Cisco: Consumer business to be worth $10 billion in 5 years Cisco wants you to think of its brand when you think consumer electronics. Going against big guns like Apple and Sonos it has been busy pre-briefing journalists about its push into the consumer electronics space, which Cisco CEO John Chambers, said would be worth $10 billion to Cisco in 5 years. More top stories from CES Network World's offical CES blog What we want to see at CES 2009 HDTV and mobile gear to steal spotlight Look for high speed, low energy in Bluetooth products Consumer electronics to stay ahead in recession Companies are overstating green claims, consumers say Asus unveils netbook with touchscreen that swivels LG Display on verge of launching 15-inch OLED 8 Microsoft Research projects that could make you say wow The auto-updating Digital Postcard, the sign language Shake2Talk phone are two, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett. Three candidates pass Cisco's network design beta exam With the pass rate for the CCDE lab beta being 7.7% (lower than the 26% pass rate that has been reported for the CCIE lab), does this signify that the exam was too hard, or is Cisco happy to maintain the high bar for its expert level certification? Plus: Holy crap: I passed the CCDE! FBI/DOJ warns of economic cybergeddon A couple of speeches this week by FBI and Department of Justice executives are warning that if law enforcement and others connected with keeping the Internet a secure and safe place to do business and socialize the world could be headed toward a cyber-based economic meltdown -- cybergeddon. Data breaches rose sharply in 2008, says study More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Consortium tackles cloud computing standards The Open Cloud Consortium is a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically... Researchers applying P2P to traffic control University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on... Windows 7 and enterprise IT: a love match IT will want it, XP users will want it and even many Linux users will want it, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett. Today on Microsoft Subnet Microsoft gains a coup over Google with a Verizon mobile search deal expected to be announced at CES; Plus, videos, podcasts, contests, bloggers and more. Today on Cisco Subnet China CCIE count grows 11 times more than the U.S.; Cisco changes its docs to reflect that it does support 3rd party VPNs; Who's a firm believer of FCoE now?; Blogger Dennis Hartmann explains the RFC Type of Service field and how it's used. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here. |
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