Accenture/Avanade, Bulletproof, winners at Microsoft’s global Partner of the Year Awards

NEC Electronics will be the name of the combined company

PC maker also agrees to change its advertising, sales and financing practices

The deal will inject Web analytics technology into Adobe’s content creation tools

New City of Toronto Green Roof Bylaw will create further partner opportunities in the geographic information systems spacernrn

Plus, Intel in the PC processor market and Cisco in the SMB space

HP’s embedded mobile Internet-ready netbook makes connecting to the Internet even easier

New EX490 and EX495 work with remote desktop for Mac, Apple’s Time Machine

Lenovo’s ThinkPad T400s will allow for touch input via four fingers

Maloney and Perlmutter appear to be leading candidates to succeed Otellini

Learn more about Avaya’s out clause in its US$915 million deal to buy Nortel’s enterprise business

Plus, NEC, Casio and Hitachi and CA and NetQoS

EMC said it has hired Pat Gelsinger, who has been at Intel for 30 years

Toronto-based i4i argues an injunction blocking Microsoft from selling current versions of Word should stand

Asustek shows off four new UL-series laptops