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The green datacentre -- an oxymoron?
news analysis The datacentre is the first and most obvious place the IT industry has looked at in addressing its overzealous consumption of power. But is the industry's hungriest power user capable of "going green"?
Cisco's push-to-talk VoIP
ZDNet executive editor David Berlind talks to Cisco vice president for mobility solutions Alan Cohen about the company's latest announcement for the retail VoIP market. To read more about Berlind's take on Cisco's push-to-talk VoIP, click here.
Cisco mixes it up with Interop mashup
At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Cisco CEO John Chambers demos the company's new Unified Communications platform. Combining telepresence and mapping technologies, the mashup allows users to identify and then locate an individual over a network.
Chambers preaches Web 2.0 gospel
At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Cisco CEO John Chambers talks about the need for businesses to increase productivity by implementing Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, mashups, and virtual conferencing. He also explains how Cisco used Web 2.0 principles in its $7 billion acquisition of Scientific Atlanta.
Short clip: Why Churchill Downs fired its vendors
Jay Rollins, the vice president of information technology at Churchill Downs, explains the critical differences between vendors and partners.
Cisco previews next year's World Series
From Oracle OpenWorld 2006: Cisco Systems President and CEO John Chambers gives a demo with Chief Demonstration Officer Jim Grubb about what the future ballpark may have in store for its tech-savvy fans.
Chambers: What keeps Cisco competitive?
With all the buzz around Web 2.0, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers talks about the value of being, essentially, a plumber. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Gartner analysts Tom Bittman and David Willis question Chambers about getting customers to eschew standards in lieu of Cisco's top-to-bottom proprietary stacks.
President Bush in Silicon Valley
President Bush, Cisco CEO John Chambers and a panel of speakers talk about education, innovation and tech competition. The president touts education, R&D, and broadband for all.
Chinese publisher in exile testifies
Harry Wu, publisher of the China Information Center, speaks to aHouse subcommittee about the punishment of dissidents in China. Wu saidCisco gear is used to help police surveillance there.
Cisco: Did Cisco help China spy on Internet?
At Wednesday's hearing in Washington, Cisco Systems Vice President and General Counsel Mark Chandler says Internet systems all have built-in filtering capability, and that it's controlled by the service providers.
Taking heat over censorship in China
Rep. Christopher Smith chairs the House of RepresentativesSubcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and InternationalOperations. At a hearing in Washington, he reads a pointed indictment ofCisco Systems, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Smith says the techcompanies aid repression by the Chinese government.
Cisco on security: It's a network thing
At RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, Cisco CEO John Chambers speaks to an audience about the importance of the network in dealing with security threats.
Cisco unveils new router for telecom carriers
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Mike Volpi, general manager of the company's Routing Technology Group, show off the Carrier Routing System-1, which offers a system capacity of 92 terabits per second and enables large carriers to deliver higher volumes of Internet traffic.
Cisco's recipe for IT recovery
Productivity and partnerships will be key to the IT industry's recovery, Cisco CEO John Chambers said in his recent keynote address at NetWorld+Interop 2003.