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• Companies not using social nets at risk, report says

  A majority of consumers want to interact with companies over social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but only 30 per cent of businesses are prepared for it, according to a survey.

• Nigeria moves to query Siemens on bribery allegations

  Siemens may not be able to bid for telecom projects in Africa any time soon, following a move by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite senior officials of the company in for questioning over an alleged €17.5 million (US$21 million) in bribes to Nigerian government officials.

• Nigeria asks Germany for info on Siemens bribery case

  Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is asking German authorities for a copy of the sentence a Munich court handed in the case of two former Siemens managers found guilty of bribery to obtain telecom contracts in Nigeria.

• Updated: Siemens acquires Eden Technology amid global job cuts

  Siemens has announced the acquisition of Australian asset and evidence management solutions company, Eden Technology. The company's products will become a part of the Siemiens' IT Solutions and Services portfolio of productivity offerings.

• Huawei reaches for WiMax, LTE tech leadership

  Huawei Technologies, a growing presence in mobile infrastructure, has been credited with driving down prices worldwide but downplayed that factor at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas.

• Siemens announces 4,200 job cuts

  Siemens has announced the cull of 4200 jobs worldwide from its IT business.

• Project uses light to transmit data, crushes WiFi speeds

  A Siemens research project has recently broken the record for wirelessly transmitting data, by making use of white LEDs light-emitting diodes instead of radio waves.

• Siemens invokes Twitter to lure unified communications application developers

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter.

• Deadline closes for Nortel enterprise sale

  Avaya may be competing against other suitors in its efforts to acquire the enterprise assets of Nortel Networks, published reports indicate.

• Avaya reportedly offering US$500M for Nortel enterprise biz

  Nortel is reportedly close to selling its enterprise division to Avaya for US$500 million.

• SaaS HR vendor lands global deal with Siemens

  SuccessFactors, maker of SaaS (software as a service) applications for employee performance and talent management, announced Monday that it has landed a global agreement with Siemens, in another sign of the on-demand model's growing acceptance by enterprises.

• Report: Nokia Siemens bids for much of Nortel

  Nokia Siemens Networks, Avaya and Siemens Enterprise Communications are moving in to buy parts of troubled Nortel Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

• Siemens launches cloud experiment

  Siemens is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a unified-communications-in-the-cloud experiment with Amazon.com, which could result in services that avoid capital costs and provide an easy exit plan if customers decide to bail out of individual service elements.

• Mobiles usher in phoney daylight saving's sleep-in

  Mobile phones and PDAs may be loaded with more gadgets and gigabytes than ever, but a mountain of mobiles that adjusted for daylight savings a week early proved they can still be foiled by the tick of a clock.
  

• Siemens pleads guilty to bribery-related charges

  German electronics firm Siemens and three of its subsidiaries have pleaded guilty to charges related to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), for a range of activity, including attempted bribery of government officials worldwide, according to two U.S. agencies.