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Cisco Meraki Launches “Presence”, With Facebook Account Log-In To Wireless Networks
— Cisco Meraki has launched a new service called Presence that provides data about mobile behavior across location and automatic log-in to wireless hotspots using a person's Facebook account.
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Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware
— Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook
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Cisco jumps on gigabit Internet craze with new wireless offerings
— Summary: With AT&T and Google (among others) warming up for a gigabit Internet war, Cisco is jumping in the fray with some new products to support the speedy connections. — The words “gigabit Internet” …
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Video is the new audio, as videoconferencing contender Vidyo grows 68% and raises $17M to grow even faster
— “Our overall growth in billings was 68%,” Vidyo CEO Shofer Shapiro told me last week. “That's while our competitors were somwhere between flat and negative growth.”
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Tech Firms Push to Hire More Workers From Abroad
— SAN FRANCISCO — Vishal Sankhla, an Indian engineer, is among those at the center of a storm over how to fix the nation's immigration system. — Mr. Sankhla got a master's degree in electrical engineering nine years ago from the University …
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Cisco taps Microsoft's Cloud OS for new datacenter portfolio
— Summary: Cisco is launching new datacenters that revolve around Microsoft technologies to deliver go-to-market initiatives. — Cisco and Microsoft have teamed up on a series of new datacenter ventures designed to simplify cloud deployments.
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Network vendors launch open-source OpenDaylight Project to standardize SDN
— Cisco, Juniper,, Big Switch Networks, Nuage Networks, VMware and several other network hardware and software vendors are jumping into the open-source code-development pool with the establishment on Monday …
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Cisco to buy Ubiquisys for $310M in femtocell tech boost
— Summary: The networking giant is to snap up its fourth acquisition of the year with U.K.-based femtocell maker Ubiquisys, a maker of 3G and LTE small-cell technologies. — Zack Whittaker — Cisco this morning announced …
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Cisco to acquire cloud services management provider SolveDirect
— Apparently today is a good day to buy. Following acquisitions announcements by Yahoo and Oracle, Cisco is announcing that it has agreed to buy cloud services management business SolveDirect, the company said today.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).