Careers: You can’t be too careful when giving out personal information, even to higher-ups on the corporate food chain, be they headhunters, VCs or other personal jockeys. That’s the lesson Nick Corcodilos shares in this post. “You might expect that a call from a venture capitalist is a pretty exciting thing, eh?” One reader thought so — just not for long. “I felt like I had been digitally scammed,” after the VC did not keep business talks confidential, the reader explains. Notes from the field: Hewlett-Packard executives are not in the clear yet from the pretexting scandal. In the latest occurrence CNET reporters are suing the company for hiring private investigators to illegally obtain phone records and follow the reporters around, even on vacation. “I say more power to them,” Robert X. Cringely cheers in No HP spies on us. “The more HP has to pay, the better (though I’d settle for some old fashioned tarring and feathering).”Columnist’s corner: Tom Yager presents a compelling case for rediscovering a textual user interface that, he predicts, is going to be bigger than SOA. “Think I’m just putting you on?” he asks. “Nobody is a more emphatic advocate for the immersive, GUI user experience than yours truly. But the power of text will never fade — and only the TUI is truly ubiquitous.” The ultimate user interface. The news beat: Microsoft fixes DNS server and Exchange flaws with seven groups of patches. Sun aligns with Ericsson to work on Java-based applications that run across wireless networks. And Cisco posts strong revenue and profit growth for its third quarter. Careers