Nortel picks LTE over WiMax. Instead of trying to do both, the vendor says it opted to spend R&D dollars on Long Term Evolution because it has accelerated more than WiMax. To help with its own phishing and spam investigations, Microsoft hires anti-phishing crusader Paul Laudanski, the man behind Castlecops.com.A hacker posts Safari ‘carpet bomb’ code that exploits critical flaws in Safari and IE to a security blog. Shavlik’s CTO says, “if you’ve got Safari, you’re in trouble.” OpenOffice.org, with the new version 2.4.1, patches a heap overflow memory problem that could let a hacker execute arbitrary commands on a victim’s computer. Oracle shows off Sales Prospector, which it calls a ‘social CRM’ module, and foreshadows two more modules that also are focused on social networking, rather than strictly mainline CRM.And Robert X. Cringely dispels any notion that Americans are swimming in broadband choices, and a bevy of readers dive in with tales of being strong-armed, saddled with satellite, and selective bandwidth throttling. Bottle me up, throttle me down. Technology Industry