DEALS: Ma Bell may be back; BlackBerry settled at last

DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

AT&T

BellSouth

AT&T buys BellSouth for $67B

It may make business sense, but a Ma Bell reunion is dangerously close here.

Research In Motion

NTP

$612.5M ends BlackBerry patent suit

No more worries about losing your CrackBerry devices.

Micron Technology

Lexar Media

Micron buys Lexar for $682M

Micron will run Lexar as a subsidiary and gets a steady flow of memory.

Microsoft

Cisco Systems, Citrix

Partnering for IP app suites

Corporate users get seamless IP communications inside future Office apps.

Brocade Communications Systems

NuView

Brocade buys NuView for $60M

Brocade gets file management tools for network-attached storage.

Asterisk

Zimbra

Partnering for next-gen call control

Asterisk VoIP tools will be integrated with Zimbra's calendar/collaboration apps.

VeriSign

Kontiki

VeriSign buys Kontiki for $62M

VeriSign enters the broadband content services market.

Wyse Technology

VMware

Partnering for virtual OS via thin clients

Virtualization through thin clients isn't new, but it's still cool.