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By Ben King, 1 February 2002 14:40

NEWS Who's been wheeling and a-dealing in the last 30 days? Who's spent their month a-ducking and a-diving? Well, BT for one. There's still a lot of business being done, even in these dark days. Here are ten of the best and biggest. A perfect meeting of minds between the new economy and the old - fusty old-school auctioneer Sotheby's signed up with its upstart rivals, the dot-commest of the dot-coms, eBay. Let's hope those ugly allegations of price-fixing stay in the old economy where they belong. We'd hate to see eBay involved.
SOTHEBY'S JUMPS INTO BED WITH eBAY
http://www.silicon.com/a50942 There's been so much mud flung at Marconi recently that it's nice to see them signing up some customers. This one is a 10,000km fibre optic network in Italy - no value announced, which is worrying, but in Marconi's condition, it's great news nonetheless.
MARCONI SIGNS ITALIAN OPTICAL NETWORK DEAL
http://www.silicon.com/a50931 Nice to see our old friends FlyingSpark doing well - last year they took us on a tour through a hole in the GPRS network, and now they've signed up with mmO2 to help them close it.
FLYINGSPARK SIGNS DEAL WITH mm02
http://www.silicon.com/a50926 It's been a good month for US retail monster Sears, what with rival K-Mart going out of business. Data warehousing played a big role in reversing the decline of what was once the US's biggest retailer, so it's good to hear they have another 95 Terabytes to play with, courtesy of those nice people at EMC.
EMC SIGNS DEAL WITH SEARS
http://www.silicon.com/a50675 Almost a beautifully timed announcement. Just as mobile phone theft becomes the tabloid nation's idée fixe, One2One signs a deal to prevent the theft from mobile phones... of private data on GPRS networks. Just think, you could have been on the front page of the Sun...
ONE2ONE SIGNS @STAKE FOR WIRELESS SECURITY
http://www.silicon.com/a50630 AT&T saw its profits halve this month - so who better to try and help the struggling telecoms behemoth turn it around? Answers on a postcard...
AT&T INKS $2.6bn DEAL WITH ACCENTURE
http://www.silicon.com/a50467 Air travel is a tough business these days, so the details of this Lufthansa-PeopleSoft-Novell deal were kept quiet. Still, Novell says it's its biggest ever.
NOVELL AND PEOPLESOFT SEAL LUFTHANSA CONTRACTS
http://www.silicon.com/a50439 If you're not in, you can get Unisys to answer your call - BT has signed another deal with the managed services provider to manage its free voicemail service. Will it be enough to keep customers out of the hands of Telewest and NTL?
UNISYS CLINCHES £40m BT CONTRACT
http://www.silicon.com/a50437 Nice to see Hutchison 3G making moves - it's signed up the BBC to manage its video content. Since it also has the rights to Premiership football, could this mean the return of match of the day, only to a smaller screen than ever before?
HUTCHISON 3G HOOKS UP WITH THE BBC
http://www.silicon.com/a50332 Even though its budget is bigger than the bomb-bay of a B-52, the US Military is still trying to cut costs. Chasing villains isn't cheap, and the military has signed up B2B e-marketplace specialist Ariba to help put an end to the notorious days of $600 toilet seats.
US MILITARY SIGNS UP ARIBA
http://www.silicon.com/a50042