Columnists’ corner: Amazon’s ongoing adventure in metered Web services continues with the announcement that SQS (Simple Queue Service) is joining S3 (Simple Storage Service), in the realm of commercial offerings. “Like S3, SQS is an extremely general-purpose service offering that will undoubtedly be used in ways nobody can predict,” postulates Jon Udell in Amazon’s pragmatic approach to metered infrastructure. “When you plant a new field of grass there’s an old adage: Watch where the footpaths go before you lay down the sidewalks. Amazon’s S3/SQS duo is a green field that invites entrepreneurs to think way outside the box.” Security: Oracle patches 65 security holes thereby addressing flaws in its app server, database and e-business suite. And the prototype memory chip that HP touted earlier this week, Memory Spot, now presents a security risk — in that the chip’s rice-grain size and wireless ability could be used by thieves to copy or steal valuable information. Such risk, however, is manageable, one expert says. The news beat: AOL aims (pun indeed intended) for business users with the Pro version of IM software that integrates with Outlook. Microsoft is evaluating whether to put Blinq, a new tool for creating ASP .Net 2.0-based Web sites, into its next rev of Visual Studio. And China’s Internet population hits 123 million people. Software Development