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Cisco pitches square against Symantec, McAfee, and packet shaping vendors

Cisco quietly made a couple of product releases recently that pitches it square against established competitors in the field, including Symantec and McAfee. Cisco's Application Performance Assurance (APA) Network Module NME-APA-E3 2.0 adds Layer 7 packet shaping, while the latest version (6.0) of its Cisco Security Agent (CSA) adds an antivirus and data leakage prevention client. Cisco CSA security client runs on Windows, Linux, and Solaris - both servers and desktops. As for APA, Cisco claims APA can control more than 1,000 applications and report on its findings with 100-plus built-in reporting templates. Read more about APA and CSA at Jamey Heary's blog. 

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  • Consumers trust PayPal more than traditional banks Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Tue, 09/30/2008

    Baby boomers trust their money with alternate payment providers, such as PayPal, more than bricks and mortar banks. According to a recent survey by Cisco of 1,500 consumers between the ages of 18 and 65-plus, consumers believe non-banks can provide at-par (if not better) payment facilities than conventional banks. Consumers were also frustrated at bricks and mortar stores with complaints ranging from the checkout process taking too long, items being out of stock, and the inability to find the items they wanted. It sounds like the Internet has turned us into spoilt citizens.

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  • Nokia exits corporate mobile e-mail business; sends customers to Microsoft, Cisco Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Tue, 09/30/2008

    Nokia has thrown in the enterprise mobile e-mail towel and instead will work with Microsoft and Cisco to combine the mobile company's devices and applications with mobile software from Microsoft and Cisco, says Nokia. Nokia also says it is in the advanced stages of talks for the potential sale of its security appliances business to a financial investor. The company said the moves would enable it to focus on consumer Internet services.

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  • Creeped out by Cisco's hologram telepresence Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Mon, 09/29/2008

    It's one thing having telepresence making it seem that the people you're in a meeting with are sitting opposite you but what Cisco CEO John Chambers demonstrated on stage is rather creepy. Take a look at this video of Chambers on stage speaking with a life-size 'hologram' of Marthin De Beer, head of Cisco’s emerging technologies unit as they both stood 'face-to-face'.

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