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The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) on Tuesday awarded Cable and Wireless PLC (C&W) a retendered contract to manage its e-mail and directory system.

Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire London-based traffic engineering and routing software provider Parc Technologies Ltd. in an effort to gain better traffic management in its systems and products, the company said Thursday.

Two and a half years after launching its Trustworthy Computing initiative Microsoft Corp. is finding its products the target of escalating attacks, to the extent that some security experts are even warning that the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser is simply not safe to use.

Microsoft Corp. kicked off its Tech Ed Europe conference in Amsterdam Tuesday to the thundering cacophony of thousands of developers and other IT professionals beating on small African drums. The fact that the drums were provided by Microsoft could be seen as a move by the company to get customers dancing to its beat, but for many attendees it represented a change in Microsoft's tune

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) is continuing the proliferation of its BlackBerry wireless platform, announcing a new partnership with Novell Inc. Wednesday as well as an expansion of its relationship with Vodafone Group PLC.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has created a new unit to target government business and appointed one of its top executives to lead the group, it said Tuesday.

Lindows Inc. claimed a victory in its latest trademark tussle with Microsoft Corp. this week after a Dutch court denied a request by Microsoft that the Linux-based software vendor be barred from using the Lindows name in connection with sales of its products in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Having faced high-profile antitrust cases in both the U.S. and European Union (E.U.), Microsoft Corp. may not immediately spring to mind as governments' favored friend. So it is perhaps not surprising that the software giant has waged a quiet campaign in recent months to change its image from that of monopolist to "good corporate citizen."