All the week’s IT market news.
Qwest CEO to retire, 06/11/07: Qwest announced today that Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert plans to retire upon the selection of a successor.
IBM to acquire Telelogic, 06/11/07: IBM Monday announced a cash tender offer of about $745 million to acquire all outstanding shares of Swedish application life-cycle management software maker Telelogic.
Microsoft vs. Google: Which to root for?: With Google crying antitrust, bloggers and readers have squared off on which company to boo or hiss. Read up and take our poll.
Microsoft and Google sniping: What’s it all about?, 06/11/07: Microsoft and Google have been nipping at each other for quite some time but as the search and online advertising market has picked up so has the competition. Now Google has chosen to go the antitrust route, according to a story by the Wall Street Journal.
Burden of proof on Google in Vista antitrust claim, 06/11/07: Google’s claims that Microsoft’s built-in Vista desktop indexing and search tool violates its antitrust agreement could be difficult to prove even if the software does slow down the performance of Google’s competitive Google Desktop offering.
Microsoft taps Linux veteran to lead Novell interop lab, 06/11/07: Microsoft has appointed an executive to lead its controversial efforts to make its software more interoperable with Novell’s SUSE Linux.
Citrix buys Caymas NAC assets, 06/11/07: Citrix is buying the assets of NAC vendor Caymas Systems, which is out of business and whose products have some overlap with the Citrix’s SSL VPN products.
Sophos secures global deal with GE, 06/06/07: One of the world’s most recognized brands, GE has signed an agreement to begin deploying Sophos across the globe.
Qwest network operations VP to retire, 06/05/07: Qwest Communications this week said Barry Allen, executive vice president of operations, will retire from the company June 29.
NAC security vendor Caymas is out of business, 06/08/07: Caymas NAC security company is bought; new owner discontinues products, support
U.S. agency bars some Qualcomm imports, 06/07/07: The U.S. International Trade Commission barred the import of future models of phones using Qualcomm third generation chips, marking a blow to the vendor in its ongoing intellectual property battle with Broadcom.
Ex-Alcatel exec pleads guilty to bribery, 06/07/07: A former Alcatel executive has pleaded guilty to paying more than $2.5 million in bribes to secure a telephone contract with Costa Rica’s state telecommunications agency, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
