Sean Gallagher

UPDATED: In a deal that completes its reversal on WiMax and places it squarely in the wireless metropolitan network market, Cisco announced plans to purchase Navini Networks, a manufacturer of mobile WiMAX wireless networking equipment. Under the terms of yesterday’s agreement, Cisco will pay $330 million in cash and assumed stock options for the company. […]

BEA Systems appears determined to stave off Oracle’s $6.7 billion acquisition offer. In addition to refusing Oracle’s reiterated bid today, BEA also shrugged off Oracle’s threat to abandon the deal. BEA’s response represents the latest salvo in an ongoing communications battle between the two companies over Oracle’s unsolicited buyout offer, and comes after Oracle yesterday […]

IBM moved to strengthen its position in the storage market today, with a range of products covering disk and tape storage, storage management and storage virtualization. One focus of the products is to make the expansion of installed storage easier. Another is to help both enterprises and small and medium businesses counter the ever-shrinking window […]

Apple is making an abrupt about-face on its policy regarding iPhone applications, announcing yesterday that it will release a software developer’s kit for the device early next year. The SDK, which will also support the iPod Touch, will allow third-party software developers to develop and deploy their own applications for the devices. “Let me just […]

MySpace and Internet soft-phone provider Skype announced a partnership Tuesday that will make Skype’s voice engine part of the social networking site’s instant messaging service. The deal will connect MySpace’s 8 million active MySpaceIM users to Skype’s 220 million registered users through a new messaging client. “We’re announcing a global partnership that brings free, high-quality […]