Mike Volpi bragged that Cisco stars would join Skype;

Cisco computer game lets you play CEO; Cisco blows away Q1 expectations Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by 3COM Comprehensive NAC Read this whitepaper on improving endpoint defense, control and visibility through integrated management and enforcement. Learn more Spotlight Story Mike Volpi bragged he could get Cisco's top stars to join Skype Brad Reese: In a fascinating development in the ongoing legal battle for Skype, copies of Mike Volpi's email messages that appeared within legal litigation exhibits show how he bragged to Index Venture partner Danny Rimer that he could steal Cisco's top technical stars and get them to join Skype. Read full story Related News: Cisco computer game lets you play CEO The Layer 8 blog: If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco. The company this week posted myPlanNet, a computer game that lets anyone be a broadband executive. Cisco blows away Q1 expectations The Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco this week posted first quarter results that far exceeded Wall Street, and its own, expectations. Sales for the first quarter ended Oct. 24, 2009, were $9 billion. Analysts queried by Thomson Reuters were expecting $8.74 billion. Cisco, EMC roll out joint venture The Cisco Subnet blog: The joint venture everyone's been waiting for for the past couple of months has finally arrived. Cisco and EMC have formed a joint venture to "accelerate" the products it develops under it new Virtual Computing Environment coalition with VMware. Cisco confident it can get Tandberg deal done The Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco executives this week expressed optimism that it will close the deal with videoconferencing leader Tandberg. Cisco's $3 billion offer is facing resistance from a block of shareholders owning 24% of the company. Can we block all IPv6 tunnels in our enterprise network? Eric Vyncke: A major IPv4-to-IPv6 transition technique is the use of tunnels; this is encapsulating IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets. Those tunnels can also be used within the enterprise network either on purpose (for example to traverse some legacy network devices not supporting IPv6) or not on purpose. Cisco shutters Cerent HQ in Petaluma, CA The Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco has closed the old Cerent headquarters in Petaluma, CA, effectively ceasing operations in that area. Cisco paid $6.9 billion for Cerent in 1999 -- Cisco's largest acquisition ever at the time. Winners of Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet contests We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways: the grand prize from Cisco Subnet of a free training course from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks: The Next-Generation WAN/MAN. From Cisco Subnet This is the Friday edition of Network World's Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Ethernet everywhere! Inside planes, trains, cars and spaceships, Ethernet is a morph master. Here's a look at some of Ethernet's cooler implementations. 7 tools to ease Windows 7 rollout These utilities help you plan, ensure app compatibility and manage images. 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