Researchers look to cloud computing to fight malware. Security experts at the University of Michigan contend that antivirus programs don’t detect nearly enough malware, updates lag behind threats, and that their effectiveness is slowly diminishing. As such, a network service may become the next useful weapon for battling malware. The Open Invention Network is poised to unveil a Web site that will help make details of an invention public to prevent others from later making patent claims on it. Linux patent pool to push for ‘defensive publication.’IBM’s vice president of open source and standards, Bob Sutor, says that open source is not making inroads into industry-specific enterprise applications, there are too many licenses for customers to tolerate, and the day may never come when all software is open source. Related: LinuxWorld: Tux redux. The Olympic games get underway in Beijing, meanwhile, as China Mobile’s WLAN service is turned off and reporters stage an online protest. Although it’s billed as a “High-tech Olympics,” few new technologies are getting playing time over the 16 days. And consolidating your datacenters is a challenge, no doubt about that. Companies, HP being the example du jour, wind up with way too many datacenters, then have to scale back into the single digits. HP went from 85 to 6. All of which raises the question: How do companies end up with so many datacenters in the first place? Technology Industry