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  • Alcatel, Lucent agree US$33 billion merger

    French telecoms technology provider Alcatel and US equipment firm Lucent Technologies on Sunday announced a merger agreement, creating a US$33 billion dollar giant in global telecommunications.

  • Death of the free Web: The merger myth

    The unprecedented speed, number and price of Internet combinations formed to boost traffic has redefined the corporate merger, which critics now say contributed mightily to the decline of the overall industry.

  • Web services patents fetch US$15.5 million

    A mysterious bidder paid US$15.5 million Monday in the US in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents--and then rushed out of the courtroom.

  • Apple in court dispute over Unix

    As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself.

  • Sun pushes price cuts to stay competitive

    Sun Microsystems Australia has kicked off its first quarterly product release with 40 percent price reductions and the first example of its much-hyped N1 strategy, in an attempt to stay competitive in a depressed spending market.

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  • Apple in court dispute over Unix

    As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.

  • You can't hide in a digital office

    The average paper shredder does nothing to alter the computers where the vast majority of those paper documents originated.

  • Could Sun hold a key to SCO's future?

    As SCO forges ahead with a take no prisoners approach, its most fervent opponents are salivating at the prospect that a sealed 1992 settlement between the University of California, Berkeley, and Novell could disprove SCO claims to the Unix code. Imagine if Sun were holding a similar document in its files?

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