Archive for the ‘Industry’ Category

Riverbed Ranked Number 21 Fastest Growing Company

Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it ranked number 21 on Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte LLP’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies...

February 25th, 2010 | Industry, Riverbed News | Read More

Cisco Launches 2nd I-Prize Global Contest

Cisco today announced the launch of the second I-Prize contest, an open global innovation competition in which entrepreneurs worldwide can collaborate and submit their proposals with the potential to be Cisco's next billion-dollar business idea. Following last year's competition, which drew nearly 2,500...

January 31st, 2010 | Industry | Read More

Cisco Among Top 3 Employers in Canada

Cisco Canada has ranked third out of 134 companies surveyed, in Hewitt Associates' annual ranking of Canada's best employers. The Hewitt study, in partnership with the Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine, recognizes the top employers in Canada based on employee responses. Cisco achieved the highest...

January 9th, 2010 | Careers, Industry | Read More

Cisco Showcases Mobility Portfolio During CES 2010

Cisco today announced today that it will demonstrate its mobility solution portfolio, using newly acquired technology from Starent Networks, with Verizon Wireless during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. With Starent, Cisco is a leader in LTE technology, which promises...

January 8th, 2010 | Industry, Wireless | Read More

Executive of the year – John Chambers

If you want a lesson in how to weather an economic downturn — even the catastrophic one of 2009 — ask John Chambers for a peek at his playbook. The Cisco Systems Inc. CEO operates his company like a basketball coach calling for the fast break at Internet speed. His ability to time market transitions,...

January 4th, 2010 | Industry | Read More

AT&T ends partnership with Tiger Woods

Telecom giant AT&T Inc. announced Thursday that it has ended its business relationship with Tiger Woods. "We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future, " said Fletcher Cook, AT&T spokesman, in an e-mailed statement. Woods had signed a multi-year sponsorship...

December 31st, 2009 | Industry | Read More

BlackBerry users hit by eight-hour outage

BlackBerry customers throughout North America were without e-mail and Internet services for more than eight hours after a widespread outage that lasted until early Wednesday. Customers began receiving e-mails again around 2:45 a.m. ET. Initial reports of outages came from BlackBerry around 6:30 p.m. BlackBerry...

December 23rd, 2009 | Industry | Read More

Major BlackBerry Outage in North America

According to reports from various sources, RIM is experiencing MAJOR outages in North America. This is affecting Blackberry Messenger, email, web browsing to name a few. So far no word from RIM on this issue. It all started with Blackberry Messenger service but later the outage expanded to email and...

December 22nd, 2009 | Industry | Read More

Cisco Celebrates Two Years of Globalisation Centre East

Cisco Globalisation Centre East celebrated its two year anniversary of ongoing innovation in technology offerings, new partnerships and collaborative efforts with communities, cities, countries and governments around the globe. Over the past couple of years Cisco has established several examples of public-private...

December 21st, 2009 | Industry | Read More

Cisco Acquires Starent Networks

Cisco today announced it has completed its acquisition of Starent Networks, a leading supplier of Internet Protocol (IP) based mobile infrastructure solutions targeting mobile and converged carriers. With the Mobile Internet at an inflection point as IP-enabled Smartphones and other connected mobile...

December 18th, 2009 | Industry | Read More