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Over the past few months there has been a flurry of activity in the security space. Since the summer many of the major players in the enterprise content management arena appear to be buying all around them.
 

This week the mobile enterprise aims to make security a hardware issue, attempts to unify mobile and desktop devices and Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7.

While the decision by Intel to buy McAfee (news, site)  may have raised some eyebrows, the agreement to pay US$ 7.68 billion for it  is causing absolute consternation, especially on Wall Street where such deals are pulled apart like fresh donuts.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• More Are Viewing TV and Surfing The Web Simultaneously
• Microsoft Developing Twitter Like Service Dubbed OfficeTalk
• Twitter Cracking Down on Spammers
• Google Showing Hotel Prices in Google Maps

The race for enterprise 2.0 stardom is on. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe,  Amazon and Skype have all been in recent news regarding the topic.

Sadly,  SuiteTwo, an Intel-backed enterprise 2.0 suite, is dropping out when competition is tough and the economy is even tougher.

The global economy may be imploding, but the flow of investment capital into the social media space shows no sign of recession. Intel Capital continues the trend by taking a US$ 20 million stake in Telligent Systems.

With word that it’s getting dubbed “the new Google” by Stateside investors, VMware’s share cost on the NYSE have leaped from a forecast of US$ 23 to about US$ 27, per yesterday’s numbers.

There’s nothing like buying your way into an industry to get a foot through the door.

Intel Capital just made a US$ 218.5 million buy-in on virtualization company VMware, pocketing 9.5 million Class A shares (that’s US$ 23 per share) in the process.

With the introduction of the Sun Blade 6000 Family of server hardware, Sun Microsystems is hoping to make it easier for IT administrators to provide the kind of flexibility that software developers need to build truly innovative and revolutionary products.