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Ericsson sold its private radio systems operation to Com-Net Critical Communications for an undisclosed sum, retaining a small stake... Centennial Technologies bought Intel's flash memory card business... Motorola and General Instrument completed their $17bn merger... Adaptec completed the $236m acquisition of Distributed Processing Technology... Infineon Technologies acquired the mobile communications devices software division of debis Systemhaus, a DaimlerChrysler subsidiary... Tellabs is to buy mediation-switch specialist Salix Technologies for $300m in stock... Cisco Systems is to buy Pirelli's optical systems business for $2.15bn. Cisco has also bought Michigan's Internet Engineering Group, a software developer, for $25m... TTI bought fellow Texan distributor Mouser Electronics for an undisclosed sum, its first ever acquisition... Smiths Industries bought Invensys' aerospace division, which specialises in electrical power management and aircraft utilities, for $175m. Smiths is also to acquire Sabritec, a high-performance connectors company, for #32.3m... Invensys acquired UPS company Best Power from SPX for #145m. It sold torque sensor company Lebow Products to Celesco Transducers for #6m and DCE Dust Control to Donaldson Company for #33m... Panasonic and Kodak formed a joint venture, Matsushita Media Manufacturing, to manufacture DVDs and other optical media products... NTL bought the Cablecom Group, Switzerland's largest cable operator, from Swisscom, Siemens and VEBA for $3.7bn... Roxboro is to acquire the Mobrey group of level, flow and pressure instrumentation product companies for #22.25m cash.