ABC returned its long-awaited sophomore slate of Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money, but the results were alarmingly lackluster.В

Sony Ericsson has now announced the launch of 'PlayNow Plus', a bundled offering to compete with Nokia's 'Comes With Music'.

Apple Inc. will no longer force iPhone software developers to sign a nondisclosure agreement that many had said was hampering their ability to work.

Perot Systems, a provider of IT services and business solutions, has appointed Harry Greenspun as its new executive vice president and chief medical officer for its healthcare industry group.

Ilog, a provider of business software and services, has announced that Swiss Medical Group, a provider of medical services, has selected Ilog JRules to automate its medical claims processing.

CSC, a provider of IT and professional services, has introduced a Java Platform Enterprise Edition compatible solution for policy administration that provides platform and database flexibility.

Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems, has announced that Comcast, a US-based cable operator, has licensed its new business and operational support products.

Broadcom, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has upgraded its location based services infrastructure to add Wi-Fi positioning to its LBS portfolio of services.

HP has appointed Lynn Pendergrass as its senior vice president for the Americas region of its imaging and printing group, which includes the US, Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Logica, a IT business and services company, has appointed Laurent Allard as its new chief information officer.

ZNokia has acquired Canada-based mobile messaging company OZ Communications for an undisclosed sum. On completion of the deal, OZ will become part of Nokia's Services & Software unit.

Science Applications International Corp has won two five-year contracts worth a total of $160m from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command to provide modeling and simulation support to the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center Systems

Northrop Grumman's Electronics Systems, Space, and ISR System division has won a $72.5m contract from the US Air Force to provide a Space Awareness and Global Exploitation, Sage, system; a Static Infrared Emitter processor; Sage client displays; and affiliated hardware,

Web 2.0 software company Clearspring Technologies has acquired bookmarking and content-sharing service provider AddThis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Defense contractor Alion Science and Technology has won a five-year $37.93m contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center, NAWC, Training Systems Division to provide PC-based, integrated anti-submarine warfare, ASW, training systems.

AT&T is bringing its wireless and wireline businesses together under four major divisions: consumer, business, infrastructure, and diversified business.

AT&T has opened a call center in Goldsboro, North Carolina to provide technical support for broadband customers in the southeastern US.

Storage company Western Digital has entered the small-office market with a new high-speed centralized network storage system.

General Dynamics' Information Technology unit has won a five-year $46.3m contract from the US Navy to provide education and training products and support services to the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center, NETPDTC.

India-based software services firm Polaris Software has agreed to acquire US-based insurance technology company SEEC for an undisclosed sum.