Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, will be much in evidence at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Scientific Atlanta gear will be a key part of The Connected Home, Cisco’s evolving vision to provider consumers at home access to all types of content (premium video, photos, music, data, voice and home video) on televisions, personal computers, cell phones and mobile devices. Scientific Atlanta will also demonstrate Direct to Disc. This product concept will enable consumers to purchase on-demand video, music or software from their service provider and then--using Scientific Atlanta’s DVR with built-in DVD set-top--record the content to a disc. Read More »

Extending the power of presence technology to mobile IP phones, two of the new seven iPhones that Linksys introduced today at CES integrate popular communication clients, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, into the handset. These new iPhones allow you to see when friends or family are online and ready to receive a call. What’s more, these client-enabled iPhones free you from having to sit at your PC to talk and also free you from having to keep the PC always-on to make calls over the Internet. In addition to enabling mobility and voice calls, the Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice allows access to Yahoo information services. Skip hunting for the phone book or returning to your computer to search for a phone number. Do it from the phone and also check weather forecasts directly from the phone’s display.
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At CES, John Chambers will be speaking about the Connected Home, Cisco’s vision for the future. On the News@Cisco site, Chief development officer, Charlie Giancarlo, discussed how networking technology is changing digital communications and entertainment. Cisco launched its Second Life presence in December, and is now bringing the connected home to life in Second Life. At CES, as Cisco talks about its view of the future, Cisco is presenting its view of the future in Second Life with the Cisco Connected Home. Read More »

Given Apple’s numerous requests for permissions to use Cisco’s iPhone trademark over the past several years and our extensive discussions with them recently, it is our belief that with their announcement today, Apple intends to agree to the final document and public statement that were distributed to them last night and that addressed a few remaining items. We expect to receive a signed agreement today. Penny Bruce, Director, Corporate Public Relations, Cisco

In a follow-up article to the Cisco announcement of the acquisition of leading messaging security vendor, IronPort, ChannelWebNews quoted the CEO of Atrion Networking, which works with both Cisco and IronPort, on the ideal timing of the purchase.”œWe’re seeing a number of people that I would call early adopters [replacing their mail security solutions] in the last year and really looking for more manageable, easier-to-use, higher-performance solutions. You’re going to see an explosion of anti-spam/mail security-type solutions being purchased and replaced in the next few years.” Read More »