| Editor's note: We will no longer be publishing the IT Market Watch Alert, the last installment will be mailed the week of March 30. Starting April 6 look for our new alert titled: IT Best Practices in your mailbox. We hope you will enjoy this new alert and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters. If you wish to update your newsletter subscriptions, please click here. EMC looks to build strength through acquisitions EMC is on the lookout for acquisitions but only wants to buy companies that will help solidify its existing business rather than acquiring companies that push EMC into new markets, the storage vendor's top executive said. AT&T earmarks $11 billion for wireless, wireline broadband in '09 AT &T plans to spend more than $11 billion to expand and improve its wireless and wireline broadband networks in 2009. Could Cisco and BMC become more than partners? As Cisco makes an aggressive play for data center market share with its California blade server, industry watchers speculate whether the vendor might also consider acquiring one of the big four management software makers to strike a potentially bigger blow to competitors HP and IBM. Nortel enterprise biz not on Cisco's plate Nortel is in talks with rivals about selling off its enterprise and wireless businesses but sources say one rival that is not interested in the enterprise business is Cisco. Sale of key Nortel assets may be inevitable Nortel may have no choice but to sell off key parts of its business, industry analysts said after reports that the company is in talks with competitors to do just that. IBM CEO Palmisano gets paid nearly $21 million in '08 IBM chief's compensation includes a $5.5 million cash bonus plus stock options and awards worth an estimated $12.22 million at the time they were granted. H-1B's latest controversy With more regulatory hoops to jump through, U.S. companies may reconsider bringing H1-B workers on board.
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Microsoft layoffs add more fuel to the H1-B fire Microsoft cuts software leasing costs to retain companies In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft is wooing them by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26%. Plus, from the blogosphere: Microsoft Era of 'Take It Or Leave It' Is Over Nortel to cancel room reservations at Las Vegas CTIA Wireless show Nortel is asking bankruptcy court to help it back out of rooms it booked for a trade show in Las Vegas just weeks before filing for bankruptcy that including a suite with... Dell cuts staff worldwide Dell on Wednesday said it had laid off staff at different sites worldwide in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations. Cisco's "limited restructuring"Word that Cisco is quietly downsizing one of its technology groups and outsourcing engineering positions and there could be more of these LRs to come. Why CxOs, VP’S and director ’s should always return e-mails and calls In this economy, everyone is learning a scared truth – everything you do in the business world eventually comes full circle. So ponders Cisco Subnet blogger Larry Chaffin. Remaking the DJIA Should Cisco be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average … some say yes. Cisco and Pure Digital? Can't go for that (no can do) An interesting connection between flip video device maker Pure Digital, the surprising rumored buyout target of Cisco is that its VCs were the original backers of Cisco, says Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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