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Business Objects claims Informatica misleading media

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Investment firms buy Avaya for US$8.2bn

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Wednesday, 6th June 2007

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	Business Objects claims Informatica misleading media
	Acer beats Lenovo for world's no. 3 computer maker
	Access Providers carries out Clever re-branding
	HTC touch phone beats iPhone with touch-screen
	Investment firms buy Avaya for US$8.2bn
	Apple refreshes MacBook Pro
	Streamlining your documents with Open Office XML
	Despite data losses, 40% don't monitor databases
	NEC says no plan to cut stake in NEC Electronics
	Public in the dark about 95% of software bugs, IBM says
	New Pac Man for Xbox is swan song for founder
	Japanese robot likes sushi, fears president

Good afternoon,

Business Objects’ Australian subsidiary has bitten back at various statements made by rival data transformation technology company, Informatica, claiming that users will not be able to update their software after a lawsuit ruled that Business Objects must cease shipping a product that infringed on Informatica’s patents.

In the US, after two months of talks with Nortel, private telco equipment provider, Avaya, has instead been bought by a number of US-based investment firms for US$8.2 billion (A$9.7 billion).

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