Also

* CA Inc.’s former Chief Financial Officer Ira Zar was sentenced to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention after pleading guilty to criminal charges and cooperating with prosecutors investigating a massive accounting fraud at the Islandia, N.Y.-based software company.

* South Korea-based Hynix Semiconductor Inc. lost a bid to revisit a $133.4-million damage award to Los Altos, Calif.-based Rambus Inc. in a patent lawsuit over computer memory chip technology, as a federal judge said he might decide next month whether to allow the case to move into its final phase.

* New York-based Verizon Wireless is raising the text messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.