Security: Spending a week in Silicon Valley visiting with companies there has Matt Hines explaining that “things are currently thriving in the SV region — and the security segment certainly seems to be no exception.” While that is a good sign for the industry, Hines also found that, “threats continue to get scarier and stealthier. We’ve been writing about this trend for years, but after you spend a few days briefing with the experts about issues like botnets and polymorphic, targeted malware attacks, you can’t help but feel a little more paranoid and amazed at the innovation of the bad guys.” IT security fear and grow-thing in Silicon Valley. “The biggest takeaway from the entire week is that the security sector is amazingly vibrant, fast-moving and full of some of the most unabashedly brilliant individuals you could ever care to interview.” From the InfoWorld Test Center: Calling it “boring as hell,” Randall Kennedy explains that, “Microsoft Office Live Workspaces has to be one of the most anti-climactic releases of the past decade.” Why? Well, “not only does OLW do nothing really new, it doesn’t even do what it does as well as other, competing solutions.” Take Live Documents, for instance. This freebie from InstaColl makes OLW appear decidedly pedestrian, Kennedy adds. “Perhaps I’ve been spoiled. There are so many great Web services solutions out there — most of them free like OLW — that my expectations keep getting nudged higher and higher.” Read the full review. The news beat: Borland says it will blend business intelligence and application lifecycle management with new products that focus on business management and collect data gathered by tools from open source projects and different vendors. RIM, Yahoo and JetBlue band together to offer in-flight Wi-Fi and instant messaging such that customers will be able to use laptops and Wi-Fi phones to access customized e-mail and IM. And CompUSA said it will start winding down its retail operations as the investment firm that acquired it is looking to sell its assets. Security