So Cisco has moved the bluetooth to a more forgiving environment, fashion-wise: large enterprises.
It's better to cannibalize yourself than to have your business devoured by someone else, so Cisco watches its competitors and either beats them or buys them.
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It so happens that Polycom and Cisco have also reported ongoing slides in video conferencing sales, so Logitech's explanation is entirely justified -- not that it makes the LifeSize acquisition look any smarter.
Well, so much for Cisco getting out of the cable equipment business.
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Cisco hasn't purchased so many companies so early in the year since 2000, when it bought a total of 23 companies.
So far, Cisco has hired only one of the academy students: part-time maintenance technician Felicia Voss, 18, who graduated last spring from San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School.
You can certainly point to the likes of Apple and Amazon, but both of these companies continue to maintain around 20% growth in earnings per share, versus the 10% or so growth at Cisco.
"Cisco depends on direct touch for so many of its sales, " he says.
So can the likes of Cisco, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, albeit in different ways.
But the chips made their way into so many products--Cisco routers, Seagate disk drives, Netgear wireless modems--only because of Dai's relentless salesmanship.
Undaunted by having to absorb so many new properties, Cisco kept racking up 40% annual sales growth and relying on an omniscient ability to track orders and forecast demand.
But the chips made their way into so many products-- Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) routers, Seagate disk drives, Netgear (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ) wireless modems--only because of Dai's relentless salesmanship.
Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.
So why are users buying a Cisco gadget that only records video when their iPhones and iPods include the same function?
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Said differently, what is Cisco really getting and did it have to spend so much for it.
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So what made Acme Packet so attractive to giants like Oracle and Cisco?
Cisco Systems (CSCO) for awhile, so its 13% rise since reporting quarterly earnings late Wednesday that exceeded analyst expectation was nice for me to see.
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Cisco is committed to feeding this jobs beast, so that it can hire enough people in-house, and so that its many partners around the globe can be fully staffed with highly trained workers.
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The units are so independent that when the Jabil manager overseeing the Cisco account recently decided to move some St.
"We run our business in cells, too, so there's a strong cultural compatibility with Jabil, " says Cisco's Redfield.
This would be industries like technology, software, the Internet, biotech, entertainment and companies like Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, the new and improved Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and so on.
To be sure, with intermediate-term munis earning 4% and Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) not doing so well, the 7% return may be a pipe dream.
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So far, these IP phones are mostly used in corporate IP networks, but Cisco sees the day when they will also be used in the home.
So the Cheever team replaced their existing system with new Internet Protocol-based hardware from Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
Cisco Systems ( CSCO) in recent years has been a stock sliding sideways, a not-so-sexy manufacturer of routers and switches that make vast IT systems function.
So when IBM announces second-quarter earnings Thursday, ahead of other tech giants like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, the results will either confirm a gloomy quarter or offer a bit of contrarian optimism.
"Privacy and identity management become a lot more important, " he says, noting that a recent security alliance between IBM and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) takes things even further, so that the network itself can manage identities of things like cars or washing machines that are increasingly wired in.
Cisco, he says, can help carriers reduce their spending on operating expenses while helping them create new services so they can monetize their investments in technology.
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