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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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 More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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 More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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,... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
Cisco Systems announced in a press release on Tuesday the launch of a three-stage plan to help IT businesses reduce their carbon emissions, through the use of their new EnergyWise technology. Primarily designed for Cisco's... More...
Network giant Cisco has acquired email and calendaring software vendor PostPath for $215m, in a move seen as an attempt to compete with Microsoft in both the email and online collaboration markets. Cisco said PostPath's... More...
Cisco has developed 3D holographic telephony to create the world's first real time virtual presentation. Cisco CEO John Chambers, who was live on the Bangalore stage, 'beamed up' Martin De Beer, the Senior Vice... More...
Companies are wasting money on security processes — such as applying patches and using antivirus software — which just don't work, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart. Speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference... More...
At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, Cisco Systems Incorporated announced that the DPC3000 Channel Bonded Modem, which is designed to facilitate broadband services in excess of 100 Mbps, would be commercially available to... More...
Today seems to be executive switch-up day in the technology industry. We've already reported on Red Hat's CEO change, and now networking company Cisco has announced in a press release that executive vice president and... More...
Cisco Systems believes video is the killer app for the next generation of Internet. But that will likely not impact the enterprise for another five to seven years. Cisco at its C-Scape conference in San... More...
Cisco Systems has boosted its stock buyback effort by $10 billion, a sign the Internet networking supplier still believes its shares are undervalued. The move, announced Friday, is a way for the San Jose-based company... More...
The United Nations, Google and Cisco have put together a global campaign, the Millennium Development Goals, that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the project, called MDG Monitor,... More...
Cisco Systems Tuesday answered one of the biggest questions surrounding the 802.11n high-speed wireless standard by unveiling plans to ship draft-based products within the next two months. Cisco plans in October to begin shipping its... More...
Cisco Systems Thursday unveiled plans to add content security services to its routers via an extended partnership with Trend Micro. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking vendor plans soon to integrate Trend Micro technology into the... More...
Cisco Wednesday became the object of ridicule in the Blogosphere when it suffered a Cisco.com website outage for several hours. "Welcome. Welcome to a brand new day. A day that is, without Cisco's website," taunted... More...
Customer demand is driving Cisco to prevent a clash with Microsoft, but the networking giant seems uncertain about whether the firms can avoid a confrontation. Cisco chief executive John Chambers said in a meeting... More...
Mike Volpi, who previously headed up Cisco's routing business, has been appointed chief executive at online video start-up Joost. He left Cisco in February citing personal reasons after working for 13 years with the networking... More...
Apple Incorporated plans to start selling its iPhone (mobile phone, mp3 player & camera) in June while Cisco Systems Incorporated's iPhone (VoIP phone) is already on sale. The two companies agreed to share the iPhone... More...
Cisco has issued two sets of patches that address a number of security flaws in the software used to manage its wireless networking products. One fixes flaws in the Wireless Control System software used to... More...
Cisco Systems plans to spend $3.2 billion to buy the online conferencing company WebEx, both companies confirmed Thursday. The WebEx software and hosted service allows for on-demand collaboration between businesses and is to be a... More...
IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform,... More...
Cisco Systems bought selected assets of Utah Street Networks, a seven-person San Francisco company founded in 2003, and in this way effectively continues to buy its way into social networking. The San Jose, California-based company... More...
Thank you to Tech_Dude_5000 for submitting this to our front page. It seems Apple Incorporated has successfully evaded a particularly problematic trademark issue with network equipment maker Cisco Systems Incorporated. Cisco sued Apple for trademark... More...
The Cisco versus Apple trademark dispute still hasn't been resolved: Cisco is granting Apple's request for more time to reply to the lawsuit filed by the networking giant. "Cisco has agreed to give Apple an... More...
3Com Monday unveiled its strategy to combat the all-in-one networking approach espoused by rival Cisco Systems via a new Linux-based networking module it will use to integrate a variety of applications with its routers and... More...
Cisco is warning of three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System software; the company has published workarounds and issued an updated version of the software. A denial-of-service attack, running arbitrary code and a device having... More...
Hold the phone Apple. Get in line Cisco. When it comes to Canada, it turns out Comwave Telecom Inc. has dibs on the IPhone brand name. The Toronto-based company has been marketing a voice-over-Internet services... More...
Either Cisco wants some of Apple's press mania or they have vowed to give the company some competition. Not only do both companies have products named "iPhone" but now Cisco is reportedly taking on the... More...
Thanks to maash for posting this in BPN. Cisco Systems Inc. has owned the name "iPhone" since 2000 and today announced that it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court. Cisco obtained the trademark... More...
Cisco Systems announced on Jan. 4 that it has agreed to buy IronPort, a provider of messaging and Web security appliances, for approximately $830 million. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant reported that the deal... More...
Cisco is planning to issue security severity scores as part of its security advisories. The programme is designed to help users pick the vulnerabilities that require the most attention. Current severity ratings are generally limited... More...
LONDON--Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems' security technology group, has raised concerns that integrating Vista into a complex IT infrastructure could present problems. "Parts of Vista scare me," Gleichauf said at the... More...
Keeping the spirit of "coopetition" alive, Cisco Systems and Microsoft on Wednesday said they're delivering on a two-year-old promise to make their network-access security offerings interoperable. At The Security Standard conference in Boston this... More...