Networking giant Cisco says it will begin issuing firmware security updates twice yearly to patch IOS, starting this month. Microsoft’s IE8 balks at Windows Update, meaning that it blocks access to the service, a fact that has confused users of the test-version browser. Hewlett-Packard shows off future printing technologies, including Latex Ink and the InkJet Web Press, a printer that spits out thousands of pages per minute. At least in the U.K., IT spending is likely to rise and a considerable portion of that will be allocated to Windows Vista and new hardware, according to a survey by the National Computing Centre. And in Keeping up with Verizon’s sneakwrap changes, Gripe Line author Ed Foster opens with some comedy. “The fact that online service providers expect you to check in periodically to see if they’ve made any changes to their Terms of Service (ToS) is already an old, bad joke. But if you’re in the mood for a really bad joke, take a look at what’s involved in really tracking those changes even if you wanted to try.” Security