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Analyst Ashok Kumar says the business is about to get rocked by a technology shift, but too few companies are paying attention to the writing on the wall.
Like Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies and others, Cisco has been battered financially by the economic slowdown and slower spending by carriers and service providers. To woo customers, Cisco and its rivals have begun cutting prices on their products, but the companies also are touting new technology aimed at helping service providers generate new revenue.
It's a simple problem: A great company miscalculated demand in a baffling economy. That's essentially all Cisco's US$2.69 billion loss for its fiscal third quarter is about. Or is it?
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video Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promises a better PeopleSoft.
What technologies have missed the mark this past year?
In recent months, wireless networks have received a boost as products based on the 802.11g standard--capable of 54Mbps--have come into the mainstream. Are you ready for fast wireless?
Where is the IT industry spending its marketing dollars to grab your attention? In this CeBIT preview, ZDNet Australia asks if trade shows are really worth it.
802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at Messagelabs, said the company's latest research indicates that Australian spam levels are well below the global average. The bad news is that social networking sites, such as MySpace, are helping phishers create more targeted attacks.
Davis Thomason, senior director of technical services at Sourcefire, describes Enterprise Threat Management (ETM), which combines IPS, vulnerability assessments, network behaviour analysis and network admission control, to create a pro-active defence system.
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Peter Williams, CTO of IBM's Big Green Innovations, discusses the role of technology in the green movement. He addresses everything from new virtualisation systems to new sensor networks that will help monitor climate change.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km.
Vaho Rebasoo, CTO for Computers and Network Operations at Boeing, talks about the new technologies that will improve aircraft and aerospace production, as well as innovative strategies such as RFID.
High-powered panelists discuss the evolution of content delivery in the age of convergence and the empowered consumer at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller, Google co-founder Larry Page and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
In recent months, wireless networks have received a boost as products based on the 802.11g standard--capable of 54Mbps--have come into the mainstream. Are you ready for fast wireless?
Our latest roundup of data projectors for the boardroom includes projectors with wired and wireless networking, memory card slots, and even built-in browsers.
802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
NComputing's X300 provides a cost-effective way to hang up to six terminals off a single desktop PC using low-power, secure, easy to administer and quiet access terminals. It's not for power users, but is well suited to schools, business workgroups, libraries and internet cafes.
History of British PCs
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