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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

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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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

Why Cisco Shut Down the Flip Business

Ben Bajarin, Apr 13th 2011 Discuss [11]

Cisco's shutting down of their Flip business after only two years says not just a great deal about Cisco but about consumer markets as a whole. Primarily that they are very hard to succeed in and should be entered only with adequate strategies. Cisco had primarily acquired Flip and the Pure Digital team in order to gain a jump start to their consumer business strategy. Read The Full Story

Flip Video offers Flip Video Action Tripod

Shane McGlaun, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Flip has been making its awesome little camcorders for a long time now including the Ultra HD, MinoHD, and the Slide HD. The Flip camcorders are cheap and that low price makes them some of the most popular camcorders on the market today. Flip has a new accessory for its camcorder line that has debuted. Read The Full Story

freedomMIC Bluetooth Mic for iPhone 4 and Flip Video Hands-On

Dylan Bailey, Jan 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

As consumer camcorders and video recording devices become smaller and smaller, users are using them more for capturing the special moments of their lives. However, one problem with this using a smaller device for recording is that the audio quality isn't optimal. Solving this problem, Scosche has launched a series of Bluetooth enabled external microphones for use with the iPhone 4, iPod touch and a separate device for the Flip UltraHD 2. Read The Full Story

Scosche freedomMIC Bluetooth microphone for Flip camcorders

Chris Davies, Sep 21st 2010 Discuss [1]

The next accessory intended to work with Flip Video's new FlipPort socket has arrived, and it's a Bluetooth lavaliere microphone from Scosche. Like the Blue Microphones Mikey, the Scosche freedomMIC snaps onto the bottom of the Flip UltraHD or MiniHD, but rather than integrating the microphone into the adapter itself, you get a small clip-on microphone that connects wirelessly. Read The Full Story

iGo Portable Pico-Projector for Flip drops October for $349

Chris Davies, Sep 20th 2010 Discuss [2]

Flip Video's other notable partnership in the new Designed for Flip accessory program is iGo, who have put together a pico-projector for the company's UltraHD and MinoHD camcorders. Unlike the Mikey for Flip, which physically snaps onto the bottom of your Flip, the iGo Portable Projector uses an adapter cable; it also has regular A/V, composite video, stereo audio, mini HDMI, VGA and microUSB inputs. Read The Full Story

Blue Microphones Mikey for Flip: $69 but not here until Jan 2011

Chris Davies, Sep 20th 2010 Discuss [9]

Blue Microphones have been showing off their new Mikey for Flip model, especially designed to hook up to the FlipPort accessory connector found on the new UltraHD and MinoHD models. The stubby little block snaps onto the bottom of the pocket camcorder and offers stereo audio recording using Blue's condenser microphone capsules. Read The Full Story

Flip Video UltraHD and MinoHD get refreshed; new accessory program includes snap-on Pico

Chris Davies, Sep 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

We've seen quite a few companies looking to steal Flip's crown for point-and-shoot camcorders - JVC's PICSIO models, for instance, or the HP V5020u - but Cisco aren't willing to sit back and watch that happen. A new range of Flip Video cameras has been launched, the UltraHD 8GB and 4GB, and the MinoHD 8GB and 4GB, each capable of 720p 60fps recording. Read The Full Story

Flip SlideHD gets official: $280 for touchscreen 720p camcorder

Chris Davies, Apr 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

After having been leaked, discussed and even sold early, the Flip SlideHD camcorder is finally official. Priced at $279.99, the SlideHD's most distinctive feature is its sliding, tilting 3-inch touchscreen, but it can also record up to four hours of 1280 x 720 30fps 8.8Mbps video to its 16GB of integrated storage. Read The Full Story