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IT Careers and Training Alert
Jul. 06, 2008
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Apple, Steve Jobs face securities fraud lawsuit
Jul. 02, 2008
Apple's legal woes over the backdating of stock options is not over yet. A new class action lawsuit has been brought against the company, two former executives and several members of the Board of Directors, according to ...

Belated look at BMC's acquisition of ITM Software
Jul. 02, 2008
BMC Software a couple of weeks ago announced it had acquired for an undisclosed sum ITM Software, a maker of products that help manage the business side of IT that fall into the technology arena of project and portfolio ...

Technology Executive Alert
Jul. 06, 2008
Technology executives' source for news and resources from Network World.

Google sued over Apps e-mail migration tool
Jun. 26, 2008
A small Chicago-based software company is accusing Google of ripping off a tool it developed that allows Microsoft Outlook e-mail users to shift over to Gmail.

Two Indian mobile operators to merge
Jun. 25, 2008
Spice Communications, a regional Indian mobile services provider, is to merge with a large Indian operator Idea Cellular, continuing an ongoing consolidation in the Indian mobile services market.

Tibco boosts BI with Insightful buy
Jun. 24, 2008
Tibco Software is to boost its business optimization portfolio after announcing last week that it would purchase data mining specialist Insightful in a deal worth nearly $25 million.

Apple Store to open in San Antonio this Saturday
Jun. 24, 2008
Apple's newest retail store opens at the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas this Saturday, June 28, 2008. The store will open to the public at 10:00 AM.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source
Jun. 24, 2008
Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 per cent and will pay €264 million ($410 million) for ...

Is tech M&A frenzy good for business?
Jun. 23, 2008
Another day, another Oracle acquisition. Oracle seems to buy up companies based on if there is a 'Y' in the day although informed sources that it always checks the weather first. If there is weather on the day, it goes ...

Startup sued over speech-recognition patent infringement
Jun. 21, 2008
Nuance Communications has filed a federal lawsuit against Vlingo, charging the startup with infringing on a Nuance patent for speech recognition software being supplied for the Yahoo! oneSearch mobile search service.

Report: Yahoo plans to reorganize
Jun. 20, 2008
Yahoo is planning to reorganize its business in order to centralize its numerous product groups, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

LinkedIn valued at $1 billion
Jun. 18, 2008
LinkedIn, the social-networking site for career advancement and professional interactions, closed a funding round that values it at US$1 billion, something the company considers a validation to its particular approach ...

Microsoft scoops up TV ad-placement company
Jun. 18, 2008
Microsoft is moving into the TV advertising realm with the acquisition of Navic Networks, which specializes in delivering targeted, interactive ads to users of digital cable set-top boxes.

HP chief Hurd fields questions about EDS buy
Jun. 18, 2008
HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd made a brief cameo during HP Technology Forum & Expo keynote address to re-assure some 7,000 attendees on the quality of the deal. And he later talked in more detail at Software Universe ...

Alcatel-Lucent buys service mgmt. partner for $68 million
Jun. 18, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent (see how green the company's switches are) this week said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Motive, a provider of service management software for broadband and mobile data services, ...

Potential fallout of wireless acquisitions
Jun. 18, 2008
Verizon buys Alltel; Belden buys Trapeze. The consolidation game in the wireless industry - WAN and LAN alike - is officially afoot.

Yahoo - Just sell and be done
Jun. 11, 2008
I've never had the pleasure but ubiquitous "rebel investor" Carl Icahn would appear to be a man difficult to love. Rarely guilty of the sin of being backward in coming forward, Icahn has been in characteristically ...

Symantec buys online backup vendor SwapDrive
Jun. 11, 2008
Symantec this month acquired online file backup and recovery vendor SwapDrive.

Perimeter buys Edgeos to boost security offerings
Jun. 11, 2008
Perimeter eSecurity, a managed service provider, said on Tuesday it has acquired security vendor Edgeos for an undisclosed amount to boost the capabilities in its products.

Blue Coat CEO talks about sealing the Packeteer deal
Jun. 10, 2008
Blue Coat Systems Monday announced the completion of its acquisition of Packeteer. The deal came together quickly: Blue Coat announced its intent to acquire Packeteer on April 21, and commenced its tender offer for the ...

Microsoft hits 21 U.S. resellers with piracy lawsuits
Jun. 10, 2008
Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in 14 U.S. states against resellers in which it alleges they engaged in the sale of pirated software, it said Tuesday.

HP, Acer settle patent dispute
Jun. 09, 2008
PC vendors HP and Acer on Monday announced the settlement of all patent disputes between them, putting to rest three federal court cases and two investigations by the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Belden to buy wireless LAN vendor Trapeze
Jun. 06, 2008
Belden has announced it will buy WLAN vendor Trapeze Networks for $133 million in cash.

Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion
Jun. 06, 2008
Carl Icahn and Yahoo's board traded barbs once again on Friday as the billionaire investor increased his pressure on Yahoo to make a deal with Microsoft, demanding that the company put itself up for sale to Microsoft ...