Internet and wireless networking gear maker Cisco Systems posted better-than-expected profits for its third quarter, but issued a forecast that disappointed some analysts and investors. Cisco beat both earnings and revenue targets from analysts, with revenue up 18 percent to US$7.32 billion as consu...
I spent a lot of time last week reading the Microsoft employee blogs and apparently there is some reasonably strong feeling among many folks who work there that the wrong "Steve" is running the company. This is, in my view, a "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" type of perception -- s...
As an industry, delivery of television programming into the home over broadband connections is barely off the ground, but it's already showing signs of consolidation. A continuing series of acquisitions in the IP video market will ultimately result in a smaller number of vendors, according to a repo...
Apparently eyeing the worn pathway from enterprise technology to the consumer marketplace, Cisco Systems is said to be mulling a plan to produce electronics and related products for home use. The Financial Times reported that Cisco is on the brink of rolling out a range of Web-connected products, in...
The most pronounced vendor battle we saw this past year was the battle between Microsoft and the open-source community. This one was particularly strange to watch because it seemed that both sides were doing more to help, rather than hurt, the other. Almost every time a large number of open-source ...
We got the bad news out of the way last week when I highlighted four companies I see as likely to go into decline next year. This time let's focus on the major technology trends coming in 2006 and point to some companies you may not have heard of that should benefit from these trends, both corporat...
In the month of November, three things happened nearly back-to-back that have had significant effects on the technology landscape. The first was the Sony rootkit fiasco, which may have changed the software arena forever. The second was the acquisition by Cisco of Scientific-Atlanta, in what was li...
Moving into position to add cable-quality video to the voice, data and wireless services that its products help telecoms and other companies provide, Cisco Systems said it will buy cable equipment maker Scientific-Atlanta in a deal worth US$6.9 billion. Cisco will pay $43 per share in cash in exchan...
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