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• RIM boosts calendar capabilities with Tungle buy

  Research in Motion moved to boost its mobile devices' calendar capabilities by buying Tungle, an enterprise scheduling application developer, for an undisclosed sum.

• Attachmate seals $2.2B Novell deal

  The Attachmate Group announced Wednesday that it has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a networking pioneer in the 1980s that’s now being described as “a leader in intelligent workload management” by its new owner.

• Alcatel-Lucent looking to sell enterprise business: Report

  Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly shopping around its enterprise switching, IP telephony and contact center businesses in an effort to boost its financial performance by focusing on core telecom markets.

• EMC/RSA acquires electronic threat detection firm NetWitness

  EMC Corp. today announced it has acquired NetWitness Corp, a security company that makes the NextGen visibility monitoring system to detect electronic threats and malware-based attacks. EMC said NetWitness will operate as part of RSA.

• AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned

  The proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger has many different groups standing athwart recent telecom history and yelling, "Stop!"

• AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions

  AT&T’s surprise buyout of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has industry watchers scrambling to figure out what the deal means for subscribers, the U.S. cellular industry and investors.

• Cisco bolsters video, buys digital media company Inlet

  Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of adaptive bit rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms, for $95 million in cash and retention-based incentives.

• Time Warner Cable snaps up NaviSite for $230M as cloud computing consolidates

  Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has announced plans to buy NaviSite (NASDAQ: NAVI) in a $230 million deal through which Time Warner will inherit more than a thousand business customers who use managed services.

• HP exec hints at larger role for webOS

  A recent CNBC interview with an HP executive is focusing attention on the company's expected webOS device news, including a possible tablet, on Feb. 9 in San Francisco.

• Juniper acquires virtualization security firm

  Juniper Networks Monday announced it has acquired Altor Networks, a provider of virtualization security for data centers, for $95 million.

• Novell through the years

  1979: Novell Data Systems is founded in Provo, Utah, as a maker of computers and disk operating systems.

• Juniper ends busy week by acquiring video storage assets

  It's been a busy week for Juniper Networks.

• Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze for $152 million

  Juniper Networks, as expected, has agreed to acquire and Belden's Trapeze Networks wireless LAN unit for $152 million in cash.

• AVG to acquire Android security firm

  AVG Technologies Tuesday announced plans to buy out Israel-based start-up DroidSecurity for an undisclosed price by year-end.

• A billion reasons to read about Intel, Apple, Facebook and other tech companies

  Intel’s investing up to $8 billion for new chip manufacturing, Facebook says the prosecution of a billion dollar spammer isn’t over and Twitter’s aiming for a billion users. The ITU says 2 billion of us will be online by the end of this year, one market watcher said the 5 billionth device plugged into the Internet in August and Apple has become the second most valuable U.S. company based on a market capitalization of around $290 billion and a stellar fiscal fourth quarter in which it posted $4.3 billion in earnings and $20.3 billion in revenue.