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• Shareholders approve Alcatel, Lucent merger

  Alcatel and Lucent Technologies shareholders approved Alcatel's $11 billion acquisition of Lucent on Thursday, ticking off another hurdle in the companies' plans to consolidate their businesses.

• 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.

• Broker opts for new AT&T link

  Frustrated by expensive delays in receiving market prices, Australia's largest futures broker has dumped an existing Internet link to its partners in Chicago and opted for a new data link from ATT.

• Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close wallets

  Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for the Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business.

• Yahoo to offer CNN, ABC video feeds

  Yahoo has signed deals with CNN.com and ABC News to expand the content it offers, the company said on Monday.

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• Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close wallets

  Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business.

• VoIP wants to cut the computer cord

  Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.

• Technology's growing acquisition appetite

  Supersize me. If technology companies ranging from software powerhouse Oracle to fast-growing Net hotshot Skype could share a motto, it would be that oft-ridiculed fast-food pitch.

• Cisco: Still hot or not?

  CTO Charles Giancarlo wants to prove wrong the critics who say Cisco has lost the drive that turned it into a 1990s superstar.

• Phone fallout: Talk is cheap

  In the United States, the shift to low-cost Internet calling has cost the old-line phone giants dearly. Someday, this could happen in Australia.

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• New IE may burst pop-up bubble

  Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.

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