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Smartphones Meet Remote Control in the Cloud: The Channel Opportunity
At a recent family function, I noticed one of my cousins at one point fiddling with his smartphone, looking as if he was about to devour the display. Ever the helpful relative, I wasted no time schooling him on the etiquette of ignoring the people around you to mess with your smartphone. We both laughed…
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Cisco Upgrades Catalyst Series of Switches
Cisco Systems is updating the Catalyst 6500 Series of switches with new products and new features designed to improve performance in an market that is growing ever more competitive. This update is not just limited to a hardware refresh, but it includes more than 200 software updates. As the “workhorse family” of switches that stretches…
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VMware Launches vSphere 5
SAN FRANCISCO – A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that "most people just want IT infrastructure to go away." So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite…
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Cisco’s Chambers Keynote Foreshadows Restructuring
While Cisco Systems continues to innovate, it has become too complex and needs to become more streamlined and easier to work with, CEO John Chambers said in his opening keynote at the Cisco Live show in Las Vegas. As a result, Chambers acknowledged the company will undergo a restructuring although he didn t disclose any…
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Takes Center Stage
Microsoft executives used the second day of the company s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles to offer a few glimpses of upcoming Windows Phones. Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE, and Samsung had manufactured the devices on display for part of the July 12 keynote speeches, all of them embracing a thin-and-light design style that will apparently…
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Cisco Job Cuts Could Total 5K in August
Cisco Systems may cut as many as 5,000 jobs in August, the latest significant move as the networking giant looks to reorganize its business and improve its bottom line, according to market research firm Gleacher & Co. In a research note July 11, Gleacher analyst Brian Marshall said the job cuts could rival the 8,000…