App dev: IBM plays out its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software with new Rational products slated for the first half of this year that it is tuning for Web 2.0 and AJAX interfaces. Best of the blogs: Speaking of IBM, the news that Irving Wladawsky-Berger is leaving Big Blue after 37 years prompts Greg Nawrocki (and a whole host of others, I’m certain) to ask What’s next for the friend of grid? Nawrocki explains that neither grid in general nor the Globus Tookit “would be where they are today without his hand shepherding the technology.” Video: At Linux.Conf.AU 07 in Sydney, IDG Australia looks at a $100 notebook PC from MIT’s One Laptop Per Child program, which was the real showstopper of the event. Watch it here. The news beat: Webroot says Microsoft’s Vista Defender antispyware fails to catch 84 percent of a malware sample — a claim Microsoft refutes. With all the information breaches occurring these days tech firms are swarming to protect data and a cadre of products is due out in the coming months. And Palm, after years of effort, will make push e-mail available next week in the form of Treo 680 and 700p Smartphones. Technology Industry