Mobile UC Client for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile Devices delivers mobility to UC users. Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced the availability of OpenScape Mobility, delivering mobility to a wide variety of UC users regardless of their location. OpenScape Mobility brings together, for the first time, from a single vendor, enterprise telephony, video, unified communications, [...]

Following BenQ’s decision to cease German production of mobile telephones, Siemens has stopped payment of 117 million euros to BenQ’s Taiwanese parent company. Questions concerning patents also remain unresolved. Siemens spokesperson Wolfram Trost said payment of 117 million euros (nearly $149 million) is now in a trust fund. Trost said that according to liquidators, it [...]

South African telecoms operators are preparing to provide end customers with the same Quality of Service and bandwidth as their international counterparts by deploying new networks which use IP-based technologies as their foundation. Mark van Vuuren, MD Fixed Networks, Siemens Communications, says the demand for next-generation services is on the increase. “Next-generation services intrinsically require [...]

At an ITWeb IT Confidence Conference held in Johannesburg, Canadian technology entrepreneur, venture partner and author Leonard Brody claimed that the country has to roll-out WiMAX if it is to be a global competitor in the technology arena. He pointed out that Canada had learned many lessons in turning around from a disastrous financial deficit [...]

As the two European giants join forces to compete globally, telecom’s long-awaited wave of consolidation has likely begun By pooling their resources in the highly competitive telecom equipment business, Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG stand a better chance of competing for huge contracts that will soon come up for bid in critical growth markets such [...]

Also focusing on smaller deployments is Siemens, which is set to launch its BizIP offering for small offices. The product includes SIP-based, peer-to-peer IP phones and a broadband router/firewall/VoIP and PSTN gateway; the BizIP AD 20, plugs into a broadband cable modem or DSL link and provides Power over Ethernet LAN links to the BizIP410e [...]

Telkom has been a Siemens Telephonic Business Services partner since 1999: Telkom and the Business Systems unit of Siemens Limited linked up to provide state-of-the-art telephonic business services to large commercial and corporate customers. A partnership made in heaven by these two giants of industry. Siemens has worked closely and extremely happily with Telkom in other market segments [...]