, laying the groundwork for broader acceptance,” he writes. “Everyone agrees that the increasing penetration of SOA and related integration technologies is setting the stage for increased UC adoption. But UC vendors, including Microsoft and Oracle, recognize this as a long-term process.”Video: This time, a three-minute primer on strategies that promise to ease storage management and meet compliance regulations, while making data retrieval fast. Watch it here. The news beat: Oracle buys Netsure Telecom for its network intelligence and data integrity software. ISO votes against approving Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format in the fast track process. The U.S. DOD says that the e-mail attack against it caused no damage. And a security expert finds ‘stupid’ holes in Oracle 11g through which attackers could steal data. Technology Industry