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Apple iPhone and Google Android phone owners can now watch live NBA games The National Basketball Association is now offering mobile phone owners the ability to watch entire live games for $40 per year. Just a few games into the 2009-2010 NBA season, this is the first time entire games are available for streaming -- only game highlights were previously available through an official service. There are now three methods to watch complete games in the NBA:  via TV, PC, or now using a mobile phone.  Initial estimates report 59M mobile phone owners have the ability to watch streaming NBA...

Even with no time on the clock the top-ranked Blinn Buccaneers scored points in their homecoming game against Cisco College to log their eighth win of the season and set up a showdown with No. 2 Navarro next Saturday in Corsicana. The Bucs scored seven touchdowns in the first half and five in the second half to win 84-13 at Spencer Stadium.

Cisco has cut between 600 and 700 jobs at its headquarters in San Jose, Calif., the Journal said, and has trimmed jobs in branch offices as well.

Cisco Systems is in the process of cutting between 1,500 and 2,000 jobs. according to an reportfrom Thomas Weisel analyst Hasan Imam. A Cisco [CSCO 18.17 --- UNCH (0) ] representative was not immediately available to comment on the report, which also said that the company could exceed its plan to cut annual costs by $1 billion with job cuts. "Our checks indicate Cisco is aggressively managing expenses as management navigates through the downturn," Imam said in the research report. The analyst said that on top of cuts such as reducing travel budgets and cutting variable compensation he believed that...

The Dow Jones industrial average is adding Travelers Cos. and Cisco Systems Inc., dropping Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp. The announcement Monday of the changes to the 30 stocks that make up the best-known barometer of Wall Street comes as GM enters bankruptcy protection, a move that was widely expected. Dow Jones said Travelers, the property and casualty insurer and one-time division of Citicorp, would replace its former parent. Cisco, which makes computer networking gear, is filling the role left by GM after 83 years as part of the Dow. The changes take effect June 8.

Note: The following text is a quote: Swedish National Charged with Hacking and Theft of Trade Secrets Related to Alleged Computer Intrusions at NASA and Cisco Philip Gabriel Pettersson, aka "Stakkato," 21, a Swedish national, was indicted today on intrusion and trade secret theft charges. The five-count indictment includes one intrusion count and two trade secret misappropriation counts involving Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco), of San Jose, Calif., which is a provider of computer network equipment and producer of Internet routers. According to the allegations in the indictment Pettersson intentionally committed an intrusion between May 12, 2004, and May 13, 2004,...

According to the below email, sent only hours ago by Cisco Systems to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Cisco is against the "Buy America" provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program....

Hello all. I recently purchased a Cisco ASA-5510(Adaptive Security Appliance) to handle all of our Site To Site and Remote Access VPN connections at work. The unit is licensed for 250 concurrent IPSEC tunnels, so I know licensing isn't a limitation. I have the unit up and running, but we have encountered an issue with our remote access clients...

The prosecution of an American company called Syren Technology offers a tantalizing hint of the espionage threat posed by fake Chinese computer parts. But so far neither U.S. law enforcement nor industry has publicly produced evidence of this kind of high-tech spying. Syren's proprietors, brothers Michael and Robert Edman, were indicted in Houston in December 2007 for selling counterfeit Cisco Systems (CSCO) computer gear to the Marine Corps, Air Force, and "multiple defense contractors." Federal prosecutors allege that the Edmans acquired the fake routers and other equipment from an "unindicted co-conspirator...who lives in China and sells counterfeit Cisco products using...

An FBI presentation states that China has counterfeited Cisco Systems network routers and may be using the equipment to penetrate U.S. government and private sector computer networks. Federal authorities in February seized some 400 counterfeit Cisco Systems knockoffs worth $76 million. The equipment included routers, switches, gigabit interface converters and WAN interface cards. Among the purchasers of the fake equipment were the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, U.S. Air Base at Spangdahelm, Germany, the Bonneville Power Administration, General Services Administration, and the defense contractor Raytheon, which makes key missile and weapons systems....

The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million. The criminal probe, code-named Operation Cisco Raider, was prompted by concerns that counterfeit network components could give hackers access to government databases. But one U.S. official told Reuters that the components discovered by the FBI are not believed to have made government computer systems more vulnerable. The existence of the probe came to light after an unclassified FBI PowerPoint presentation in January on the agency's efforts to counter...

Some months ago, my contacts in the defense industry had alerted me to a startling development that has escalated to the point of near-panick in nearly all corners of Government security and IT infrastructure. The very-real concern, being investigated by the FBI, is that either the Chinese government or Chinese hackers (or both) have had the benefit of undetectable back-doors into highly secure government and military computer networks for months, perhaps years. The cause: a high-number of counterfeit Cisco routers and switches installed in nearly all government networks that experienced upgrades and/or new units within the past 18 months.

(WASHINGTON) — US authorities announced Thursday they had seized more than 76 million dollars' worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems computer equipment manufactured in China over the past three years. Officials said the probe by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police aimed at halting counterfeit network routers, switches, network cards and modules -- some of which help protect computer networks important to national security. Chinese authorities also have cooperated in the Operation Cisco Raider probe, according to US officials. "By intercepting the counterfeit hardware at ports of entry and dismantling illegal supply chains in...

Cisco Systems revealed a major offensive today in its ongoing assault on the data center market. And more than ever, it proposes a vision in which data centers are defined not by a computer architecture, be it mainframe or PC server farm, but around the network itself. That makes sense. After all, almost every kind of software is evolving from something that was written for a particular computing platform, into something that is written to be delivered as a service via the Internet. And not static services, either, but ones that can be adapted at a moment’s notice on a...

Cisco Systems Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching data center virtualization strategy that includes new products and several new specializations for channel partners. Cisco's new "Data Center 3.0" strategy, unveiled at its Networkers at Cisco Live 2007 end-user conference in Anaheim, Calif., aims to boost the efficiency of data centers by upping server utilization rates, effectively enabling customers to get more out the equipment they've already got. The strategy calls for real-time management of virtualized server, storage and network resources, all tied in with security and application delivery. "The role of virtualization, when you talk about where the industry is going,...

MT. PLEASANT, South Carolina - Cisco Systems’ John Chambers and FedEx founder Fred Smith could be among those asked to serve in a John McCain cabinet, the Arizona senator said on Friday. Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young. US Senator John McCain greets supporters at a campaign event in Summerville, South Carolina, January 11, 2008. But their services would have to come at a discount. “I want to go get the best and the brightest, whether they’re Republican or Democrat, and I’m going to tell these men and women: ‘Work for a dollar. Work for a dollar a year. You’ve done pretty...

US winemakers seek to reduce alcohol content By Tom Leonard, in New York Last Updated: 2:47am GMT 11/01/2008 Winemakers in California are attempting to reduce the alcohol level in their notoriously powerful reds and whites. Californian "monster" wines regularly contain 15% vol alcohol and some are as high as 17%, alarming some of their own producers despite the praise of critics. The winemakers have responded by picking grapes earlier and employing other tactics designed to produce the more "balanced", lower alcohol wines that are popular in Europe. They say the move has in part been prompted by demand from American...

Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian...

In addition, Chambers said Cisco and China's Education Ministry will open 300 centers at vocational colleges to train students in networking technologies

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed. But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm,...

Cisco Systems, one of Silicon Valley's biggest employers, has been accused by a federal agency of discriminating against minority job candidates. Wednesday, the San Jose company denied the allegations - particularly the assertion about an ongoing pattern of discrimination. Cisco spokesman John Noh said this is the first time the company has received such a letter from the commission about accusations of an ongoing pattern of discrimination. Noh said Cisco attorneys are talking with the EEOC to prove the allegations are baseless, and Cisco hopes to get the letters rescinded. But it is rare for the commission to change its...

Cisco Systems Inc. is warning users that nearly 80 of its routers are vulnerable to a hack tactic that got play last week. Dubbed "drive-by pharming" by Symantec Corp. and university researchers who first publicized the danger in a paper, the attack involves luring users to malicious sites where a device's default password is used to redirect them to bogus sites. Once they are at those sites, their identities could be stolen or malware could be force-fed to their computers. In an advisory posted Thursday, Cisco listed 77 vulnerable routers in the lines sold to small offices, home offices, branch...

An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems said on Wednesday it sued Apple Inc. for infringing its "iPhone" trademark, after Apple unveiled a multimedia phone of the same name. Cisco said it was seeking an injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying its iPhone trademark. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has launched several wireless products with the iPhone name. On Tuesday, a Cisco spokeswoman had said the two companies had been in discussions, and that it believed that Apple would agree to a final document and public statement concerning the trademark.

BREAKING NEWS: Cisco is suing Apple for trademark infringement over its use of the iPhone brand. Full article coming shortly.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Wim Elfrink's climb up the corporate ladder has taken him from Holland to France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. But his latest promotion will take the Dutch polyglot far from his Western comfort zone. As the chief globalization officer at Cisco Systems Inc., Elfrink is taking his wife, two daughters and the family dog from suburban Silicon Valley to Bangalore, India. "My mother-in-law said to my wife, 'What did you do to deserve this?'" said Elfrink, who was scheduled to depart Sunday for a luxury home he's leasing in the southern Indian tech hub. "I...

How long do you think it will be that we must stay under the thumb of the kind of PCism that posits that all white people are evil, wrong, losers, stupid or otherwise weak and bad? Apparently Cisco Systems hasn't seen the end of it and that is why, in their TV commercial for their new TelePresence video conferencing system, the white kid loses. The commercial starts off with a white boy in an obviously American class room staring at the camera. Then cuts to an obvious foreign class room with a little Asian boy doing the same. As the...

Subnets began dropping off the MortgageIT network one after another. Entire bank branches went offline for days as Joe Bruner, network engineering manager there at the time, scrambled to purchase and install replacement parts. At first, he figured some of the new WAN interface cards (WIC) he recently installed to upgrade 50 Cisco 2811 routers during expansion and reorganization were faulty. But as more routers failed and dropped off the network, Bruner realized he was dealing with fakes.

LONDON--Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems' security technology group, has raised concerns that integrating Vista into a complex IT infrastructure could present problems. "Parts of Vista scare me," Gleichauf said at the Gartner Security Summit here on Monday. "Anything with that level of systems complexity will have new threats, as well as bringing new solutions. It's always a struggle in security, trying to build for what you don't know." Gleichauf told CNET News.com's sister site ZDNet UK that Cisco views the Microsoft operating system update, set for broad release in January, as a bearer of possible solutions...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD) said on Tuesday it would buy rival McData Corp. (MCDT) in a $713 million stock deal, bolstering its line of equipment for data storage networks to compete against Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO). Both companies sell equipment that boosts the efficiency of corporate communications networks used for data storage, with Brocade best known for mid-range products known as data switches, while McData's market share is strongest in directors, which are high-end versions of data switches. "It's made sense for them to come together to take on Cisco for a long time," said Glenn Hanus, an analyst...

Into the Valley Anyone gullible enough to believe vendor press releases would wonder why Cassatt even exists. It's a software start-up trying to compete in a server virtualization market dominated by the likes of IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems. And, in fact, these massive companies have already solved the virtualization problem, according to the last three years of their marketing material. Customers actually trying to improve their data center management situation don't buy this hype. They've watched HP kill off the Utility Data Center project after billing it as the clear future of computing. They've also seen Sun Microsystems do...

The faster transmission speeds and greater reach of 802.11n are achieved primarily through what is called MIMO technology. MIMO, which stands for "multiple input, multiple output," uses multiple radios to transmit streams of data, maximizing network performance. If you love new wireless gadgets and you're part of that risk-taking group of people known as "early adopters," Linksys has introduced a new router that might just knock your socks off. Called the WRT300N, the new router uses 802.11n, a new technology far superior to that of earlier wireless networks. The router can be used with the wireless cards found in laptops...

SCHWARZENEGGER SEEKS FUNDS FOR LEVEE FIXES, IMMIGRATION President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet briefly Friday in Silicon Valley, where the governor hopes to press for more federal funding to shore up California's aging levees and win reimbursement for incarceration of illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger is expected to meet the president when he touches down in the Bay Area. The governor will ride with Bush in the presidential motorcade to Cisco Systems in San Jose, where they will appear together. There, Bush plans to discuss his American Competitiveness Initiative with a handful of Silicon Valley executives, including host Cisco CEO...

Dave Givens knew a seven-hour roundtrip commute to and from Mariposa to Cisco's San Jose headquarters wasn't normal, but he didn't think it exceptionally unusual. Then Midas called. The auto repair firm this week handed Givens its "America's Longest Commute" award for his daily 372 mile trek. Givens had entered the contest on a coworker's suggestion and never expected to win. Now, the electrical engineer is giving the massive commute a rethink. "I was thinking that a few people would have a commute like this," he told us. "I really didn't think I had the longest one. "I am totally...

Four years after it was founded, Veraz Networks Ltd. is about to make good on its promises. If all goes as planned, the company will float on Nasdaq by the of this year. Investment banks negotiating with the company are hinting that it could go public at a company value of $400-500 million. These numbers will make Veraz one of the largest IPOs by a telecommunications equipment company in recent years. Veraz develops and markets software-based switches (softswtiches) and hook-up solutions between traditional telephony networks and next-generation VoIP networks. The company’s technology, softswitches and media gateways for voice compression, help...

Not a moment too soon, Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems have with China's cyber-police. Top executives from the four firms testified last week before a House subcommittee. The most intriguing questions concerned morality. They don't like China's censorship of the Web, company spokesmen said, but censored information is better than none. Besides, they also argued, they have to comply with the laws of the countries in which they operate. That may be. But China makes a mockery of the Internet's promise of free-flowing information by employing...

U.S. Tech Giants Deny Complicity in China Censorship BY KEVIN COUGHLIN Bing Zhou's dreams of a science career in his native China were dashed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He now heads nanotechnology research for a New Jersey company and is grateful for Western freedoms. Yet he can't fault executives at search engine Google for bowing to Chinese censors to do business in Beijing. "Sometimes, you need to make compromises," says the executive at Headwaters NanoKinetix Inc. in Lawrenceville, N.J. "If you are not there, your influence is much less and China will be even slower to get democracy."Executives...

Demonstrations occurred all over the world on Valentines, including a valentine's breakup of Google~Here are just a few of the protests Mountain View, California- It's about 4 pm outside the Google corporate headquarters here in Mountain View, CA and we've got about 35-40 people out in the sunshine. Black Eyed Peas' "Where is the Love?" is blasting out of the speakers right now as the screamers and shouters take a breather in the grass. Several news and media outlets came by and interviewed SFTers Dhela of UC Davis, Thupten, Gunn student Iliana, and myself. Bay area dance teacher Tsering performed...

Yahoo's general counsel, Michael Callahan, will join executives from Google, Microsoft and Cisco before the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations on Wednesday. All four companies have come under fire for their dealings in China — from agreeing to censor their search or blogging tools to providing hardware that makes government surveillance of Internet users easier. The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders revealed last Wednesday that a Chinese division of Yahoo had provided information to authorities that contributed to the conviction in 2003 of Li Zhi, a former civil servant who had criticized local officials online....

With engineering help from half a dozen Western firms, the Chinese Communist Party has erected a huge apparatus to censor free speech. A ragtag crew of hacker dissidents may succeed in tearing it down.In a windowless room in New York City, a computer engineer with owlish glasses--call her “Jenny Chen”--peers at a color-coded bar graph on her PC screen. Her group is launching attacks on the Chinese wall of censorship that blocks access to sites discussing verboten topics like civil rights and democracy. The graph displays how many Chinese that month evaded the country’s censorship to condemn the Chinese Communist...

Aiding the Policenet By Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | February 8, 2006 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiting Fellow at PNAC, he is the winner of "Spirit of Tiananmen" and "Chan's Journalism" awards in 2005. He has written for Weekly Standard, Asian WSJ, Investor's Business Daily and other publications. FP: Ethan Gutmann, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Gutmann: Thanks Jamie. It’s an honor. FP: Google has just recently agreed to formally censor its China operations to Chinese Communist Party specifications. According...

It was a disgusting, when Yahoo helped China jail a dissident writer in September. But it wasn't exactly uncommon. Lots of American technology companies have been helping out the autocrats in Beijing, Legal Affairs notes. Take Cisco. The company "earns $500 million a year in revenues [in China] and holds 60 percent of the Chinese market for routers, switches, and other sophisticated networking gear." That includes "the watchdog router that prevents Internet users in China from gaining access to banned websites." And it includes Policenet, which "connects officials of the Public Security Bureau — a national agency with local branches...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In a deal reminiscent of its 1990s networking acquisitions, Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed in principle to acquire No. 2 set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta Inc. for $6.9 billion in cash. Cisco (San Jose, Calif.) has made no secret of its interest in entering the cable TV market, and has been a player in headend equipment since the late 1990s. Its presence in the residential gateway market was enhanced with the 2003 acquisition of Linksys Inc., a leader in Wi-Fi routers. But its bid for Scientific-Atlanta (Lawrenceville, Ga.) caught most financial analysts by surprise. The purchase price...

Cisco is bullish on India and cannot wait to use Indian expertise for research and development. Cisco Systems Inc. will hire more engineers in India than in the United States for its research and development work over the next three years, the company's chief executive said Friday. President and CEO John Chambers said the company would invest US$50 million (A41.83 million) to set up a second research and development center in Bangalore, India's technology hub, and triple its workforce here to more than 4,000 by 2008. He said this would mean more engineers are hired in India than in the...

Cisco plans to invest USD 50 million in Bangalore Networking giant Cisco Systems has announced their plans to invest big in the IT city of India, Bangalore. They are going to be developing a new one-million-square-ft campus in the city to support its staff. And this includes their workers in the research and development team as well as the people working in IT, sales, and customer support team. They would be spending close to around USD 50 million for this integrated campus scheduled to be completed by 2007. Mr. John Chambers, president, Cisco made this groundbreaking announcement at the unveiling...

Forget the Fantastic Four. As I write, the forces of Good (the White Hats) and Evil (the Black Hats) are fighting for control of the Internet as we know it. At stake is the exploitation of flaws affecting the once-invincible Cisco router hardware, which currently carries most of the Internet's traffic on a daily basis. Once a working exploit for the Cisco IOS Shellcode is available on the Internet, it'll be only a matter of days before someone finds a way to craft it into a network worm. And then it's going to be a rough ride for everyone who...

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- Nokia Corp. shares rose Monday after a report that Cisco Systems Inc. was interested in an acquisition in the wireless market and the Finnish mobile phone maker might be a target. Nokia shares were up 1.9 percent at 13.17 euros ($16.31) in early afternoon trading on the Helsinki exchange. The gains came after The Business newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco is considering buying a wireless company, and that Nokia had been identified as the most likely target. The newspaper did not identify its sources, and Nokia declined to comment to The...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) is considering buying the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) in a bid to gain its wireless infrastructure technology, the Business newspaper reported on Sunday. The paper, which did not reveal the source of its information, said U.S.-based Cisco had traditionally concentrated on acquisitions of niche technology players, but its Chief Executive John Chambers is believed to be interested in merging with a wireless infrastructure company. "Nokia has been identified as the most likely target," the paper said. Cisco, the largest maker of Internet equipment, is worth around $123 billion,...

Cisco is advising customers to update passwords for the company's web portal following a security breach reported this morning. The company has admitted that the compromise could expose customer passwords but gave no further details of the cause of the problem. In a press statement, Cisco said: "It has been brought to our attention that there is an issue in a Cisco.com search tool that could expose passwords for registered users. "As a result, to protect our registered Cisco.com users, we're taking the proactive step of resetting Cisco.com passwords. Needless to say we're investigating the incident which does not appear...

Cisco Security Advisory: IPv6 Crafted Packet Vulnerability Document ID: 65783 Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2005 July 29 0800 UTC Please provide your feedback on this document. Contents Summary Affected Products Details Impact Software Versions and Fixes Obtaining Fixed Software Workarounds Exploitation and Public Announcements Status of This Notice: INTERIM Distribution Revision History Cisco Security Procedures Summary Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) Software is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially an arbitrary code execution attack from a specifically crafted IPv6 packet. The packet must be sent from a local network segment. Only devices that have been explicitly...