Vendor strategy N55

Broadcom bought privately held Zeevo, a Bluetooth chipmaker, for $ 32m.

Siemens could merge its SBS division with Atos Origin. The combined entity could reach

Europe’s second rank with about $9bn in revenues.

Amdocs unveils its IP Convergence Solution for IPTV systems. Amdocs is working with an

extensive IPTV partner ecosystem, including Bitband, Intel, Kasenna, NagraVision, NDS,

OpenTV and Orca Interactive, but also with Microsoft.

Motorola introduces VoIP-enabled VT2000 Series home network gateways. It has invested

in A4Vision Inc., a provider of 3-D facial-scanning and -recognition software and equipment.

Oracle is trying to buy Retek, a leading supplier of retail-management applications, in a

$9-per-share tender offer.

Gemplus (smart card supplier) could swallow Ingenico (leader in payment terminals).

Alcatel could license IPWireless’ UMTS-TDD chipset technology.

Nortel will not be the last to demonstrate OFDM-MIMO technology (see them at CTIA

Wireless 2005 in New Orleans).

Ericsson unveils a new content payment system, Internet Payment eXchange.

Microsoft has bought Groove Networks, a collaboration software provider.

Marconi signed a reseller agreement with Airspan.

T-Networks unveiled new 40Gbit/s transmitters and modulators.

Nokia has joined the WWiSE 802.11n Group, as well as Motorola.