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Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending to Grow, Despite Japan Earthquake

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 30, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

The earthquake in Japan isn’t having as much of an impact on worldwide IT spending as expected, the market research firm Gartner says. Growth, it says, will be healthy.

Second-Edition iPad–Worth the Wait?

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 5, 2011 at 2:36 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on the second edition iPad, printer sharing and freeing up hard-drive space on a Mac.

Meet Lew Tucker, Cisco's Mr. Cloud

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm PT

Cisco Systems is serious about cloud computing. If today’s news about its strategic alliance with BMC Software doesn’t make that clear, talking with Lew Tucker, Cisco’s CTO for Cloud Computing certainly will.

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IBM Offers Faster Chips, Thanks to the Memory

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 8, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

Chip makers use many techniques to make their products do more while using less energy. IBM is preparing to share more of its tricks, particularly an unusual type of built-in memory it had previously limited to Big Blue’s own computers.

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Motorola's Suit Poses Challenge for Huawei's Success

Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 22, 2010 at 11:07 am PT

Motorola Inc.’s lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. alleging a plot to steal the U.S. company’s trade secrets could complicate years of largely successful efforts by the Chinese telecommunications-equipment giant to demonstrate itself as an innovator in the industry.

No Harm, Big Foul: Google Intercepted Passwords and Email Extracts

John Paczkowski in News on June 21, 2010 at 7:31 am PT

Google’s troubles over the inadvertent collection of user data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by its Street View cars are mounting. According to a preliminary analysis by the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty, the payload data fragments Google intercepted and stored included “data that are normally covered by…banking and medical privacy rules.”

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Cisco Steps up Entertainment Efforts

Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 13, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

Cisco Systems on Wednesday held a news conference with Warner Music to promote software to create and manage Web sites, one of nearly 30 new businesses the tech-equipment maker is getting into that it says has the potential to someday reach $1 billion in revenue.

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Cisco Diversifies Again as Chambers Discusses Rivals

Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2009 at 4:49 am PT

Cisco on Monday announced an initiative to sell high-tech gear to utilities, a market the company says could be a $20 billion-a-year market by 2014. Political junkies may have heard the term “smart grid,” which is one of the areas that the Obama administration has targeted with its stimulus package. The government is committing billions to facilitate building a next-generation electrical grid that’s more energy efficient.

Cisco to Rivals: Tonight You Sleep in Hell!

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

Cisco has finally crossed the Rubicon. Long a partner to the big server makers, the networking equipment giant today became a competitor, announcing an aggressive push into the server market. No longer content to peddle switches and routers alone, Cisco is now selling a full-blown data center solution.

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CES: Cisco Says It Is Now a Consumer Company

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on January 7, 2009 at 11:49 am PT

Cisco has decided to be a player in the consumer electronics business. Cisco is a company that tends to be associated with enterprise networking–at its heart it remains a manufacturer of big honking routers. But over the last few years, the company has made a concerted effort to get into the consumer business.