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Cisco Linksys EA2700 Dual-Band N600 Router Hits the FCC

Those of you searching for a new dual-band Wireless N router will soon have one more option to check out as Cisco is getting ready to release the Linksys EA2700 N600. The router has recently visited FCC’s offices, where it was spotted by Wireless Goodness as it won approval for operation in the 2.4GHz and 5.0G...

10 February 2012
14:31 GMT

Cisco and Citrix Partner for Large-Scale Virtualization

In another episode of IT industry team-ups, Cisco and Citrix have joined forces, hoping to help the world transition from the PC era to the cloud, as the press release puts it. For those who don't know, Cisco is a high-profile, worldwide provider of networking solutions, while Citrix specializes in virtual c...

12 October 2011
09:25 GMT

Cisco Cius Is a 7-Inch Android Tablet for Enterprise

Media tablets may be the only sort of tablet many people know of, but there are other sorts of slates, like the Cisco Cius which, though featuring many similarities with consumer models, is aimed at the Enterprise sector. IT companies have launched or announced plans for the unveiling of quite a few tablets ever ...

28 September 2011
03:59 GMT

Cisco Reveals Identity Services Engine Vulnerability

The company posted an advisory in which it alerts customers that the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) contains a set of default credentials that can be used by hackers to modify the configuration and settings of the device and even gain complete control over it. The advisory was released on September 20 and th...

21 September 2011
06:19 GMT

Cisco CDs Lead to Rogue Website

Cisco warns customers who received warranty CDs between December 2010 and August 2011 that they led to a website known as a malware repository."When the CD is opened with a web browser, it automatically and without warning accesses this third-party website. Additionally, on computers where the operating system is con...

4 August 2011
10:56 GMT

Cisco Ponders Firing Thousands of Employees

Even though the world economy is said to be moving forward again, some companies are still performing layoffs, one of said corporations, apparently, being none other than Cisco.Large IT companies, like those of other segments, are always those that offer employment to most people.Unfortunately, this also means that,...

12 July 2011
05:56 GMT

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking

A former Cisco engineer was arrested last year on charges of hacking into his former employer's network and is currently awaiting extradition in Canada.The charges against Peter Alfred-Adekeye, a British national who worked for Cisco before leaving to start his own company, were reported in local Vancouver media...

21 April 2011
06:55 GMT

Thunderbird Development Moved to Mozilla Labs

Mozilla Messaging, the team responsible with developing applications like F1, Raindrop and mainly the Thunderbird email client, will be integrated in the Mozilla Labs project, as Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation announced the world through her blog.To be fair, the Messagin...

5 April 2011
08:05 GMT

Cisco's New Linksys E4200 Dual-Band Router Is Sleek, Cool Looking

For many computer users from all over the world, the external design of just about any piece of IT-related gear they purchase is an extremely important element when making a final purchase decision, and that's probably the reason why Cisco has decided to deliver its new Linksys E4200 Dual-Band router in quite an...

19 January 2011
02:42 GMT

Cisco Reinvents Video Conferencing with WebEx for iPad 2.0

Cisco has announced the new WebEx 2.0 iPad app, which allows users to attend WebEx meetings on their Apple tablet, wherever they are. Participants can enjoy the full meeting experience with simultaneous data and audio, as well as new features like high-quality streaming video that takes mobile web conferencing to new...

7 December 2010
07:01 GMT

Fired Apple Exec Mark Papermaster Joins Cisco

Several major media outlets are reporting that former Apple executive Mark Papermaster has joined Cisco to work on "chips for switches," as noted by a Fox Business reporter via Twitter. Papermaster, also a former IBM employee, had been on Apple’s payroll for less than two years before reportedly getting sacked ...

15 November 2010
04:15 GMT

Cisco Fixes Multiple Wireless LAN Controller Vulnerabilities

Cisco has released software updates to address security issues affecting multiple series of its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) and Wireless Services Module (WiSM) devices."Cisco WLCs and Cisco WiSMs are responsible for system-wide wireless LAN functions, such as security policies, intrusion prevention, RF management, ...

9 September 2010
12:44 GMT

Cisco May Be Interested in Skype

Just when things were settling down for Skype and the newly-independent company was on its way towards an initial public offering, comes the rumor that Cisco may be interested in buying the VoIP company before the IPO goes through.Cisco has made an offer to buy Skype, according to TechCrunch, though this comes from o...

30 August 2010
04:53 GMT

Serious Cisco IE 3000 Switches Vulnerability Will Be Fixed in August

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco Industrial Ethernet 3000 (IE 3000) Series switches running 12.2(52)SE or 12.2(52)SE1 versions of Cisco IOS. The vendor has scheduled an update to the software for next month and in the meantime has provided manual workaround instructions.Just as their name...

14 July 2010
11:08 GMT

Cisco Licenses iOS Trademark to Apple

Kristin Carvell, of the Cisco Corporate Communications team, has revealed in a blog post that the American corporation handling networking and communications technology and services has agreed to license the iOS trademark to Apple. The move comes amid rumors of Apple implementing the iPhone OS into new platforms, suc...

9 June 2010
10:19 GMT

RIM Intros BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5

On Monday, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the launch of BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 (BlackBerry MVS 5), which includes voice over Wi-Fi calling. According to the company, the new BlackBerry MVS 5 works with Cisco Unified Communications Manager and is capable of offering business custom...

27 April 2010
04:04 GMT

Cisco Makes Home Wireless Easy with Valet Routers

Cisco recently unveiled its latest series of 802.11n wireless routers, known as the Valet, which, compared to the company's previous products, seems to be significantly more user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing. Made with the assistance of the Flip team, acquired not long ago, the Valet routers are described...

31 March 2010
07:04 GMT

Cisco's Tandberg Acquisition Gets Regulators' Approval

Cisco has announced that its proposed acquisition of teleconferencing service provider Tandberg has been approved by both the European Commission and the US Department of Justice. The transaction can now move forward and the two companies believe the acquisition will close in no longer than a few weeks. Cisco made it...

30 March 2010
06:18 GMT

Cisco Unveils New Monster Router

Cisco's much-hyped announcement is finally out and it looks like the big words were warranted, this thing will indeed "forever change the Internet." Or, then again, probably not. It's just a router, very surprising given that it's coming from Cisco, granted, but a router nonetheless. Actually a 'r...

10 March 2010
05:02 GMT

Microsoft Building the Future for Your Children

One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems f...

6 February 2010
06:52 GMT

Microsoft Making Progress on 21st Century Learning and Teaching Skills Project

Come February 2010, no less than five countries around the world will kick off pilot projects in their schools designed to bring 21st-century teaching and learning in classrooms. Developed through a collaboration between Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) project i...

12 January 2010
08:46 GMT

Linksys WAP610-N Access Point Goes Well with Your New Ultraportable

The holiday season is here and for some of you, there's still enough time to search for more gifts that are to put a smile on the face of the ones close to you. Now, if you are looking for something that can go well with that ultraportable notebook you recently bought, then you might want to take a look at one ...

16 December 2009
04:19 GMT

Cisco Wants to Score on the Data-Center Market

A few years ago, Cisco made a daring incursion into the corporate telephony market, even though it had absolutely no experience in that area or even knowledge of how that market worked. Nevertheless, the world-class networking gear provider did rather well for itself, securing no less than 33% of the entire market. C...

9 December 2009
05:19 GMT

Cisco to Go Ahead with Tandberg Acquisition

Cisco has announced it plans to go ahead with the acquisition of Norwegian video conferencing services and equipment provider Tandberg. The company had previously made an offer to buy all outstanding shares with the Norwegian company valued at $3.4 billion. It now says it has managed to acquire 89 percent of the shar...

4 December 2009
08:11 GMT

Cisco Raises the Bid for Tandberg to $3.4 Billion

Cisco has been in acquisition mode lately and has been picking up companies it deems interesting, sometimes for a hefty sum. More than a month ago, the networking giant announced its plans to acquire Norwegian video conferencing technology company Tandberg for $3 billion. The investors were apparently unimpressed by...

16 November 2009
11:59 GMT

Cisco and Logitech May Give Cellphone-Level Popularity to Videoconferencing

After years when the videoconferencing technology didn't have a good-enough broadband to take advantage of, the advances in networking (the Ethernet, for instance) may finally be able to provide enough resources for the worldwide spreading of videoconferencing solutions. Cisco and Logitech seem to be in a race t...

16 November 2009
05:00 GMT

Logitech Plans to Grab Low and Mid-End Videoconferencing Market Through LifeSize

Until not so long ago, business representatives had to travel up to thousands of miles in order to present other companies with offers or marketing plans. As such, collaborations between businesses separated by long distances went slowly and saw more emerging obstacles than today. The invention of the webcam was the ...

11 November 2009
03:36 GMT

Cisco Launches Full Suite of Email and Social Tools for Enterprise

Cisco is well known in some circles for its networking hardware and services, but, lately, it has been acquiring a string of companies in diverse fields showing that it is ready to move into different markets and that it's bound to become one of the big tech giants. Now, it's encroaching further into foreig...

9 November 2009
05:19 GMT

Cisco Acquires Video Conferencing Firm Tandberg

The economy may not exactly be roaring back to life but it does look like it's picking up slightly if only from the wave of big acquisitions lately. Cisco is the latest to the party as it announces it has bought Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion, a nice plump sum for this type of compa...

1 October 2009
10:18 GMT

Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series Now Supports Skype

Despite mounting legal issues and the recent sale, Skype is moving ahead with plans to increase revenue. One area where it wants to generate more income is from business services and the company has just announced that its Skype for SIP offering is now supported by Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 Series for ...

23 September 2009
10:41 GMT

The Internet Took Almost 40 Years to Consume All IPv4 Addresses

On October 29th, the Internet will turn 40 years old. Marking this occasion, IEEE has held an international event in Los Angeles, USA to mark its own 125th anniversary and the upcoming birthday of the former ARPAnet project, currently referred to as the Internet. At this event many renowned scientists and Internet ex...

18 September 2009
08:53 GMT

Cisco's WLAN Access Point Vulnerability

AirMagnet, a wireless security provider, has recently disclosed a vulnerability inside Cisco Access Point discovery procedure for WLANs. This allows attackers to sniff network details from existing network traffic thanks to unencrypted multicast frames or sky-jack a Cisco equipment every time an access point is conne...

25 August 2009
11:15 GMT

Cisco Patches DDOS Vulnerability in Its BGP Protocol

Cisco, the leader in networking tools around the globe, has recently released a patch for its routers and switches fixing a critical vulnerability in its IOS BGP protocol. This vulnerability allowed hackers to fool an equipment to think it was under attack and remotely shut it down. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is a...

22 August 2009
04:09 GMT

Cisco Partners with Warner Brothers to Provide the Label with a Web Platform

Cisco may be well known for its high-end networking hardware but it's pushing hard into other, sometimes completely unrelated, fields like consumer electronics and software. The company has now announced with Warner Brothers Music Group a new deal in which the big music label will use Cisco's Eos platform t...

13 August 2009
08:16 GMT

Video Expected to Make Up for 90 Percent of All Internet Traffic by 2013

Cisco, the renowned communications hardware and software maker, has issued a forecast of IP traffic for the coming years. The company expects IP traffic to increase fivefold compared to today, reaching two-thirds of a zettabyte by 2013. That's two thirds of a trillion gigabytes with a compound annual growth rate...

10 June 2009
05:35 GMT

Clearwire and Cisco Team Up for 4G Expansion

Clearwire Corporation announced on Wednesday a partnership with Cisco, aimed at the enhancement and expansion of CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services in the United States. According to the agreement, Cisco will become Clearwire's national Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure provider, whil...

14 May 2009
03:12 GMT

New Cisco Unified Computing System

With the introduction of a new data center architecture, Cisco made a key move in bringing to life its Data Center 3.0 strategy. The Cisco Unified Computing System, in combination with services and an open ecosystem, has Microsoft's blessing. The Redmond company revealed that it has inked an agreement with Cisco...

16 March 2009
10:22 GMT

Cisco, Partner in Portugal's 'Internet in the Classroom' Project

The government of Portugal developed the Technological Plan for Education with the focus on integrating new technologies in the educational system. As a partner working to make the Technological Plan for Education a reality, Cisco technologies will be used to provide high-quality LANs as well as wireless network conn...

12 March 2009
06:11 GMT

The First 'Virtual Auction' Held by Cisco

Yesterday, March 11, 2009, Cisco announced on its Newsroom that it would help the ones in need by participating to the Red Nose auction, initiated by Comic Relief. Also, the company is preparing for its first “Virtual Auction,” because its personnel from Ireland and UK will be a part of the program too. T...

12 March 2009
04:13 GMT

Cisco Releases 802.11n Wireless Access Point

Yesterday, Cisco announced the launch of an innovative wireless access point that combined the full performance of 802.11n with deployment simplicity, thus allowing businesses to support the growing trend and diversity of mobile devices and software, while still obtaining financial profit. The company releases the ne...

14 January 2009
02:14 GMT

Microsoft Building International Assessment Standard for Educational Systems

Microsoft is one of the companies involved in the development of a new international assessment standard designed to measure accurately the performance of educational systems worldwide. The Redmond giant has partnered with Cisco and Intel, and revealed commitment to combine their efforts in order to fuel a multi-sect...

13 January 2009
07:59 GMT

Cisco Announces Its New Consumer Channel Network

Cisco announced recently the launch of a new channel initiative which, is aimed at channel resellers from the United States and Canada that are moving into the home and small office/home office (SOHO) area of the market. The Cisco CCN (Cisco Consumer Channel Network) is a component of the popular Channel Partner Prog...

13 January 2009
02:35 GMT

People Watch Videos Anytime, Anywhere

Cisco sponsored an online research study, concerning the number of video watchers, as well as their attitude and behavior, especially on their mobile phones. The study was made first to verify how USA consumers use online technology and its impact on their political decision making and then it was launched worldwide....

9 January 2009
08:41 GMT

The Free Software Foundation Sues Cisco

The Free Software Foundation, one of the principal advocates and protectors of open source software has filed a complaint against communications technology giant Cisco for copyright infringement. According to the foundation, Cisco had been using programs such as GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) or the GLibC (GNU C Libra...

12 December 2008
12:35 GMT

Cisco Releases Several Important Security Advisories

Cisco published no less than 12 new security advisories on September 24 describing multiple moderate and high risk vulnerabilities that affect the IOS software and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Software updates have been released to address some of these security issues, so updating immediately is highly ...

25 September 2008
05:24 GMT

The Microsoft and Cisco Marriage: Addressing Emerging Customer Needs

The debut of September 2008 marked the one year anniversary of the Microsoft and Cisco marriage on the interoperability front. The two companies permitted customers to dictate the next move in their competitive "ballet," and in this regard kicked up a notch the interoperability level of Cisco hardware and Microsoft s...

4 September 2008
08:48 GMT

Cisco Patches Meeting Service Serious Vulnerability

Cisco updated their previously released advisory, regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebEx Meeting Manager, with a permanent patch. The vulnerability, with a 9.3 Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base score, can allow for arbitrary code execution if exploited successfully.An ActiveX control buffer overflo...

18 August 2008
10:24 GMT

The Open Patent Alliance Is Formed

As we told you before, Intel is placing significant importance on the development of WiMAX on a global scale. As part of the company's commitment to offer users a worldwide spread WiMAX network, Intel has recently announced that it will partner with a number of other major companies in order to accelerate widesp...

11 June 2008
04:45 GMT

FBI's Own Offices "Infected" with Counterfeit Cisco Hardware

The United States government is reportedly using no less than 3500 fake Cisco-branded network devices, including routers, network switches and hubs. According to the investigation results, the fake devices are worth up to $3.5 million. The FBI has been keeping an eye on the China imports of networking gear for some t...

12 May 2008
04:55 GMT

Cisco Might Prematurely Trash its Linksys Brand

Network giant Cisco could dissolve its Linksys home networking-oriented brand sooner than anyone would expect. The networking specialist has been selling its consumer and small-business products under both brands, a strategy that is proven to confuse the consumer.According to Cisco's chairman and CEO John Chambe...

15 April 2008
11:01 GMT


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