Monthly Archives: March 2009
East Bay Events Calendar: (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
“Tracking South Bay Birds” a talk by Stephanie Ellies of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory at 12:30 p.m. at Oakland Museum of California, 10th and Oak sts., Continue reading
Cisco Pushes Further Into Consumer Territory (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
By buying Flip camera maker Pure Digital, computer networking behemoth Cisco sends another signal it wants to dominate the digital home Continue reading
Sony BDV-E300 (AskMen)
With its latest home cinema offerings (which should drop this June), Sony takes a step ahead of the competition by going past great image and sound to offer a bunch of cool new features. Continue reading
Cisco’s consumer electronics dream (CNET)
The networking giant sees a big opportunity in sales to consumers, and it may surprise some to know the company has actually been in the biz for nearly six years. Continue reading
Cisco Pushes Further Into Consumer Territory (BusinessWeek)
In a recession, the strong get stronger, and the small or weak get eaten. Just a day after news broke that IBM ( IBM ) was in active talks to buy up rival Sun Microsystems ( JAVA ), Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) announced it was snapping up Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the wildly popular Flip line of inexpensive video cameras, for $590 million in stock. Continue reading