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Novell acquires e-Security

Novell said on Wednesday that it will acquire e-Security for US$72 million. Read more »

Microsoft buys VPN specialist

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Whale Communications, a specialist in secure remote access and Web application firewalls. Read more »

IBM buys XML appliance maker

IBM has acquired privately held DataPower, one of the first companies to develop specialised hardware for speeding up and securing XML network traffic. Read more »

Borland buys into project management

Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland's line of software development tools. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be announced Monday, were not disclosed. Read more »

Adobe snaps up document security tools

Adobe Systems is adding new document protection mechanisms to its business workflow software with an acquisition announced on Monday. Read more »

Microsoft-Yahoo combo could mean one fewer exit for upstarts

In the world of Internet investing, there are generally two get-rich exit strategies: acquisition or initial public offering. Read more »

Oblix to help Oracle, PeopleSoft tools 'coexist'

Oracle's aggressive acquisition strategy drove the purchase of privately held Oblix and will get Oracle closer to its vision of a unified application product line, the database giant said this week. Read more »

IBM grabs content management company

IBM plans to acquire content management software maker Venetica, the 18th acquisition Big Blue's software group has made since 2001. Read more »

IBM buys local data centre player

IBM has furthered its push for the small-to-medium business market in Australia with the acquisition of disaster recovery company Classic Blue. Read more »

IBM to pay US$1.6 billion for FileNet

IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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