Topic: Communications and Networking Equipment

Apple Hits The Living Room

After the runaway success of its iTunes music software and iPod music player, Apple Computer has added a new gadget to its digital music kit -- the Airport Express, a wireless networking device aimed at turning your living room into ...READ»

HP Acquires 3Com for $2.7 Billion, Brings Fight to Cisco

The news that Hewlett Packard has just slapped down $2.7 billion to acquire 3Com looks like a move that will be good for the two firms. Both companies' respective products will dovetail nicely to turn HP into what could easily be ...READ»

Warning: Speed Bumps for 56K

Can a 56 Kbps modem really give your home-office Web connection a boost in speed?READ»

Salary Men

The San Francisco Business Times recently released a list of who they consider the most overpaid and underpaid executives in the Bay Area. Researching CEO compensation, as well as organizations' public performance, the paper came up ...READ»

Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ»

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Cisco's Most Important Meal of the Day

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

Road Rules - Rule 13

Upgrade how you upgrade.READ»

News She Can Use

Sylvia Clarke says using PointCast makes the Web "better, faster, andmore efficient than before."READ»

Show Me Your Data, Not Your Face

With a new modem and software, dataconferencing is possible.READ»

Not So Good With Names (Update)

Last week, I wrote about Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems dispute over the right to use the name iPhone. They settled yesterday and according to an article in today's New York Times, the companies will no longer have any legal disputes ...READ»

Grand Junction Networks

In September 1995, Grand Junction Networks was growing out of its skin.READ»

Update

Fast Deals Some of the 50 Most Innovative Companies we cited in March have found one another as intriguing as we did. We named Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the supersimple Flip digital video recorders, No. 7; that month, ...READ»

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Road Warrior: Regional Operator

If you're doing some hard traveling and you're miles away from phone lines, how are you going to get urgent email?READ»

How to Think Big and Move Fast

It's hard enough in this economic climate to start one new company. So why is H. Michael Zadikian, who sold his last startup for $500 million, determined to start four at the same time? Part two of our entrepreneurial adventure story.READ»

Innovation Awards

How do you quantify corporate imagination? Meet the top companies on the first-ever Fast Company/Monitor Group Innovation Scorecard -- firms where new ideas are a competitive advantage.READ»

The Next Small Thing

What does it take to change the world? Obsession. Tenacity. And lots of mistakes. That's the untold story behind the PalmPilot - a 15-year saga that produced the kind of breakthrough that every startup dreams of.READ»

Fast Company Buzz Innovating like Cisco Systems

A few weeks ago I posted an interview with Matt Greeley, the CEO of a company called BrightIdea.com. Matt explained that his company had a turnkey innovation feedback portal that let users submit and vote on ideas, so companies can ...READ»

In Search of the Perfect Startup

It's hard enough in this economic climate to start one new company. So why is H. Michael Zadikian, who sold his last startup for $500 million, determined to start four at the same time? An entrepreneurial adventure story, in two parts.READ»

Samsung Reveals Media Streamer

Today is apparently Samsung day here on the Tech Watch blog, partially because your humble blogger attended a fancy Samsung media demo event today in New York's West Village, and partly because the tech gods haven't bestowed upon us ...READ»

The Network IS the Innovation Lab

Back in the days of Web 1.0, a.k.a. before the great crash of 2000, Scott McNealy, then CEO of SUN Microsystems was fond of saying, “The network IS the computer.” Now that we’re in the world of Web 2.0 where the term ...READ»