Esri Canada Named One of CDN’s Top 100 IT Solution Providers in Canada
Esri Canada today announced that the company has been named one of the Top 100 IT Solution Providers in Canada by Computer Dealer News (CDN), the country’s leading IT channel publication and Web site. Esri Canada ranked no. 20 on its first year on the list and also received the Best-Performing Newcomer Award. CDN Top 100 is an annual ranking of Canada’s best-in-class solution providers by revenue. The award was received yesterday at the CDN Top 100 gala event in North Read more
Stocks in the news: Lowe’s, Cisco, General Electric
General Motors Co.reported a $1.2 billion loss Monday for the period since it left bankruptcy protection through Sept.30,far better than previous quarters,and a sign that the auto giant is starting to turn around.GM also said it will begin repaying $6.7 billion in U.S.government loans with a $1.2 billion payment in December,and expects to repay the full amount by 2011.
Lowe’s (LOW) said Monday its third-quarter profit fell 30% to $344 million, or 23 cents per share,as revenue Read more
Cisco heads home with Linksys buy
The deal will facilitate Cisco’s entry into the consumer networking market,the company said in a statement.Following the close of the acquisition, Cisco will operate Linksys as a division and will continue to sell its products under the Linksys brand name.
“This acquisition supports our vision to drive innovations into the consumer market and create next-generation home networking solutions,”Charles Giancarlo,senior vice president and general manager for product Read more
Cisco Unified Wireless Network Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation and Pursues Common Criteria Conformance for National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) WLAN Access Protection Profile
Cisco Systems today extended its leadership position in wireless local area network (WLAN) security by announcing that the Cisco Unified Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points have received National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 level 2 validation of its IEEE 802.11i WLAN security architecture.
Cisco has been working closely with the Department of Defense (DoD) in defining requirements to enable higher levels of Read more
Cisco launches Aironet Wi-Fi hubs for BYO
The enterprise Wi-Fi hubs were unveiled at the Cisco Live event in London on Tuesday.Sujai Hajela, general manager of Cisco’s wireless networking business unit,said in an interview the company is looking to create gear that will”enable seamless connections to any wireless device”and maintain quality”no matter the difference from the access point.”
According to Hajela,Cisco expects the Aironet line can maintain quality as workers conduct video conferences, Read more
Cisco veteran joins Joost
Web TV service Joost has appointed Cisco veteran Mike Volpi as its chief executive.Mr Volpi, who was considered a possible heir to the Cisco chief executive, John Chambers, succeeds Joost’s founding chief executive, Fredrik de Wahl.Mr de Wahl remains at Joost as chief strategy officer.
The management shakeup comes a month after Joost secured $45m (￡22.6m) in funding from backers including Sequoia – an investor in companies including YouTube, Google, Yahoo! and Apple Read more
Cisco Announces Its $850 Million Spin-In
Cisco has notified its employees that it has funded an advanced networking startup,called Insieme, with $100 million,with the right to eventually buy the company for as much as $750 million more.
As reported in Bits last month Insieme was founded by three Cisco employees who have previously two other created Cisco-funded companies,one in data storage and one in high-speed networking.Like Insieme,these companies were designed to be purchased by Cisco,a creation known as a“spin Read more
Management: Suddenly Loyalty Is Back In Business
Loyalty was supposed to be dead. During the labor shortages of the late 1990s,ambitious workers found that the best way to get ahead was to jump from job to job.Then when the economy cooled,long before Sept.11,the first response of many managers was to shed lots of employees.Little wonder that the average 32-year-old today has worked for nine companies.And she has probably bought nine brands of shampoo from a dozen drugstores, supermarkets and websites.For many customers,loyalty to a product Read more
New IT targets drug counterfeiting in developing countries
Sproxil, a startup that develops tools for brand protection in emerging markets, has enlisted IBM technology to help reduce drug counterfeiting and help consumers to verify the authenticity of prescriptions with their smartphones.
Through its collaboration with IBM, Sproxil officials say the company is extending manufacturers’ ability to view and analyze real time consumer data to detect and prevent drug counterfeiting in developing countries – where 25 to 50 percent of Read more
Christiana Care Health System’s value symposium attracts doctors from across the nation
Doctors from among the nation’s leading hospitals gathered today at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center in Newark, Delaware, where Christiana Care Health System held its inaugural symposium entitled “Value: Medicine’s New Frontier.” The event focused on evolving systems in the health care world and ways health providers can improve patient care, increase access and optimize value.
“Hospitals and doctors from across the country aren’t waiting Read more
