Cisco, Huawei
In a discussion with the Wall Street Journal, Cisco CEO John Chambers identified his company's biggest competitor: Huawei. Piling on to concerns that have already been expressed — and acted on — by the US government, Australian government, and even Symantec, Chambers said Huawei was a company that doesn't...

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We often take for granted in the United States and other countries that we can look at what we want on the Internet. In many places that isn't the case We often take for granted in the United States and other countries that we can look at what we want on the Internet. In many places that isn’t the case...

TVs, Cisco
Cisco on Thursday announced plans to acquire NDS Group, which develops software for television networks, for $5 billion.

NDS, which was founded in Israel in 1988 and is headquartered in London, develops software and services "that make enjoying TV anywhere, anytime and on any device a possibility,"...

Desktop Computers, CPU, Intel, Cisco
Cisco this week expanded its data center portfolio with servers and networking gear to better support virtualization, cloud computing and big data.

Cisco says the rollout represents its third-generation fabric computing platform and addresses data center scale and promptness in responding to changing...

Microsoft, Cisco
Cisco has taken time out from axing unpopular and overpriced teleconferencing systems to complain about Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, challenging the EC with demands for greater priority for open video standards. Although Cisco doesn’t oppose the acquisition, video conferencing chief Marthin De Beer...

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Cisco Systems, the company that wants to build “the human network” released their annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast today, and they foresee mobile users consuming data in 2016 at a rate 8x higher than they project for this year.

How much data is that? Cisco expects mobile data usage in...

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The data meteorologists at Cisco say the upcoming forecast extending into the year 2015 calls for a 12-fold increase in global cloud traffic, compared to 2010. Cisco doesn't expect data center traffic to grow quite as steadily, but it will still zoom past 2010 levels and show a four-fold increase by...

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Cisco seems to be in a very different place now than it was about six months ago. The networking and telecommunications giant recently hired a new general manager of its Home Networking Business Unit. That's the same division of Cisco that many predicted would be shuttered after CEO John Chambers announced...

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Cisco announced on Tuesday that it will layoff 9% of its workforce, or 6,500 jobs, in an effort to boost profits. That figure is lower than original speculation that the company would cut 10,000 employees. Cisco made the move as part of an effort to cut $1 billion in annual costs while spurring profit...

Cisco, RIM BlackBerry
What is it about the mass-market consumer space that attracts so many business-savvy companies and ultimately hobbles or even dooms them? There are companies, like Apple, that obviously understand consumers and consumer marketing strategy and then there are companies like Cisco and Research in Motion...

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Cisco is reportedly preparing to reduce its workforce by approximately 14 percent, a move that may eliminate 10,000 positions. The company is said to be planning 7,000 layoffs by the end of August, while early-retirement incentives will be offered to another 3,000 employees, unnamed sources have told...

Notebooks, Cisco, Cius
Cisco launches AppHQ for $750 Cius tablet

Cisco has launched a new app platform for its enterprise-centric Cius tablet. Its new AppHQ includes a relatively small collection of both free and paid apps. The new app ecosystem is also designed to allow companies to create private, custom branded application...

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Cisco Systems has announced an app ecosystem for its Android-based Cius tablet. Marking the company's entry into a crowded landscape, "AppHQ" will focus on IT managers and professionals, according to the company.

The AppHQ app ecosystem is designed for IT pros seeking to create, manage and deploy...

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If you think your daily commute to work is overcrowded, just wait until 2015 and try driving on the Internet's highways. By then, network traffic will have quadrupled to 966 exabytes per year as a con...

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Many Flip fans are already sporting black arm bands with little red spots in honor of the dying brand, and the New York Times reports there's more bad news coming. Starting May 12th, all videos upload...