Category: IT - Published: August 20, 2007
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is best known for selling routers and switches to telecoms companies, but its strongest sales growth these days comes from an area that seldom gets much attention: hospitals.
Cisco has sold routers and switches to hospitals and insurance companies for years, but in 2005 […]
Category: IT - Published: May 29, 2007
The BroadWare deal, while small in dollars, highlights the rising demand for companies that make video surveillance gear. Driving that trend is the confluence of homeland security concerns in the U.S. and the spread of sophisticated security networks based on Internet technologies.
In 2006, for example, following the lead of London and other cities around the […]
Category: IT - Published: April 18, 2007
The two firms ended a fiery dispute over the “iPhone” trademark back in February, avoiding legal proceedings with out-of-court settlement that granted each company the right to use the name on its products. As part of the agreement, Cisco and Apple also agreed to investigate opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, and consumer […]
Category: Internet and Network - Published: March 31, 2007
Cisco has developed a set of small smart robots, which can act as wireless communications relays, that sense when a mobile user is moving out of service range, and can follow the user to maintain connectivity.
Cisco talked about the prototype box-shaped robots at this week’s Military Technologies Conference in Boston. According to Dave Buster, product […]