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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Live, Day 1 - tradeshow and attendees

• Global optical networking revenues drop: Ovum

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 June, 2012 16:44

  For the first time in almost two years, the quarterly global optical networking (ON) revenues has hit a low year-over-year (YoY) margin, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 1

  By John Cox | 01 June, 2012 16:36

  It's amazing Apple hasn't sunk, given how many purported leaks began spouting blueprints, parts and chips this past week. The iOSphere pulled on its boots and began splashing in the puddles, with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference drawing near.

• Samsung buys Swedish wireless chip company Nanoradio

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 10:32

  Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.

• BYOD's phone number problem

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 May, 2012 22:06

  A simple smartphone number can be an incredibly important corporate asset, but companies will have to give it up in a BYOD scenario.

• CIOs extend unified communications to mobile devices

  By Lauren Brousell | 31 May, 2012 19:15

  A survey finds that IT leaders are accelerating their plans to invest in unified communications and collaboration technologies. But the systems aren't cheap.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 30 May, 2012 20:25

  Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2000 to 6000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.

• San Francisco website TaskRabbit expands in the US, London in its sights

  By Kerry Davis | 29 May, 2012 21:12

  Cynthia De Acha didn't know that she could buy fresh New England lobsters in Silicon Valley, but thanks to a recent delivery to a Google executive, she's becoming aware of all kinds of previously hidden corners of the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

  By Stephen Lawson | 25 May, 2012 23:31

  Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

• Palo Alto Networks: Challenging the incumbents

  By Patrick Budmar | 09 May, 2012 08:31

  Founder, Nir Zuk, on the vendor’s approach to the local market

• CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship

  By Stephen Lawson | 14 December, 2010 08:29

  Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalisation in the range of $US100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT.

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• HP puts the networking pedal to the metal

  By John Dix | 10 September, 2009 15:00

  Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of HP's ProCurve Networking business, which was recently aligned with the company's server, storage and services businesses under HP's Technology Solutions Group, creating an approximately $45 billion unit. Haas, who previously served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, is charged with shifting the network business into overdrive. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Haas to talk about the market and his plans.

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

  By John Cox | 15 May, 2012 01:31

  Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.

• 10 predictions for what the CIO Role will look like in 2020

  By John Brandon | 04 May, 2012 01:39

  At the same time, we also know that technology will change dramatically. Who could have predicted even 10 years ago that the CIO would have to deal with complications such as cloud security and virtualisation? To find out how the role will change in eight years, we tapped industry leaders, analysts and CIOs themselves to discover what the challenges of 2020 for the CIO will be like. Here's what we found out.

• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• BYOD battle: A tale of two opposing IT viewpoints

  By Ellen Messmer | 19 April, 2012 20:33

  EdSouth is a bank holding company active in the student-loan arena, and Arrow Container Corp. manufactures cartons and containers. Their ideas about letting employees use their own mobile devices at work for business — what's often called "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) — couldn't be more different.

• Hot for this quarter: The best smartphones

  By Brad Reed | 19 April, 2012 08:45

  Device manufacturers are starting to roll out some of their marquee smartphones in an effort to generate some buzz before Apple inevitably drops its newest iPhone this (northern) summer.

• Hold the phone: retailers eye payments via smartphone

  By Maria Korolov | 26 March, 2012 22:26

  An emerging technology called Near Field Communication will soon give new meaning to the phrase "tapped out."

• Case study: Designing 'iPad WLANs' poses new, renewed challenges

  By John Cox | 26 March, 2012 15:31

  Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.