Cisco Systems News

Cisco Systems, which hopes to grab a share of the sports industry business by providing network technology to stadiums, has signed up to be a sponsor of the 2012 Olympics.

A spokeswoman for Cisco Systems said this afternoon that a stock analyst's report wrongly implied that the company had started a new wave of layoffs.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is making another major foray into health information technology this time in tandem with networking equipment giant Cisco Systems.

Meltdown 101: Why do earnings warnings matter? Digg it TIM PARADIS AP Business Writer= NEW YORK A A A' It's report card season on Wall Street and investors are bracing for bad news.

While most of the tech world was abuzz today with the announcement of Googlea s Chrome OS , another piece of interesting news slipped through the cracks: Cisco announced that Ned Hooper is being promoted to chief strategy officer.

Media companies, take heart: Cisco Systems Inc. says it's coming to the rescue. Cisco says the Eos platform provides a way for media to recapture control of their content management, Internet audience development, and media distribution from the likes of Apple Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday said it promoted Ned Hooper to chief strategy officer to shape its investments in new markets and plan its acquisitions.

For Cisco, it's not a Windows-only world. July 6, 2009 By Sean Michael Kerner : What is the operating system of the cloud? Linux vendor Red Hat would like it to be Linux.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Armed with a slew of consumer acquisitions ranging from Linksys to Scientific-Atlanta and Pure Digital , Cisco Systems is poised to build a template for what it calls the CE company, Version 2.0." That's something Sony Corp.

At its user conference in San Francisco last week, Cisco Systems boasted about the 30 new businesses it's developing.

Cisco Systems, facing waning demand for networking equipment from businesses, is working with phone and cable carriers on products and services that let consumers hold video conferences through their televisions.

Index Ventures today announced that Mike Volpi, a renowned technology industry veteran, joined the firm as a partner.

Cisco is reportedly interested in using its WebEx collaboration platform to challenge Microsoft Office.

Stock markets rewarded companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Cisco who were brave enough to make acquisitions in the months after Lehman Brothers' collapse, a study released on Monday showed.

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Simon Avery Toronto - Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Friday, Jul. 03, 2009 07:36PM EDT I t's a paradox: The world is rushing to embrace mobile communications, but some of the biggest suppliers of telecommunications equipment are struggling to stay ahead.

Companies that sell video-on-demand systems and software have cranked up efforts to deliver products for high-capacity "RS-DVR" services, after the Supreme Court this week declined to review a ruling that Cablevision Systems' network-based digital video recorder complies with copyright laws.

Commack, NY &#151 Six weeks to the day after being bought by Cisco Systems for $590 million in what the New York Times called a head scratcher of an acquisition , Pure Digital announced the Flip HD , the latest chapter in its runaway digital camcorder success story.

D' 1:51 PM EDT Mon. Jun. 29, 2009 Resembling more a doctorate dissertation than an IT certification, Cisco Systems on Monday unveiled its highest-level networking certification yet, the Cisco Certified Architect.

True Internet is paving the way for next-generation cloud services, starting with the deployment of the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch, a robust platform that will help True Internet transform the delivery of consumer and business applications to any place and device.