Hewlett-Packard and EDS, the Plano, TX-based service giant, announced today that HP will purchase the company for "an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion." The deal has already been approved of by both companies' boards and should be finalized some time in the second half of this year. For EDS, the acquisition is primarily about improving its languishing stock price. For HP, the deal is about increasing its services business, in particular, adding more types of services and increasing its scale in order to take on the king of IT services, IBM.

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RIM, the company behind the Blackberry smart phone, and Microsoft announced an increase in integration between RIM's mobile devices and the Windows Live service. This news sets the stage for the big summer PR battle between the Blackberry and Apple's iPhone. With the iPhone adding Exchange synchronization and enterprise-friendly features by the end of June, Blackberry, Windows Mobile-powered, and other smart phones will find the enterprise phone market under assault by Apple proponents.

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