Best of the blogs: Airborne, also called mobile, viruses have been around for a while now but they’ve not quite taken flight yet. That could change, though, at least according to a white paper that security vendor McAfee put out highlighting a handful of issues with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Within, McAfee asserts that hackers will soon begin targeting smartphones to the extent that all will likely be assaulted at some point. “While the research paper fails to highlight any real vulnerabilities in Windows Mobile, and there remain experts who doubt that hackers will move aggressively to infiltrate smartphones, it provides interesting food for thought,” Matt Hines reports in McAfee predicts Windows mobile malware. Notes from the field: Those most devout, devoted and dedicated Apple fans, that’s right the ones who stood in line for a mere phone, must be feeling mighty screwed right about today. That’s because yesterday Apple cut the price of the 8GB iPhone by 200 smackeroos, or 33 percent. “Isn’t that special? No word on rebates for those poor suckers who surfed the tsunami of hype into Apple stores on June 29,” Cringe writes. Apple to iPhone fans: Bite me. The rest of yesterday’s announcements were, Cringe’s words here, distincly underwhelming. “Maybe the King of Cupertino has finally run out of magic tricks.” The news beat: Apple had better hope Cringe is wrong about that because it’s been just one day since its release, and already it seems that Apple may face a lawsuit over the iPod Touch moniker, since HTC already has a smartphone called the HTC Touch. Four men plead guilty to e-mail and securities fraud, three of whom live in the U.S. and the other is from France. Nokia and Intel tout a new network security appliance, the first of its kind to come out of their collaboration. And Microsoft teases Office 2008 for Mac features. Quoteworthy: In an industry, telecommunications, where the major players, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, refresh their lines every six months with dozens of new flashy cellular handsets it is nothing short of amazing that Apple, as a newbie in the market can command both the respect of its competitors, who now claim they have an iPhone killer, and customers who were willing to pay quite a premium to be one of the first to own an iPhone. — Ephraim Schwartz, Apple iPhone demonstrates the value of brand. Security