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Here’s the smart grid world according to Cisco and nine points you should know about Cisco’s smart grid goals. Read more »

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Cisco plans to move away from selling its building and home energy management products, the router giant announced via blog post on Wednesday afternoon. The move follows both Microsoft’s and Google’s decisions to shut down their energy management software products. Read more »

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Online backup companies know that once you pay for the painstaking initial data dump, you’ll likely stay a customer long-term, because of convenience. But could unique features and attractive pricing convince you to switch? Today we turn to Backblaze and CrashPlan to find out. Read more »

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Movie studios are keen on creating a new window enabling viewers to watch recently released films without going to the movie theater. With a “premium” VOD service, studios hope to capture the at-home viewing audience while still maintaining the high cost of the big screen. Read more »

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The rivalry between networking gear giants Cisco and Juniper has extended across routers, wireless products, and security services for years. But now it’s extended into a seemingly unusual area: the smart grid. That link-up is an interesting move that could help them team up against Cisco. Read more »

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If you want to eject a disc from your Mac, there are currently two ways of doing this in OS X that most users know of, but there’s actually a hidden app that you may not know about that resides in the menu bar. Read more »

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If you read Scott’s recent Moving to Mac series, you’ll know that transitioning to Mac from Windows is not as tricky as some might fear. However, there is one area that can cause a lot of pain, and that’s moving email between Outlook and Mail. Read more »

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Just last week we noted how Cisco had one official smart grid product on the market, which was basically hardened networking gear for utility substations. Yeah, well scratch that. On Tuesday morning Cisco launched its all-out smart grid assault, including a home energy management product. Read more »

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While Cisco is the kingpin of the Internet router market, it’s a relative newbee in the smart grid world. Cisco only introduced hardened networking gear for utility substations in May, and there’s actually a variety of companies already selling such gear. Read more »

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Will the smart grid eventually follow the path of the Internet with truly open standards? Several up-and-coming companies are betting that the answer will be a resounding “yes” and are looking to sign up customers that see the vision of the open standards-based smart grid. Read more »

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Conditional formatting in Numbers lets you format the contents of a cell based on certain rules. So say you want to show all negative numbers as red and bold…conditional formatting lets us do that! We’ll cover how to apply conditional formatting to numbers, text and dates. Read more »

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Apple, met with limited success of the Apple TV, has called its device “a hobby” but Google, with its Google TV, is forging ahead with what it believes could revolutionize the industry. So how do they compare? Read more »

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I came across TrashMe while looking for a decent uninstaller for my Mac. Unlike Scott, I made the transition to Mac quite a while ago, but I still struggle with some aspects of it. One thing that irks me is the way that apps are installed. Read more »

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The season finale of Lost yesterday was seen by 13.5 million viewers in the U.S., plus millions more around the globe through an unprecedented simulcast aimed at preventing P2P piracy. Pundits may think that’s weak, since earlier episodes of had up to 20 million people viewers, […] Read more »

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Earth2Tech writer Jeff St. John chats up Cisco’s smart grid guru Laura Ipsen at our Green:Net 2010 conference last week. Ipsen says Cisco’s expecting the smart grid to be a bigger market opportunity than the Internet. Read more »

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A smart grid powered by the wireless standard WiMAX has made major strides in the U.S. this week. GE announced that it would work on one of the first smart grid pilot programs based on WiMAX in the U.S. with Michigan utility Consumers Energy. At the same time, WiMAX smart meter startup Grid Net announced that networking giant Cisco has taken an equity investment in the company. Read more »

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Liquid Computing, a startup building a unified computing box to help manage the virtualization of the data center, has lost its CEO and investors are winding down the company, showing how hard it is for a systems maker to stay alive and funded in today’s environment. Read more »

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Video is driving the projected increase in both mobile and wired broadband, but it’s not only the proliferation of video that’s the problem for mobile operators, it’s the relative ease that consumers now have accessing it. And that’s causing mobile operators to rethink their pricing plans. Read more »

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Cisco forecasts that by 2014 we will be using 3.6 exabytes per month on mobile networks worldwide, according to its Visual Networking Index figures released today. For those pondering an exabyte, it’s equal to 1 billion gigabytes or half a trillion MP3 files. Read more »

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The FCC plans to make recommendations for how the National Broadband Plan — due to the U.S. Congress on March 17 — should help shape the fledgling smart grid industry. Interested parties have been submitting their comments, including Cisco. Read more »

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Microsoft today finally opened up its cloud platform, Windows Azure, for business. Today the rubber meets the road — and we will soon see how Azure does against larger players such as Amazon and Rackspace, as well as how it affects Microsoft’s margins and other businesses. Read more »

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Thanks to the iPad, expect to see a lot more written about Wi-Fi for a few days. The still unattainable device (you can buy one in late March) is already being credited for bringing back the importance of fixed broadband networks as backhaul for Wi-Fi networks. Read more »

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Juniper and Polycom will deliver products and services to answer the looming threat Cisco plays in the videoconferencing space. But by taking a page from Cisco’s playbook, they may have doomed themselves to failure. Instead of marrying the network and device, they should open things up. Read more »

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YouTube made a bit of noise yesterday with the introduction of a new video player that uses HTML5 standard, which (in theory) could enable browsers to render video without an installed plugin like Adobe’s Flash player. With the largest Flash video site in the universe now […] Read more »

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The world has a lot to teach us about broadband competition, which is why I checked in on the latest customer for Cisco’s data crunching edge router to discover how Swisscom is taking steps to lower its own deployment costs and get fiber to the home. Read more »

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The TM Forum, a standards organization that’s active in the service provider community, is developing standards for cloud best practices and interoperability — a move that could move cloud providers out of the realm of offering cheap infrastructure for startups and into providing enterprise-class services. Read more »

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Cisco has scored its first major customer for its unified computing system in Savvis, a hosting provider that’s building out a computing cloud for enterprise users — the first non-Cisco shop to get behind the UCS servers in a big way. Read more »

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Cisco said today it would up its offer to buy Tandberg to $3.4 billion — a boost of $400 million over its original bid, made last month — and said 40 percent of Tandberg’s shareholders have so far accepted the deal (Cisco needs 90 percent). About two […] Read more »

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First Cisco Systems decided to buy Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg for about $3 billion. This week, Logitech, a Swiss computer peripherals maker, acquired LifeSize, an Austin, Texas-based private company, for about $405 million in cash. The two deals have brought the fast-growing but often-overlooked […] Read more »

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Updated: HP said today that it plans to buy router and switching gear maker 3Com for $2.7 billion — a deal that seeks to put HP on better competitive footing against Cisco and its server efforts. HP and the rest of the computing industry have struggled […] Read more »

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Cisco, EMC and VMware, the trifecta of companies putting their own proprietary stamp on cloud computing for the enterprise, today created a partnership to offer equipment called Vblocks and support a new joint venture called Acadia that will help business customers and service providers build out […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_routers] As ISPs have introduced capped or metered broadband, the one element that’s been missing is the meter. Over at my old hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, columnist Dwight Silverman points out that Comcast’s meter still isn’t ready, but is being tested in the homes of […] Read more »

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In a couple months the $3.4 billion in stimulus funds for smart grid projects will be doled out to about 100 utilities and cities. But the tech vendors — smart meter makers, network software developers, wireless sensor gear companies — will see those funds flow down […] Read more »

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Dell today said it’s agreed to resell gear from Juniper Networks as the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker attempts to fill the networking hole in its product line. It signed a similar agreement with Brocade in August in the face of an onslaught of competition around […] Read more »

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Households worldwide consume 11.4 GB of data per month over their residential broadband connections, with most of that traffic occurring during the peak hours of 9 p.m. through 1 a.m. in local time zones, Cisco  discovered in data it put out today tracking web traffic over […] Read more »

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The rush to deliver the web on the go has led Cisco to offer $2.9 billion for Starent, a telecommunications equipment company whose boxes help manage the different types of traffic traversing mobile and wired networks. The gear is especially important for mobile networks, as they […] Read more »

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