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Cisco to Buy Memory IP Maker Memoir Systems

Cisco Systems is buying Memoir Systems to bring faster and more affordable memory technologies to the ASICs the networking vendor uses in its switches.According...

Blue Jeans Tool Measures Video Conferencing Use, Performance

Blue Jeans Network is offering IT administrators a tool designed to give them better insights into how their cloud-based collaboration service is being used.Blue...

Salesforce’s Benioff To Step Down From Cisco Board

Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will leave Cisco Systems' board of directors in November, stepping down two years after being appointed to the...

AT&T to Build UC Platform for Shell

AT&T over the next five years will migrate 150,000 employees at Shell onto a new unified communications platform in a deal that the two...

Brocade Bolsters NFV Platform With Vistapointe Buy

Brocade officials are hoping to give their network operator customers that are adopting network-functions virtualization greater visibility into their architectures with the acquisition of...

Fuze Brings Cloud Video Service to Meeting Rooms

Fuze in April changed its name from Fuzebox to better reflect what officials said was the company's role in the consumerization of video collaboration.Now...

Savant Raises $90 Million for Connected Home Efforts

A Cape Cod-based company that makes connected home and control hardware and software for businesses and luxury homes now has another $90 million to...

Broadcom Looks to Double WiFi Performance in Smartphones, Tablets

Broadcom is looking to double the WiFi performance of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets with a new chip that combines powerful 802.11ac and...

Intel Unveils 8-Core Desktop Chip for Gamers, Enthusiasts

Intel officials on Aug. 29 launched a powerful eight-core desktop processor that comes with 20MB of cache and speeds of up to 3.0GHz, with...

Video Conferencing Space Continues Transformation, IDC Says

The video conferencing market continues to be a bad-news, good-news situation for vendors, according to analysts with IDC.The trend in revenues from video conferencing...