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TELECOMMUNICATIONS equipment specialist Ericsson has quietly begun moving to roll-out Microsoft’s Windows Vista.

Lumension Security’s latest version of its Sanctuary product aims to help companies to stem the flow of data loss from vulnerable removable storage devices.

Not-for-profit consortium Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has announced a new initiative to provide SOA for the telecoms industry.

Fabless semiconductor company RMI has released a network accelerator card that offers packet inspection, processing, autonomous security, and a compression engine.

Credit scoring and analytics vendor Fair Isaac has reported a 37% decline in net profit to $13.48m for the second quarter 2008, on revenue up 1% at $193.2m. The decline in income was attributed to higher expenses.

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a five-year $12.2bn IT support contract to 12 companies as part of its Encore II contract for global network-centric services for command and control, intelligence, and mission support.

UK water company Scottish Water has awarded contracts to Fujitsu and BT as part of a technology transformation project it has been implementing for the last six years.

Data warehouse vendor Netezza has introduced a data compression engine that it said can double the speed of data warehouse appliances and reduce data footprint by up to four times.

French IT services provider Sopra has reported a 12% increase in revenue to 268.7m euros ($420.25m) for the first quarter 2008.

IT services provider Affiliated Computer Services has agreed to acquire healthcare services provider CompIQ for $22m. The combined business will be called ACS CompIQ and will be managed by CompIQ’s existing executive team.