| IBM boosts data protection with acquisition, 12/06/07 IBM has boosted its data protection portfolio by acquiring services vendor Arsenal Digital Solutions. Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007; what it should buy in 2008 Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly $256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired. U.S. Secret Service busts $5.7 million Cisco scam on eBay California's Orange County Register is reporting that the U.S. Secret Service has busted a $5.7 million scam on eBay selling illegally obtained Cisco replacement parts. Nortel advances Microsoft alliance, 12/06/07 Nortel this week unveiled the newest component of its alliance with Microsoft for unified communications – a desktop audio-and-video system for collaboration. Oracle buys Dutch apps performance manager Moniforce, 12/06/07 Oracle has bought Moniforce, a Dutch vendor of Web application performance management software, for an undisclosed sum. Delay, repairs, even success hit Palm's profit, 12/07/07 Struggling smartphone maker Palm can't win for losing. IBM files trade complaint against Asustek, 12/06/07 IBM has filed a trade complaint in the U.S. against Taiwanese hardware vendor Asustek Computer, alleging that the company has infringed IBM ... Seagate buys e-discovery company, 12/06/07 Storage vendor Seagate Technology said Thursday it plans to buy MetaLINCS, an e-discovery software firm. The vendor's move follows Iron Mountain's ... Cisco hires former CTO at struggling Motorola as its CTO, 12/05/07 Padmasree Warrior, who resigned as Motorola's chief technology officer on Monday, will take on the same job at Cisco, the networking vendor announced Tuesday. Novell postpones today's earnings report, 12/05/07 While presenting the move as merely "an abundance of caution," Novell announced this morning that it is postponing its fourth-quarter earnings release and conference call that had been scheduled for today. Carriers brace for federal buying spree, 12/04/07 Carriers are preparing for a flood of buying activity under the federal government’s massive Networx telecommunications program in 2008. Sprint may spin off WiMAX division, 12/04/07 Interim Sprint CEO Paul Saleh told an investor conference this week that his company was looking at multiple options for dealing with its WiMAX division, including spinning it off to another entity. Grisoft acquires Exploit Prevention Labs, 12/05/07 Antivirus software vendor Grisoft Wednesday announced it has acquired start-up Exploit Prevention Labs for an undisclosed price. Orange sells 30,000 iPhones in five days, 12/05/07 French mobile phone operator Orange sold 30,000 iPhones in the five days following its Nov. 29 launch, the company said Wednesday. News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment buys Beliefnet, 12/05/07 News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group Tuesday acquired online religion and spirituality site Beliefnet, in a deal one report said is worth millions. | 
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