Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Cisco Systems said a privacy policy for the Cisco Connect Cloud service that alarmed some customers was a mistake and has been removed. The cloud service,which among other things allows users of some Wi-Fi home routers to manage their ...
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Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy with a ...
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Anyfi Networks claims its software is the best option to take your home Wi-Fi with you on the go. The Swedish firm formed in 2006 with the goal of using existing Wi-Fi networks for public use,instead of investing more money into building ...
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A Cisco Linksys router update which connected customers' routers to its Connect Cloud service without their knowledge and the company's licensing terms around user data has recharged privacy and security concerns surrounding cloud services. ...
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TUCKER, GA, July 09, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Utility, Inc. has released AVaiL version 4.2.0.0, which adds Geofence Reporting and Search enhancements for Vehicles, Devices and Assets. AVaiL is the secure command-and-control software as a ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has started volume production of several RF solutions supporting Broadcom 5G WiFi (IEEE 802.11ac) chips, including ...
Public Wi-Fi is beginning to find its way into every corner of the UK. It is no longer the domain of the American-style coffee shop, with pubs, retailers and even theme parks offering their own connections. However, this is not enough for ...
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More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
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Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
It really was apples-to-apples. The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical ...
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In the release notes to Version 3.5.6 of the Linux kernel, maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman warned users that there would likely be only one more version of that branch of the kernel, and that users should get ready to move to the 3.6 branch ...
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Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it was verifying claims that its routers contained critical vulnerabilities, after security researchers disclosed alleged problems last weekend. "We are aware of the media reports on security ...
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Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. But what's on paper and what happens in the real world are ...
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Google announced on Thursday what the company terms the "biggest ever update" to its popular and controversial Street View map imagery Web-based service. Google has doubled the number of Street View special collections and has updated ...
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