Neowin News Feed for: Cisco

Cisco teams up with Microsoft for new Cloud OS data centers

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:47:35 +0100

Cisco announced a new partnership with Microsoft that will allow businesses to acquire a cloud-based system that combines Cisco's Unified Data Center with Microsoft's Fast Track architecture. Read more...

Belkin completes Linksys purchase; Linksys brand will continue

John Callaham — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:33:58 +0000

Belkin has announced it has completed its previously announced plans to acquire Linksys from Cisco but will continue to release networking and WiFi products under the Linksys brand. Read more...

Super Bowl 2013 WiFi network designed to handle 30,000 connections

John Callaham — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:04:35 +0000

The Superdome in New Orleans, venue for today's Super Bowl, has a new WiFi network that's designed to handle 30,000 connections at once, which hopefully should be enough. Read more...

Belkin buys Linksys

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:14:18 +0000

Belkin has announced that they've bought the Home Networking Business Unit from Cisco, which includes Linksys, for an undisclosed amount. With the purchase, they'll occupy around 30% of the market Read more...

Neowin's five most popular articles of 2012

John Callaham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:33:53 +0000

We list our top five most read stories of 2012, which include a personal story on how piracy affected a Neowin writer, a blow up over a Samsung ad using an actor from an Apple ad and more. Read more...

Cisco study goes after Skype for its "proprietary standards"

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:57:00 +0000

In a study that was commissioned by Cisco, two economic professors are highly critical of Microsoft's Skype, claiming that its "proprietary standards" are a problem for non-Skype users. Read more...

Cisco removes cloud sign ups from default router settings

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:40:46 +0100

Cisco's VP Brett Wingo has announced in a new company blog post that it has now "changed the default setting back to traditional router set-up and management" instead of its cloud service. Read more...

Cisco locks users out of their routers, requires invasive cloud service

Tyler Holman — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:32:02 +0100

A new firmware update for Cisco routers comes with a nasty surprise: users are forced to join an invasive cloud service that spies on you and polices what you do, or else be left with a useless router Read more...

Internet traffic to reach zettabyte by 2015

Paul Ferson — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:40:01 +0100

We know the future of the internet is only going to see more development, but it can be hard to really comprehend it. We take a look at what a zettabyte is and where the internet could go, given time. Read more...

Cisco to shut down its Android-based Cius tablet

John Callaham — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:12:52 +0100

Cisco has announced that it is shutting down production of its business-oriented Cius tablet. The Android powered device was first announced in 2010 but never caught on. Read more...

Cisco wants EU to look again at Microsoft-Skype merger

John Callaham — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:16:14 +0000

Cisco announced today that it has filed an appeal to the European Union to revisit its approval of October's merger of Microsoft and Skype in order to put in some new conditions. Read more...

Social media is more important than food

Tyler Holman — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:46:51 +0000

Our 'need' to keep up with Facebook updates and that tweet that someone sent 7.65 seconds ago is so strong that our brains actually places it before our need for food and water. Read more...

Cisco officially confirms it will cut 6,500 employees

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:14:04 +0100

After lots of rumors, the networking company Cisco announced today that it would indeed cut a large number of its employees. In a press release today, the company revealed it plans to lay of 6,500... Read more...

Report: Cisco to cut as many as 10,000 employees

John Callaham — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:05:24 +0100

The struggling network switching and router company Cisco could cut as many as 10,000 of its employees in order to save as much as $1 billion. Bloomberg reports via unnamed sources that 7,000 employees will... Read more...

Report: WiFi net traffic to overtake wired traffic by 2015

John Callaham — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:31:50 +0100

While cable and other ISPs keep trying to sell faster and faster Internet traffic to customers (Google is prepping to sell 1 Gbps service in Kansas City in 2012) it looks like more and more... Read more...

Mobile broadband traffic nearly tripled in 2010

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:08:10 +0000

According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index concerning mobile data across the globe, there was 2.6 times more traffic in 2010 over 2009. All of this data came out to be roughly 237 petabytes per month,... Read more...

Cisco working on Android tablet for the enterprise

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:19:39 +0100

Cisco announced Tuesday that they are adding their name to the long list of new tablets on the market. The new tablet, scheduled to be released in early 2011, will be called the Cisco Cius... Read more...

European flight ban boosts video conferencing demand

Matt Blowes — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:30:32 +0100

Video conferencing has seen a boost as business travel has been restricted due to large parts of Europe's airspace being closed as ash from an Icelandic volcano covers the sky. Cisco Systems's TelePresence Technology Group... Read more...

Cisco: 87% of Europeans have a security enabled wireless network

Tom Warren — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:38:08 +0000

Cisco research has revealed today that 87% of respondents surveyed across 10 European countries with a wireless internet connection at home said that they have security enabled on their wireless home network. The online survey, commissioned... Read more...

Cisco's new blade servers to compete with existing partners

Fred Derf — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:43:45 +0000

Cisco Systems is going to go in direct competition with their existing partners such as IBM and HP with the release of their new blade server line. Previously content to offer network connectivity solutions like... Read more...