Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Perhaps not so much for the notorious ‘King of Spam’ who pled guilty and now faces a potential 26-year prison sentence and a sit-down with a lie detector and authorities to discuss financial assets in relation to his unpaid legal fines. BMC, though, is celebrating — if not for the Irish then at least for buying BladeLogic and its data center automation software for $800 million. Microsoft says that Windows Mobile will support Flash and PDF, meaning that users of devices based on the OS will be able to run both Adobe software and Microsoft’s own Silverlight tool for building multimedia applications. eBay announces that it will take over affiliate program’s management for its core marketplace and its Half.com site. And IBM’s India research laboratory develops a customer service tool that, Big Blue claims, uses algorithms to discover business insights hidden within the data customer service calls collect. Software Development