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TECHNOLOGY - Computer Hardware - Networking & Communication Devices
Generated: Thursday September 15, 2011 04:08 AM

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  • Geir Langfeldt Olsen | Sep 19,'11 | Full StoryCSCO  
    AIK.OB  Chief Executive Officer
  • Yuri Wahab | Sep 8,'11 | Full Story  
    CSCO  Managing Director
  • Vatsun Thirapatarapong | Sep 1,'11 | Full StoryCSCO  General Manager
    HPQ  General Manager

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  • Group Says It Has New Evidence of Cisco's Misdeeds in China
    Cisco at the time said it had made nothing special for China.</p><p>On Friday afternoon, the group amended its original complaint, saying it had evidence showing that Cisco customized its products specifically to help Beijing go after members of the religious group Falun Gong.</p><p>A Cisco spokeswoman, Kristin Carvell, said company officials were reviewing the amended complaint and could offer no further comment .</p><p>The group's evidence includes documents that the group says were part of Cisco's marketing pitch to Chinese organizations and government agencies, including a page from a PowerPoint presentation boasting that Cisco's technology can "recognize over 90% of Falun Gong pictures" in e-mail traffic.
    - Kristin Carvell

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  • Cisco Pumping $75 Million Into SMB Partner Led Strategy 
    The VAR Guy  | Sep 15,'11

    Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers yesterday attacked rival Juniper Networks . Now, Cisco is following up with a $75 million investment to help drive SMB Partner Led sales, according to Andrew Sage , Cisco's VP of Partner Led. It's all part of the “Next Cisco” strategy. Has the sleeping giant truly awoken? Here's the update. During an analyst meeting yesterday, Chambers said
  • CSCO: Street Cheers ‘Reasonable' Forecast, Aggressive Tone 
    Tech Trader Daily  | Sep 14,'11

    Reports continue to flow in regarding Cisco Systems's ( CSCO ) analyst day, which took place yesterday . To recap, Cisco announced new targets for the next three years, consisting of 5% to 7% revenue growth, and faster profit growth, at 7% to 9% per annum, compounded. Many observes today note what seemed a revitalized spirit on the part of management, with CEO John Chambers sounding
  • The Inside on the Inside Cisco SIO Network World Article 
    Cisco High Tech Policy Blog  | Sep 14,'11

    Several of us recently had the pleasure of working with Ann Bednarz from Network World on her feature article, “ Inside Cisco Security Intelligence Operations ” (SIO). We were all very pleased with the resulting article and her ability to capture and convey the intricacies of Cisco SIO. Considering the size, complexity, diversity, and distribution of the teams and technologies that
  • Cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter 
    Slashdot  | Sep 14,'11

    from the that'll-be-ten-grand-for-another-year dept. Joining the ranks of accepted submitters, Zibodiz writes with an article in PC World about Cisco restructuring. From the article: "Cisco Systems emerged from 150 days of restructuring on Tuesday ... The networking company started to streamline its operations and refocus itself on a few core businesses earlier this year after posting
  • The good, the bad and the ugly of Cisco's cutting its growth 
    GigaOM  | Sep 14,'11

    Cisco said its sales would grow by 5 to 7 percent through 2014, cutting its revenue growth in half, and signaling the end of its massive restructuring effort at an analyst day Tuesday. The move sent the stock up, but Cisco isn't out of the woods.
  • Cisco: Stifel Ups Target To $20; Prices Stabilize, Getting Aggressive 
    Tech Trader Daily  | Sep 14,'11

    Stifel Nicolaus's Sanjiv Wadhwani today reiterates a Buy rating on Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) shares and raised his price target to $20 from $17 following the company's financial analyst meeting yesterday, which I wrote about in some detail here and here and here . Wadhwani thinks management has set “conservative and achievable targets for the next three years,” with revenue growth

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