Global vendor strategies - 18/11/06

Siemens is embarassed with news that half a dozen Siemens employees, in its fixed line networks business, should have divert funds in order to bribe potential customers. Several were arrested.

Motorola is opening a R&D center in S. Korea to develop technologies for ubiquitous sensor networks.

Qualcomm bought nPhase, in order to complement its machine-to-machine (M2M) portfolio.

IBM is opening a telecom infrastructure center for business support systems in Montpellier, France, focused on billing, customer care and service management.

Avaya is to buy Traverse Networks, which makes enterprise mobility software.