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According to the Patent Examiner, a company called Innovatio IP Ventures is suing individual branches of hotel chains for use of Wi-Fi. Though I'm staunchly against software patents – and

Lots of memories of my computing past flooding through me this morning, and no, this won't be another Jobs tribute. But a post yesterday talking about whether you were using

Cisco announced today that collaboration tools vendor Versly.com is now part of its ever-growing family. Versly hasn't yet had a real product, but you can apply for a chance to

More trouble for Cisco: Ars Technica is writing a damning piece, written by Ian Mulgrew, on how Cisco may have abused the legal system to unjustly punish a former

Yesterday Cisco announced that it will lay off 6,500 employees and sell a manufacturing plant in Juarez, Mexico to Foxconn to shave off an additional 5,000 employees. This follows

Enterprise software tools vendor Solarwinds has announced new versions of several of its products to help enterprise virtualization and network admins better manage their networks. All are available now.

This week Cisco released one of the first business apps designed specifically for the iPad 2: WebEx for iPad 2. Also, Smartsheet launched its first iPad app and VMware

Although enterprise video adoption is slow, several platforms are competing to bring the simple video sharing experience of services like YouTube to business users. Here's a look at five of

Cisco released its 2010 Annual Security Report yesterday. The report covers criminals' slow shift from targeting Windows PCs to targeting other operating systems and devices, the importance of exploiting

CRM and social CRM expert Paul Greenberg finished posting his CRM 2011 Watchlist series this week. It's six parts totaling more than 35,000 words. It's a much more detailed

Microsoft's debuted its unified communications platform Lync at a news conference today. Lync will go on sale December 1. Several big name companies like Boeing, Estee Lauder, France Telecom,

VCCircle reports that Salesforce.com is close to acquiring India based web conferencing vendor Dimdim. Salesforce.com and Dimdim both declined to comment. Web conferencing would fit nicely into Chatter, Salesforce.com's

Cisco announced today its first social CRM tool SocialMiner, along with a "customer care" desktop application called Cisco Finesse. SocialMiner is designed not just to help marketers track customer

Not long ago, video conferencing was science fiction - now it's a key part of many enterprises' communication strategy. According to a survey conducted by LifeSize, 51% of mid-sized

The Internet of Things took a step closer to mainstream adoption today with the announcement of Pachube's first enterprise offering. Pachube (pronounced "patch bay") shares real-time sensor data and

The end of Google Wave and rumors that the company is building a Facebook competitor has a lot of people talking about Google's need to get better at social.

Unfortunately, we couldn't be at Black Hat and Defcon in Las Vegas this week, but here's our round-up of highlights from the two security events from around the web.

In Cisco's Mid-Year Security Report, the company cites research finding that 50% of end users admitted to accessing social media tools at work, in spite of company rules, at

Cisco announced today the Cius, an Android-based seven-inch tablet computer aimed at the enterprise. The device will feature both front and rear-facing cameras, Cisco TelePresence-compatible video conferencing and access to

Radvision's Tsahi Levent-Levi, writing for No Jitter, sums up the obstacles for widespread telepresence use in the enterprise: "It costs so much to purchase such a system and make

Cisco announced this week at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas that it is fulfilling its promise to adopt its own Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP). The protocol will enable

According to a new study, enterprises continue to deploy social networking tools at an increasing pace. At the same time, though, this Cisco-sponsored study also found that a surprisingly small

iPhones are becoming a standard in the enterprise. And with the the iPhones, we are seeing a number of applications for a variety of different uses. The latest is an

Hewlett-Packard will acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion to compete more effectively against Cisco Systems in the competitive computer networking market. The deal, announced this afternoon, appears on the surface to