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• @ CES: Recession? What Recession? Game Industry Execs Believe Ad Dollars Will Keep Flowing In '09

  Content Next - 2009-01-07

  In the wake of the financial meltdown, analysts slashed their 2009 forecasts for ad spending on "experimental" mediums—including campaigns in and around video games. But execs at the GamePower Conference @ CES said they're actually banking on an increase in ad spending this year, and here's their argument: —Gamers...

  Tags: Advertisement, Recession, Gamer, Games, Personal Technology, Advertising, Companies, Entertainment, Gaming, Events, Conferences, CES 2009, Tameka Kee, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Cisco Says it Is Now a Consumer Company

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-07

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Cisco CSCO has decided to be a player in the consumer electronics business. Cisco is a company that tends to be associated with enterprise networking; at their heart it remains a manufacturer of big honking routers. But over the last few years, the company...

  Tags: Networking, Eric Savitz, Cisco Systems Inc.

• Cisco Invests in Enterprise Email

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-05

  Erick Schonfeld submits: Smarter-email startup Xobni has raised $7 million in a B round of financing from Cisco Systems CSCO and existing investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Atomico. Three of the four existing investors increased their ownership stakes in the company. But Cisco led the...

  Tags: Networking, Erick Schonfeld, Cisco Systems Inc.

• Should Companies Be Worrying About Saving the Planet or Saving Themselves

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-22

  Joel West submits: When running a company like a household or a country, it’s important to distinguish between must-haves and nice-to-haves. The latter includes a lot of charitable activities, work in the community, parties, little morale-building perks, as well as many other things that help a firm with its...

  Tags: US Market, Software, Networking, Joel West, Cisco Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

• Tech Legal Week: Apple, AT&T, and iPhones; FSF Sues Cisco; Yahoo Severance; More

  BNET - 2008-12-14

  Apple and AT&T ask a New York court to dismiss one of the lawsuits over iPhone 3G performance; Psystar tries shifting tactics in its countersuit against Apple's copyright infringement action; Yahoo changes executive severance plan as part of ending a shareholder lawsuit; Intel fights a fine from the Korean Fair...

  Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Antitrust, Free Software Foundation, Yahoo! Inc., Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Law, Business Operations, Erik Sherman

• Alcatel-Lucent's Big Layoffs: Does It Get Web 2.0?

  BNET - 2008-12-12

  Alcatel-Lucent on Friday unveiled its latest restructuring plan complete with layoffs and a rip off of Cisco's spiel about Web 2.0 technologies. The news out of Alcatel-Lucent was boilerplate stuff these days–it will be news when a company actually hires someone. Alcatel-Lucent sees the market for telecom...

  Tags: Web, Layoff, Lucent Technologies Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Alcatel, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

• Mobile Content Bits: UK's Telegraph On Android, BBC On Nokia, NI Relaunches The Sun

  Content Next - 2008-12-10

  -- Telegraph.co.uk: The news site has updated its Android app to add video. First of the paper's vidcasts to be pushed over T-Mobile's G1 is finance roundup Business Bullet. The video only uses half of the screen and doesn't work in landscape mode, however. Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) has extended...

  Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Internet Radio, British Broadcasting Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Robert Andrews, Cisco Systems Inc.

• Cisco's Newly Launched Network Based Media Processing Platform for Video

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-08

  Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday, Cisco CSCO announced a new media processing platform that provides media conversion, real-time post production, editing, formatting, and network distribution capabilities for formatting video and rich media on any device. The first product now offered for this new platform is dubbed the Cisco Media Experience...

  Tags: Networking, Dan Rayburn, Cisco Systems Inc.

• Tech Legal Week: Qualcomm, Broadcom, Apple, Yahoo, AA, Cisco, AMD, Intel, More

  BNET - 2008-12-08

  Court upholds ruling that Qualcomm withheld patent info from standards body, but says comapny can still enforce its patents; Yahoo countersues American Airlines over charge that allowing others to buy search placement based on the comapny's name is trademark infringement; Hawaiian Telecom files for bankruptcy; ITC rules against Tessera in...

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Patent, Broadcom Corp., Antitrust, Digital-rights Management, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Corporate Law, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Erik Sherman

• Google, Cisco, Other Tech Titans Call for National Broadband Strategy

  BNET - 2008-12-03

  It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

  Tags: Google Inc., Network, Broadband, Cisco Systems Inc., American, Sam Diaz, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking

• Acme Packet Inc Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-01

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Paul Silverstein - Credit Suisse. Paul Silverstein - Credit Suisse I guess the most obvious question would be Cisco last night, Sonus this morning, the world’s collapsing around us; you guys put up pretty solid numbers. Andy,...

  Tags: Credit Suisse First Boston, Sonus Networks, Call Transcript, Earnings, Cisco Systems Inc., Freeze, Roi/Tco, Business Services, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Seeking Alpha, Acme Packet

• Why Should Companies Pay Dividends?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-23

  Dobromir Stoyanov submits: In theory it makes sense for companies to reinvest all of their earnings straight back into the business, compounding the growth rate of the enterprise to achieve a higher asset base. If a company can put their earnings to good use, there is no reason for them...

  Tags: US Market, Dobromir Stoyanov, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Cisco's 2008 Shareholder Meeting: More Spontaneity Needed

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-20

  Matthew Rafat submits: Cisco's CSCO annual shareholder meeting was held on November 13, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The meeting was open to all--Cisco did not check to see if anyone was actually a shareholder. The food spread was above average--OJ, cranberry juice, bagels, fruit, and Starbucks...

  Tags: Shareholder, Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Matthew Rafat, Networking

• Cisco Systems Now Relying on EZchip

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-19

  Brian Coleman submits: Last week, Cisco CSCO unveiled its new ASR 9000 edge router. The new product, with an advertised capacity of 400 gig per slot and system capacity of 6.4 terabytes has six times the capacity of competing products from Juniper JNPR(MX-series), Alcatel-Lucent ALU (7750) and Ericsson ERIC...

  Tags: Router, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Brian Coleman, ASR 9000, Corporate Communications, Routers & Switches, Networking, Marketing

• Industrial Production: Tech Could Be Worse

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-18

  Trade Radar Operator submits: The Federal Reserve just released the Industrial Production numbers for October. The headline number, a 1.3% gain, was unexpectedly good due to the resumption of refining and manufacturing activities in the Gulf region after hurricanes Gustav and Hanna. But what about tech?Below we show a...

  Tags: Seeking Alpha, Manufacturing, Productivity, Semiconductors, Hardware, Trade Radar Operator, Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., US Market

• ADTRAN: Living - And Growing - in Cisco's Shadow?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-17

  Joe Panettieri The VAR Guy submits: Somewhere between Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO and disruptive startups like Digium, there is a wasteland of networking companies that tried and failed to compete against Cisco. Still, a few nimble firms have carved out solid networking niches for themselves. I will spend November...

  Tags: ADTRAN, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Networking, Joe Panettieri, Adtran Inc.

• 3Com: Back on Sale

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-09

  Jeremy Richards submits: After hitting a high of $2.85 this week, 3Com COMS pulled back over 20%, mostly on Cisco CSCO-related pessimism. But, 3Com sees no slowing on its earnings and cash flow. In fact, 3Com has beat analyst estimates the last 4 consecutive quarters by an average of 95%!...

  Tags: 3Com Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Jeremy Richards, Networking

• Networking Stocks: Cisco and Juniper

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-07

  Sramana Mitra submits: It’s been a year since Cisco first warned about a slowdown in U.S. technology spending. Now, as it releases its Q109 results, the company says the slowdown has spread to Europe, emerging countries and Asia. In this post, we will look at the performances of Cisco...

  Tags: Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Sramana Mitra, Networking

• Cisco: 'Our Markets Will Recover'

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-06

  After a positively chilling fiscal second-quarter forecast from Cisco Systems CSCO Wednesday evening, I spoke with Jonathan Chadwick, Cisco’s Senior Vice President for Finance. To recap, during Cisco’s conference call with analysts see earnings call transcript following its fiscal first quarter announcement Wednesday evening, the company projected sales to decline...

  Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Tiernan Ray, Networking

• Cisco: The Alpha Male of Tech Stocks Reports Earnings

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-06

  Ryan Barnes submits: Cisco CSCO has long been one of the best barometers for corporate spending levels, small business growth, bandwidth growth, and the technology sector as a whole. The company also has an almost 50/50 split between domestic and international revenues, so its quarterly reports and guidance also ping...

  Tags: Stock, Small Business, Earnings, Cisco Systems Inc., Seeking Alpha, Ryan Barnes, Networking

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