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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Does Cisco get consumers?

Cisco gears up for expected flood of mobile data | Two new Web standards could change VoIP, mobile video chats, Cisco engineer says

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Does Cisco get consumers?
Business down 15% from last year, chief departs as Cisco overshoots "lower value" market with premium architectural pitchThe consumer market doesn't seem too hard to figure out: give us cool gadgets that can do useful, practical things - that's things with an 's' - at a reasonable price and we'll buy it. Some of those things include data (e-mail and text), voice and video. Maybe a flashlight and a currency converter too, or a tip calculator for lunch and dinner. In fact, data, voice and video should be standard features... Read More


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Cisco gears up for expected flood of mobile data
Cisco Systems will make a three-pronged attack at Mobile World Congress this week on what it sees as an impending flood of mobile data, especially video, by extending its current product lines with tools for better content delivery. Read More

Two new Web standards could change VoIP, mobile video chats, Cisco engineer says
HTML5 to be hot for mobile phone video chats and VIPR could create interoperable enterprise VoIP, videoconferencing VIPR is a protocol that lets people use all of their fancy VoIP features, including videoconferencing, when calling someone outside their own company, over a regular phone line. It has been submitted as an IETF standard. In the video below, Dr. Cullen Jennings, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, Cisco, has offered an update on where it stands. Read More


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Using BPM and Business Analytics Together
How do organizations become agile enough to proactively respond to all this change? They require processes, analytics and structures that give them real-time situational awareness into occurrences both inside and outside the organization. Read now!

Stolen US military IDs ideal cover for army of online dating scammers
Fraudsters use stolen military IDs, online dating services to steal moneyIt's a new twist on an old scam. The Army Times newspaper today details the growing trend of fraudsters stealing the identities of US Army soldiers from social network sites and then using that information to set up false profiles on Internet dating sites. The profiles are uses to dupe prospective dates out of their money. But there are other consequences too. Read More

Getting Started Part 5: Your Third Option for CLI: Dynamips
A Free Option to Build CLI SkillsImagine a lab pod with 4-5 routers, connected with serial links, Frame Relay, and Ethernet. It has PCs for testing with ping and traceroute. Now think of the cost: $0.00. And it takes no more electricity, and makes non more noise, than running your PC or Mac. Welcome to world of Dynamips, the third leg of the choice of how to get experience with Cisco's Command Line Interface (CLI) for CCNA. Today... Read More


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The ultimate in man v. machine moments
As IBM's Watson steps into the Jeopardy! ring it takes a lot of history with itAs IBM's Watson computer digs in for its competition on Jeopardy!, this week, we are reminded that this is the first in a long series of classic man v. machine moments. Here we have a look at some of the famous real and not so real man v. machine action. Read More

Hot products from RSA 2011
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Tech conference bloopers: 7 stories of snafus and slipups
Onstage falls, wardrobe malfunctions, and romantic disasters -- cue our real-life blooper reel from tech conferences around the world Read More



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