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Cisco Cius tablet is dead

Mark Raby, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Cisco's attempt at entering the massively competitive tablet market has come to a quiet end. The company's Cius product has been set off to greener pastures without even making a serious dent in the industry. It was meant to be the leader in enterprise-focused tablets. But as you may already know, the iPad has kind of taken that title, and it took it before the Cius even had a chance to shine. It's the same reason the Blackberry Playbook never got a chance to spread its wings. Read The Full Story

Cisco blasts EC over Microsoft Skype openness

Chris Davies, Feb 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Cisco has taken time out from axing unpopular and overpriced teleconferencing systems to complain about Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, challenging the EC with demands for greater priority for open video standards. Although Cisco doesn't oppose the acquisition, video conferencing chief Marthin De Beer wrote on the company's official blog, it does believe the European Commission shirked on insisting Microsoft must adopt open standards that won't prevent rival services from intercommunicating. Read The Full Story

Cisco kills Umi over-priced video conferencing system

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [1]

Cisco has axed its Umi video-conferencing system, finally recognizing that a $600 1080p telepresence setup is unlikely to find much traction among home users. "[We] decided to no longer sell Cisco Umi hardware as a consumer offering" the company confirmed to Business Insider, though those who picked up the three-piece video kit will still be able to use it. Read The Full Story

Linksys WES610N Wireless-N Bridge gets your HDTV, console & STB online

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

Linksys by Cisco has outed its latest entertainment bridge, the WES610N Wireless-N Bridge, intended to hook up your ethernet-port toting HDTV, cable and other STBs, and consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 to your WiFi network. The WES610N offers a choice of 2.3GHz or 5GHz wireless (though not simultaneously) and has four 10/100 ethernet ports. Read The Full Story

Cisco axes 6,500 staff as Flip dump fails to turn share-slide

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

Cisco may be madly enthusiastic about its Cius tablet, but investors aren't so keen, and so the company has has officially confirmed plans to axe 6,500 jobs in an attempt to save $1bn every year. According to a recent SEC filing, Cisco is cutting 9-percent of its workforce after attempts to stem the flow of cash losses by shutting down the Flip camcorder business failed to convince shareholders that the company was taking its core networking business seriously. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up : July 15, 2011

Chris Burns, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

There's a terrifying robot smashing about, and it's coming to yours neighborhood! It's no Michael Jackson apparatus, but you'll certainly be doing the Thriller when you see what we're talking about. Then there's an announcement by the NYC police that they're about to get a bit more electric, Cisco's pairing with Verizon is about to get a whole lot speedier, and SOMEone had the idea to go snooping around Google's code again, this time discovering no less than a full gaming experience on the horizon! Also don't think that Spotify has gone away, it's just begun - a full ecosystem coming up! Read The Full Story

Verizon pairs Cisco Cius business tablet with 4G LTE

Chris Davies, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Cisco's Cius Android tablet still hasn't actually made it to market - last we heard, July 31 was the big day - but already the enterprise-friendly company is talking about alternative versions. Latest to get the nod is a Verizon 4G model that will use the carrier's LTE network, though bizarrely it won't do so via an integrated 4G modem. Instead, business users wanting their share of LTE speeds will have to carry a separate mobile hotspot with them too. Read The Full Story

Cisco Cius Android Tablet Priced, Enterprise Apps

Rue Liu, Jun 29th 2011 Discuss [5]

Cisco is getting ready to release their very first Android tablet. But instead of attempting suicide by going head to head with the juggernaut that is the Apple iPad, Cisco has decided to stick to the enterprise crowd. The Cisco Cius tablet will take on a form factor optimized for voice and video collaboration and will get access to custom enterprise apps. Read The Full Story

30-day video limit as FlipShare service phase out begins

Shane McGlaun, May 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

It was more than a little shocking to many in the tech world when Cisco abruptly killed the Flip line of small and portable camcorders that were traditionally some of the most popular on the market. It turns out that Cisco was in a bad way with sagging profits, and the finger was pointed squarely at the company sticking its fingers into too many honey pots in the tech world and the Flip line was the first to get the axe. Read The Full Story

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SG Comics Presents: Cisco Flip Meeting

Rue Liu, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [9]

Last week Cisco announced that it was shutting down its Flip video camera business that it bought just two years ago from Pure Digital for $590 million dollars. It was their bid to tackle the consumer market, a segment that is apparently beyond their expertise. There are many reasons behind their decision.

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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – April 17, 2011

Rue Liu, Apr 17th 2011 Discuss [11]

For this week’s tech news roundup video, we highlight the launch of the HTC Sensation smartphone and their HTC Sense 3.0 UI along with several news items involving Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7 Mango update. Continue after the jump for the video and the full list.

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FlipLive dead as Cisco pulls plug on Flip line

Shane McGlaun, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

This week Cisco announced that it was killing off the Flip line of camcorders. You might recall that last July we first caught wind of a very cool sounding new Flip camcorder that was being developed that packed in WiFi to allow the camera to stream your video live. Sadly, the death of the Flip brand means that camera - the FlipLive - will never come to be. Read The Full Story