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They announced this social media milestone on their blog, The Platform. They’ve also analyzed the 100,000 profiles and associated tweets to come up with a great infographic. According to Cisco, the most retweeted status points to CEO John Chambers’ tribute … Continue reading →

When I was more actively going to big trade shows and conferences, the star speaker was usually a meaty high-level executive (of the biggest sponsor) or other tech luminary. Occasionally, at the end of the event, there’d be a motivational … Continue reading →

In the mostly bland world of corporate blogging, we almost did a spit take with our espresso this morning while scanning Cisco’s “The Platform.” Mark Chandler, General Counsel, authored a post in which he challenged Hewlett Packard to allow its … Continue reading →

Over at “The Platform”, Cisco’s Dave Evans has posted a great infographic showing that communicating things—essentially embedded sensors —have already outstripped the number of communicating homo sapiens. That happened in 2010. By 2050 there will be 50 billion such devices—think … Continue reading →

Casa Mila, Barcelona/Wikimedia Australian telco rejects femtocell … Intel CEO talks wireless electric lamp … Cisco’s WiFi fail at MWC … Vodafone to avoid closed vertically-integrated systems … Android booth has awesome slide … Euro operators are over-regulated …  HTC Desire S runs … Continue reading →

One of the corporate blogs I review on occasion is Cisco’s The Platform. In a post published on Sunday, and in time for the press deluge coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco pre-announced its new “framework” … Continue reading →

Cisco’s marketing department has continued their cuddly product naming  with the announcement of umi (pronounced you-me) last week. It’s basically Skype or in Cisco-speak, “telepresense,” for regular folks. And by regular folks they mean TV-watchers with an Internet connection but … Continue reading →

As expected,  Avaya announced yesterday that its “chameleon” video device is in fact … a tablet computer. And not surprisingly it runs  Android OS (2.1 for the record). It is larger than Cisco’s previously announced Cius (11.6″ versus 7″). Both … Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Perhaps only a company of Cisco’s still considerable market heft can foist its recently revealed Cius (pronounced “see us”) tablet on the citizens of cubeland. Many of the tech bloggers are underwhelmed and ask the question, “Why?”. … Continue reading →

A federal jury in Texas decided in favor of closely held Commil USA in its patent infringement suit against Cisco. Commill USA owns a fixed mobile convergence patent that was developed by an Israeli tech company, also called Commil. The … Continue reading →