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Archive for December, 2008

New Cisco Devices Help Distribute Music Through Home

December 31st, 2008

Cisco Systems Inc. will start selling a music player that gives users access to their digital songs and photos from wireless devices around the house, the first of a new line of products aimed at the living room.

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Tags: cisco, music, network

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Internet Down! Major Undersea Cables Broken

December 20th, 2008

Breaking news: something’s happening to the internet, right now. We’re just not quite sure what. Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

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Tags: internet

internet, networking

First Cisco Entrepreneur Institute Class Starting in Ankara

December 19th, 2008

ANKARA, Turkey – The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) and Cisco inaugurated the Cisco
® Entrepreneur Institute in Ankara. The opening ceremony was attended by Zafer Caglayan, Minister of Trade and Industry; Halim Mete, vice president of the Board of TOBB and Serdar Sayan, director of the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute.

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Analysis: Is Apple about to have an enterprise moment?

December 18th, 2008

Does the combination of a few recent factors
—the recent shift in the enterprise toward mobiles, virtualization, and dissatisfaction with Windows Vista—spell gold for Apple in the enterprise? Ars investigates.

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Tags: apple

business

Cisco Dissapointed by Open Source Lawsuit

December 13th, 2008

Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation alleges that networking Giant Cisco has violated the GPL.

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Tags: cisco, gpl, linux, open source

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Cisco Plans TelePresence Translation Next Year

December 11th, 2008

Cisco will add real-time translation to its TelePresence high-definition conference technology next year, enabling people in several different countries to meet virtually and each hear the other participants’ comments in their own languages.

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Tags: cisco, telepresence

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10 of the Worst Technology Predictions of All Time.

December 11th, 2008

‘Next Christmas the iPod will be kaput’: How Sir Alan Sugar got it wrong 174million times. Sir Alan Sugar made one of the ten worst technology predictions of all time with his claim that the iPod would never become popular.

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Tags: ipod

humor, interesting

Cisco Cancels Annual Sales Meeting

December 1st, 2008

Cisco Systems has canceled its annual Global Sales Meeting. The gathering was scheduled August 18-31, 2009, in San Francisco, and was expected to bring together thousands of Cisco’s internal salespeople.

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Tags: cisco

business, networking, routers