We may be getting into the dog days of summer, but some vendors aren't ready for vacation just yet. This week's roundup of companies that came to win include AT&T, which made a key acquisition; Hewlett-Packard, for the important additions it made to its board of directors; a leading cloud service provider that took off the gloves and broke out some competitive blogging; a CRM application developer that rolled out new software; and a smartphone maker that hasn't had a lot of good news lately got a much needed break.