Bye bye Wi-Fi hotspots. Maybe. With mobile broadband use expanding, Wi-Fi hotspots will become as irrelevant as telephone booths, an Ericsson executive says. Plenty of happenings on the chip front today. IBM and Hitachi join forces to collaborate on research and develop 32- and 22-nanometer semiconductors. More than two dozen low-cost notebooks based on Intel’s Atom are in the works and will ship with either Windows Vista or Linux. Analyst house Gartner warns of a coming chip glut that could indicate orders are falling or being cancelled. Sony talks with Apple and Microsoft about Blu-Ray, according to a report, which suggests that the discussions focused on convincing them to offer Blu-ray Disc drives for their systems. And Robert X. Cringely weighs in on a spear phishing attack against the government and the Pentagon asking Google to remove images of military installations from Street View, in Pentagon Hacks and Google Maps. Technology Industry