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Another Acquisition for Cisco

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Another Acquisition for Cisco

The Cisco wallet is clearly wide open as the company makes yet another acquisition this month-- network management server and software developer BroadHop. 

Financial details of the acquisitions are not available. 

BroadHop develops policy control and service management products for mobile and fixed carrier networks. Already a Cisco service provider wifi partner, its products support the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) initiative. 

According to Cisco reasons for the purchase include the growth of global IP traffic (set to triple over the next Read more...

Haivision Launches New H.264 Encoding Platform With Makito X Series

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Haivision Launches New H.264 Encoding Platform With Makito X Series

Haivision announces its "next-generation" H.264 video encoding platform, the Makito X Series. Haivision says the Makito X Series offers a 6X increase in encoding power to deliver HD video using half of the bandwidth of comparable encoders.

The Makito X2, a dual channel low-latency HD-SDI H.264 encoder, is the first Haivision product to incorporate the company's new X Series technology. It can encode up to 12 HD sources (up to 1080p 60Hz) to H.264 within a 1RU of rack space. Supporting High Profile H.264 video compression, the Makito X2 specs Read more...

Honeywell Snaps Up Intermec

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Honeywell Snaps Up Intermec

Giant conglomerate Honeywell pays up $600 million in cash for Intermec, a manufacturer of automated identification and data capture products for specialised markets. 

According to a press statement Intermec technology (such as rugged mobile computing devices and RF identification products) will go towards expanding the Honeywell auto identification and data capture offering. 

"The agreement with Honeywell not only maximizes value for our stockholders, it combines our history of innovation and engineering expertise, global reach and leading products Read more...

Cisco Snaps Up Cariden

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Cisco Snaps Up Cariden

Cisco keeps its wallet close at hand during November 2012-- the company spends $141 million in cash on privately held network software developer Cariden Technologies. 

The purchase follows last week's all-cash $1.2 billion acquisition of cloud networking solutions provider Meraki. 

Cariden develops network planning, design and traffic management solutions for telecommunications service providers. It already supports the Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, the Cisco take on software-defined networking. 

Following acquisition the company will be Read more...

HP: Q4 Revenues Down, Allegedly Cooked Autonomy Books

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HP: Q4 Revenues Down, Allegedly Cooked Autonomy Books

HP's revenue losses for Q4 2012 might total $6.9 billion, but that might be the least of its trouble-- the company faces an impairment charge worth $8.8 billion from 2011 acquisition Autonomy.

The company blames the majority (over $5bn) of the non-cash charge on "serious accounting improprieties." Meaning HP alleges Autonomy cooked its books by billions before it was bought by then CEO Leo Apotheker for $12 bn.

"There appears to have been a willful sustained effort" to inflate Autonomy's revenue and profitability... This was designed to be hidden," HP CEO Meg Whitman says. On the other hand Apotheker makes suitably disappointed noises, claiming "the developments are a shock to the many who believed in the company, myself included."

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Dell Dependence on Enterprise Grows

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Dell Dependence on Enterprise Grows

Overall Dell revenue for fiscal Q3 2013 is down by -11% Y-o-Y (or 5.3% Q-o-Q), reaching $13.7bn. Earlier analyst forecasts hoped for Dell revenues showing at least 3% Y-o-Y growth.

EMEA is the worst hit region, with revenues dropping by -15% Y-o-Y.

Enterprise remains the only bright spot for the PC maker-- Dell Enterprise Solutions and Services revenues grow by 3% (to $4.8bn) and server and networking products reach 11% Y-o-Y growth.

However it does see declines in large enterprise (-8%), public (-11%) and SMB (-1%) revenues, reflecting the current m Read more...

Intel CEO Steps Down

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Intel CEO Steps Down

In a surprise announcement Intel CEO Paul Otellini steps down from the company on May 2013, following "an orderly leadership transition over the next six months."

Otellini, 62, is just the 5th Intel CEO (after Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove and Craig Barrett) and has a 40-year history with the 45-year old company. He is the man behind ultrabooks, as well as (admittedly none too successful) Intel attempts to take over part of a mobile processor market dominated by ARM-based designs.

“After almost 4 decades with the company and 8 years as Read more...

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