Columnist’s corner: An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for best documentary last night and while on stage Al Gore pointed out that much of the show itself was conducted in an environmentally-friendly fashion. IT, too, is getting in on the eco-action, as Steve Fox points out in The greening of IT. “Today, a gentle trickle of attention; tomorrow — blam! — it’s on everyone’s lips,” Fox writes. Best of the blogs: Ted Samson picks that theme up in his new blog, Sustainable IT, with a post about how IT heavyweights are plotting the green grid. The threat they are up against: half the world’s data centers will run out of power by the end of 2008, according to Gartner research.The news beat: Skype asks the FCC to open mobile networks — a request that harks back to the landmark 1968 Carterphone decision. Apple, Samsung and Sandisk all get sued in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Texas MP3 Technologies. And Toshiba unveils the first HD DVD-R laptop, but only in Japan for the time being. Technology Industry