Posts Tagged with ‘cisco’

This morning Cisco has released results of an interesting study Compete conducted for Cisco to evaluate how Americans are influenced by online video and various social media tools when it comes to their political engagement. The results basically highlight the rapidly growing importance of visual networking in consuming news and information related to the presidential elections in 2008.
The study included Compete surveying 1,800 registered US voters to find out how they receive news and information about the upcoming elections. The [...]

Today Cisco has published results of a survey that the company conducted to see customers’ attitude towards different shopping and payment trends - both online and offline. Cisco surveyed more than 1,500 people to see their opinions on various factors in the changing commerce landscape and the results are definitely worth noting - both for real-life financial institutions like banks and for e-commerce companies.
The main result of the survey is that people in all age groups tend to increasingly trust [...]

Today Cisco is announcing a range of improvements to its online collaboration solutions that are now jointly named “Collaboration Portfolio”. The portfolio includes SaaS platform WebEx Connect, Unified Communications and TelePresence.
I believe that the most interesting part of this portfolio is the web 2.0 application platform WebEx Connect that will host both Cisco’s and third-parties’ applications and will integrate with existing IT infrastructures of business customers using the new platform. This puts Cisco in competition not only with Microsoft in [...]

Today Cisco has announced its intention to buy Jabber, Inc., the company behind the popular presence and messaging protocol that is used by many companies to power their instant messaging products, including Google in their GTalk as one of the most prominent example. The amount of the acquisition is not disclosed and the deal is scheduled to be completed by January.
The idea here is pretty simple - Cisco is planning to use Jabber to “extend the reach” of their existing [...]

Odds are if you are involved in the tech industry, you've attended a meeting remotely. And odds are, you've done so using the ubiquitous WebEx, owned by Cisco. However, for companies who are bootstrapping, or individuals (like freelancers), WebEx's prices can make it just out of reach. DimDim, which first launched as an alpha back in 2006, may step into that space, but that depends on your point of view.
DimDim has four products: DimDim Free, DimDim Pro, DimDim Enterprise, and [...]

Want to have VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) inside your webmail service? How about something to go along with your CRM software? Anywhere else? No problem. Ribbit will deliver on all fronts.
That’s the plan, anyhow. Ribbit, a startup in the business of providing a thoroughly adaptable VoIP platform for any and all Web telephony needs – corporate- or consumer-centric – has the desire to become a primary consultant for businesses big and small, as well as the pubic [...]

Recognize the name Cisco? Of course you do. It's the name of the company responsible for maintaining much of the telecommunications infrastructure for companies big and small in the US and elsewhere. It’s distributed fiber all across this here corn-fed land (a tired pun, I know), and established great numbers of switching stations keep those lines lit with activity. It’s even gotten into the business of making gadgets like phones and WiFi routers and such in recent years.
And now it’s [...]

Sometimes I feel like the official reporter of Internet TV leader Joost because their news always seems to gravitate in my direction. Today Joost announced former Cisco Systems executive and expert deal maker Mike Volpi as their CEO.
Volpi was the senior VP and General Manager of Cisco's routing and service provider group, and he helped acquire more than 70 companies for the Cisco system during his tenure there. Volpi will replace founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl and will assume the helm of Joost [...]

Cisco agrees to give WebEx several suitcases of crisp, clean, stackable Benjamins and suddenly yesterday’s news (figuratively speaking) of Microsoft’s purchase of Tellme for $800,000,000 starts to look insignificant. Not that we’d mind wading in a pool of that kind of green. Just, you know, big news was soon followed with much bigger news. An amusing transition over the course of a few hours. Anyway, on with the story.
WebEx, the productivity suite that we’ve all seen advertised in banners and squares [...]