Over the years Cisco has been known as the giant in the networking space and most recently in the videoconferencing market, which the company celebrated its 5th anniversary in October. They were once the world’s most valuable company with a market cap of $550 billion, which is now just below $100 billion. After the dot.com ...

Fresh off rumors of licensing the Kinect to television hardware manufacturers, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will give interested companies a licensing deal to its enterprise systems protocols to develop apps for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. One such company is Agreeya Mobility, a subsidiary of Agreeya Solutions, which works with Asian device manufacturers, ...

Riding with the recent Yahoo and HP CEO firing spree, RIM’s Canadian investor Jaguar Financial Corporation is calling for major changes in the BlackBerry maker’s governance. Jaguar Financial, which announced that it had the backing of shareholders that represent 8 percent of RIM’s shares, is advising the Waterloo, Ontario-based company to hire a new chief ...

Are you itching to get married but your bride or groom is on another physical location? Or do you want to take advantage of the same-sex marriage law of a certain state without having to be physically there? Your wish may one day come true, as two Michigan State University law professors, Mae Kuykendall and ...

Just a month ago, IBM acquired security intelligence analytics company i2 to bolster its business analytics together with crime and fraud prevention. And now, IBM is adding another security intelligence software with the acquisition of privately-held company Q1 Labs. Just like i2, Q1 Labs’ financial terms were also not disclosed. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company will ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) can now breathe a little easy as shares of the company were up more than 6 percent on Tuesday, when rumors of activist investor Carl Icahn taking a stake with the struggling handset manufacturer broke out. Shares in the wireless device maker jumped as much as 7 percent on ...

Apple finally confirmed the much rumored Oct. 4 event, as it handed out its official invitations to selected guests today.  The event will be held at Apple’s Cupertino campus on Tuesday, 10am PST and will be spearheaded by new CEO Tim Cook. The invitation from Apple consists of four icons and a quote: “Let’s talk ...

HelloWallet, an online financial guidance company, recently partnered with employee benefits providers that serve more than 7 million workers in the United States.  Since launching in May, the company now has over 200,000 memberships sold to Fortune 500 enterprise customers. HelloWallet’s application helps workers manage their financial life and provides personalized financial guidance to help ...

PostgreSQL, an open source database management system, got pumped up today with the released of version 9.1.  The latest community edition release aims to compete at the enterprise level and confidently goes head-to-head with the likes of MySQL, Oracle’s 11g databases, IBM’s DB2, and Microsoft’s SQL Server database. Just last month, EnterpriseDB, the company that ...

Microsoft will have a big day ahead as it prepares for the Build 2011 developer conference, running Sept. 13-16 in Anaheim, California.  The event will showcase Microsoft’s latest version of its operating system—Windows 8.  The new OS is Microsoft’s latest bet in the ever-growing mobile industry, which is currently dominated by Apple’s iOS and Google’s ...