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Polycom to Cut 6 Percent of Its Workforce

Polycom is the latest tech vendor to announce job cuts, as the company continues to deal with the transition in the video conferencing and...

‘123456’ Overtakes ‘Password’ as Weakest Password

The good news? The word "password" is not the weakest password found on the Internet. The bad news? It's still number two, and the...

FuzeBox Grows Interoperability of Its Cloud-Based Video Conferencing

FuzeBox wants to make it easier for users of its cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services to share content on disparate video conferencing platforms....

Alcatel-Lucent May Sell Enterprise Biz to Unify: Report

Alcatel-Lucent reportedly is looking to sell its enterprise business and is negotiating with communications technology vendor Unify and possibly other companies.Citing three unnamed sources,...

Acer’s New CEO Pins Troubles on Initial Ultrabook, Touch Efforts

Acer is paying the price for jumping too aggressively in to the Ultrabook space and touch-enabled notebooks, according to new CEO Jason Chen.According to...

ClearOne Buys Spontania to Add Cloud to Video Conferencing Lineup

ClearOne is bringing cloud capabilities to its video conferencing product portfolio with the planned $5 million acquisition of Spontania.ClearOne, which announced the deal Jan....

Palo Alto Networks Buys Security Startup Morta

Palo Alto Networks is bolstering its cyber-security capabilities by buying startup Morta Security.The acquisition of Morta—a small company started by veterans of the National...

Cisco CEO: Internet of Everything Will Be Worth $19 Trillion

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the global financial impact of the Internet of everything will hit $19 trillion by 2020, the result of...

Oracle Builds Out SDN Portfolio With Corente Buy

Oracle is pushing deeper into the networking space, with plans to buy Corente, a company with expertise in software-defined networks for WAN environments.Oracle officials...

Cisco CEO Chambers to Focus on Internet of Everything at CES

The Internet of everything will take center stage when Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers gives his keynote address Jan. 7 at the Consumer Electronics...